just wondering how many of you started off with prodo?

[bigj402]

just wondering how many of you started off with prodo?And how long did it take to make the transistion from prodo to making tube encasments and stuff like that.also I think its funny how ppl can make phat ass headies but cant make an insideout piece worth a darn.:bouncy:

[somberbear]

I started out with the basics.....

I made trash for about 6 months...... then prodo , and still cant make headies , i just keep working and working.... and i slowly escape in to differnt things when my prodo pays for enough time to play.......

Its all production ..... even headies turn into production at some point......

get used to it...

i make up peices for myself mainly cause i wanna do it , then when they sell i factor in the time it took to make em....

I will say i have seen a whole lotta people trying to make "headies" all day long but there fundementals are crap so it never turns out clean and nice like they should be.

Also you need to figure out what headie means.... a true definiction while talking to me a headie is just something that shows personal style with clean lines in that style form and function that is as good and complicated as the glass artist can make them.

peace
rob

[Ninja fire]

I started with prodo, left it alone and came back to it...
I'm very cheap with my color and unless the price is
right I refuse to stack...

[pacosaki]

I started with marbles.

[mer]

I started with marbles.

me too. now i start every day with prodo and finish with marbles.

[Merlin]

I did. first little marbles and clear spoons for a week, then fumed w+r, then color w+r, then two piecers, then techniques and sections.

[bigj402]

cool was just wondering I love glass im never gonna quit unless im 6 feet under cant wait to see whats ahead for me.

[Wierdeer]

strait up prodo for like five years some hot shop stuff before that and now I only do prodo when I need to mostly trying to refine my headie skillz 6 to 7 years and I still feel like a newbee just somany techs out there and ideas are endless therefor I just try to not let my head swell and keep movin forward. boro fiend forever, dave

[yinzer]

yeah, im a prodo princess.

[garrick]

prodo for 7 years. i make 3 or 4 nice pieces a year if im lucky

[The Glass Fish]

I think in a sense, we all start with prodo. What we do is expensive. And craftsmanship takes time. If we didn't make lots of sellable objects none of us would ever afford to get really good at it (makin' headies). Trust me, no one just jumps into the glassworld making only headies. I started as a lampworker. Made a little turtle for my first piece. "O.K. now make 100" was the mentality. I make nice stuff from time to time, but mostly prodo. Been on the torch ten years now. Never done a stickstack. Who knows when you get good. I still make trash pieces ocassionally.

[petto]

On the torch since 99'. Started making prodo and made alot of it. Last couple years started doing some nicer stuff. So busy now not much time to have fun but thinking this next year I will have time to branch out a little more. I too still occasional make trash pieces. I think if you never make a trash piece you are not trying hard enough or pushing your boundaries.

[wahoo]

Jesus it is nice to read those last three posts. I will lump myself in with them. I the past I have had a one gallery show of mostly non-functional art. And one to three times a year I make a few headdies for a festivals. Other than that I I'm making money to feed the family and pay the mortgage.

[JANKYglass]

fuck headdies. anyone can make a heaadie, making 50 spoons in a day is were its at.

[Big Jay]

I think in a sense, we all start with prodo. What we do is expensive.

I just wanted to do marbles and sculptureral. Maestro is pimping me out though and now I am a glass whore. If you wanna pay for it and its in my skill range I'm in. I gotta pay for this equipment somehow.

[bigj402]

sweet just wanted to see how some of you got your start me on the other hand just had a video and a cutting torch no kiln or venalation or the right glass's and found all my tool's from stuff around the house and just started to rage and did that for about 2 years then I was finnaly invited to a local shop to rage for about a year and then to another shop after that now im in my basment raging and loving it. prodo rocks.

[mistahead]

i started off making 127 section headdies, but that was my prodo soooooo......