You Tube - The largest ship

[cc_bob]

I know most of you don't do any spun/lace/stitch work, but this is pretty sweet. Even doing this in sections woud be very difficult. I wish he had some close ups.

I've tried to make some larger ships the biggest being maybe an 1/8th this size and not this complicated. It was a bitch and I was not happy with it. The bigger the piece gets, the worse my stitches get.

The base is massive, makes me whonder if he stitched it all with a hand torch. I see a CC in one of the pics but I couldn't imagine maneuvering the hull and base around it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMN-q0kGZe4

[Turbanator]

ive seen this video also i believe he said he made all the he could with the cc and then him and his buddy used two gtt hand torches for the rest.

[Udai Hussien]

how come the last picture has a date stamp of 2008 on it? I thought he made those ships in the 70's?

[CripSkillz]

probably took pics of the old pics with the new digi cam duhhh..

[steven p selchow]

I use to put these together in the 70's. The hull was made in Mexico, and we had to make the anchor and attach it to the base without a kiln to work with. My friend did the masts, and I attached the poles and all the rigging.

I did a 4 foot high ship in 1978-79 and my sister-in-law climbed through my window when she was drunk and knocked it off the table. It took me a long time to get over that one. Looking back on it, the only reason I did one that big was I had enough confidence after putting together 4 or 5 of those other ones, they were about 3 feet high, so I had to top that. I had only been doing glass for 3 years when I made that one, so it was pretty crappy, but impressive back then.

steve

[Greymatter Glass]

yeah dude.

I made a 12 footer last night when I was drunk.

Steve's sister-in-law knocked it over tho..... what's her problem bro?

[steven p selchow]

she gets around don't she

by the way, I can still do a pretty good stitched one, I have one here in my showcase, a smaller version. I did quite a few of the old viking style ships with the dragon heads on the bow and the tail off the stern

[puddletown]

yeah but the question is...

Can you put one in a coke bottle?

[Greymatter Glass]

*zing*

[CripSkillz]

How could you build anything in a coke bottle thoes things are smalll only hole like 2 grams, how ya gona build a ship in that,


OHH you mean cocola bottle oh i get it heheheheh

[somewhere]

I got a laugh from Turbanator's comment about the gtt's.

The music made those pictures!

[themoch]

god i hope the coke bottle is a sinbad reference. cuz that would be a ZING.

[Greymatter Glass]

Andrew Moch - Master of the Obvious

[themoch]

true story, about 3 years ago for Halloween i was Capt. Obvious... it was Obviously awesome.