How old are you and how long have you been blowing glass?

[Dom]

Just curious, Im 22 and been at this for a little over 2 years.

[skip]

67 and 33 but i might of lost count.

[Chubbles]

23 years old, and 3 years

[blazemaster83]

24 years of age, been at this for about a year and a half so far...

[slinger]

33 Years old.

Blowing glass for a living for 11 years.

[cleocool]

20 - almost a year lol

[Mark F]

33 and been on the torch for 11 years.

[massvegas]

25 and blowin for about 5years , maybe 6.

woot woot ,

[lava flow]

24, made my first pendant when I was 18, haven't worked for the man since January '07

[kbinkster]

Thirty-something - flameworking going on 6 years, glassworking for 18.

[Gibsons Glassworks]

im 21 been on the torch since i was 18, mayb 2 years fulltime, im a young buck watch out you Wilie veterans

[Brian Newman]

38, and 15.

[gotglass?]

42 and 8

[jr23]

33 and 3.5 damn I need more practice.

[bc]

35 yrs old
8 years

[Steve Sizelove]

34 years old. 13 on the torch.

[Pyroglasstic]

52 and 6

[Ben 'Spice' Crowley]

21 and 10 months

[cillanes]

49 been blowing glass since 88 torch work the last 8 years

[MUPH]

21, part-time for 2-3

[seejee]

33 years old. first fired up a torch 8 years ago and have been paying the rent with glass for the last 7

[fashon kore]

18, and i've been melting for 2 years now.

[The Lorax]

just turned 20 at the end of june... and have been toying with boro a little over a year.

started playing with soft glass in the fall of 05... did it for about 6 months... played with boro for 2 weeks... went to college and did soft glass there for a few months (2 or 3 hahaha) then came home and have had my boro setup up and running since april 07

[Micah Evans]

32 years old with 8 behind the torch

[dislexei]

Been messing with glass and fire for the past 5 years. On the torch for the past two. I'm 26. I do it as a hobby now.

[brettodie]

36 had the flame on fulltime for 13 yrs now...

[Udai Hussien]

12and 6, you decide the difference,

[Big Jay]

http://www.thegldg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16268

[Icarus]

27 and a little shy of a year.

[Udai Hussien]

http://www.thegldg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16268OH YEAH!?!?!?!?!?!



fuck you, Im trashed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyrSMkGogUE&eurl=http://forums.fugly.com/showthread.php?p=169441&posted=1

[Udai Hussien]

P.S, if you don't know who rick flair and the four horsemen are, just kill yourself

[mer]

i was born yesterday but i stayed up all night on the torch.

actually 40/9

[Greymatter Glass]

72/64

[Udai Hussien]

72/64
OOOHHH you dirty bastard, I know you are 2 years older than me!!!!!!


you owe e a case of simax 25/4

[yinzer]

i add 7 years for each kid so that would put me at 40, part time-almost 3 years

[3 rip min]

35 been on the torch since 96.

[murf]

50 and 1

[JLF]

22 and 10 months part-time , SCC Scientific Student.

[sunray]

72/64
72..?? LOL met you at GAS and you didn't look as old as me!!!

[Lurch]

29 with 8 years behind the torch (fulltime)

[glass_noob]

19 and almost two years

[budman8778]

just about to turn 21, made my first marble a lil over a year ago at puffdanny's. Worked the glory hole for about 2 years before the flameworking began...

[Ben Burton Glass]

27 years old, and 9.5 years on the torch.

808 Beez-nitches!!!

aloha

[The Glass Fish]

33 and 11. Wow, that is officially 1/3 of my life.

[Glass Pyro]

28 and 4 months or so torchin with boro.

about 7 years playing with kiln slumping,fusing and blowing soft glass on a red max at a cold shop.

[andrew brown]

31 and 8

[Mac Maestro]

I am the most significant glass maker in American Glassmaking history. ;) lol

32/12

[Conchis]

And I am the least significant. 59 and 3 years on the torch

[chayes]

29 and 8 years at the torch

[colonel4bin]

28 and 7 years....

[phab]

...old enough to remember when hospitals had cigarette machines. id have to look back at reciepts but i think i took my first class in summer of '01. could have been 02.

[Greymatter Glass]

72..?? LOL met you at GAS and you didn't look as old as me!!!

Damn, did I say 72?

I meant 29/8 off-and-on tho, more like 6....

-Doug

[VED]

23 and just about 9 months behind the torch.

[Mike Glass]

47 and 3 months under my belt!

[Blacksheep]

47 around 4 months workin time on the torch
hey Mike glad im not the only crazy old dude :)

[The Glass Fish]

hey blacksheep, congrats of your 420 post.

[michaeL25]

hey blacksheep, congrats of your 420 post.


cheers to that!

25 and .2

[Blacksheep]

[QUOTE=The Glass Fish;334144]hey blacksheep, congrats of your 420 post.[/QUOTE


kewl thanks didnt notice i do believe ill go celebrate that right now ;)

[nafglass]

22 and five years since I started but always part time. So, more like 3.

[CCody]

32 years young
got my first torch in 2000.... so 8 years

looking forward to 50 more years of this!
christina cody

[Royal]

almost 28years old, started in 2000 full time since 2004.

[newmexicomagma]

24 and 5

[Ben Burton Glass]

32 years young
got my first torch in 2000.... so 8 years

looking forward to 50 more years of this!
christina cody

Yeah Girl! That's what I'm screaming about!!! Turning the fingers fall off!!!

Aloha!

[Mike Glass]

kewl thanks didnt notice i do believe ill go celebrate that right now ;)[/QUOTE]

Flame on old dude!:D

[jethro]

30 and a lil over 1

[jahglass]

24 yrs old. blowing glass for about 8 yrs (full time for the past year or so)

[CripSkillz]

33 and 1 1/2 yrs, 2 -3 day a week for 1 - 3 hrs each time hehehe weeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Rojas]

31 yrs old, 11 yrs flameworking and lovin it.

[tilman]

35 and 5, but not always full time.

[LewisW]

59 years old. Working at torch for 36 years. Started in Spring of 1973-learned from Creative Glassblowing book. October 1973 worked three months at Disney Wold with Arribas brothers. On my own full time from jan 20, 1974.

[Ubatuba]

I will be 26 in a couple of days, and have been doing both furnace and flameworking for 8 years. 6 years since I opened my business for full time action

[Swampy]

55 in October.

Working with glass in various forms since about '92; kilnformed, gilding, engraving, traditional stained glass painting, serious torchworking for the last three years or so.

Some of what's created on the torch is used in other work. Wish I'd found this amazing technique of working glass earlier, to that end I try to introduce and educate as many folks as seem to have the ability to comprehend.

[gypsea]

49 this month. started late 70's, full time with "the lost art" for a couple of years. 20 yr hiatus because someone suggested i get a "real job" with insurance & dependable income for my kids, & i had to admit they had a point.

missed glass the whole time to the point of dreaming about it so intensely that i couldn't wait to go to sleep at night so i could have a glassblowing dream. decided i was borderline obsessive so took out a home equity loan & set my shop back up 2001.

did it part time til i just quit my "real job" completely 2 years ago when they wouldn't let me have time off to go to agi & some shows...told them i'd call when i got back...but just never did. oops.

[Glass Pyro]

I like your attitude gypsea. And Lewis how in the heck do you remember to the day when you started?

[njsjr]

27, & about 5 on the torch

[steven p selchow]

Started Jan. 1 new years day 1975...so thats 33 1/2 years...32 years making a living at it with a year off to think about it in 1978. 52 years old, so thats a long fucking time, but I wouldn't trade my love of it for 3rd shift at Dennys.

steve

[amezcuaglass]

31 years old- started in spring of 1996. Went full time in '97.
Till my fingers won't spin anymore!

[melter skelter]

ive been getting melted since '97 and never looked back

33 and 11

[VinE]

31- started playing with glass in '99 - full time since '01.

31 and 7? I guess

[Islandglass Man]

60 / 40 scientific glassblowing pays the bills art glass keeps me alive.

Bear

[FiredDesires]

59, glass for 28yrs, torching for 11

[broken glass]

30 and 8 spent time working with boroscilica glass tube and rod, and colored glass boroscilica tube and rod, and gong fittings, and graffite, and ceramic blanket, and asbestos plugs, and foot pedals, and tourches, (gtt, gtt, gtt, nortel, national, national, bethlehem), kilns, lathe, paperwork, reversals, rattis, inside out, fume, marbles, tubes, multichambered tubes, color worked this that and everything, getting stiffed by store owners, getting undercut more derections than one can turn, getting a product i made for 3-5 years made in china ( i guess imitation is the gretest form of flattery, haha no royalties ), cancerous white blanket, blue kevlar like shit, little vernilation to more ventilation, one shak, to a thou sq ft, with a few booths, working full days, sacraficing life experiences to try to make a couple bucks that are ever eluding me as allways, a Workaholic, who sadly realizes that there is no place for a hard working labor. It is a business, that i am tired of. ready to go to the hills with guns to hunt and grow things for survival. Bored of my last 8 years. Tired of society. Sick of life.

[HaulAss]

24 blew glass from 19-23, taken a break for the past year or so.. trying to get back into it..

[Glass Pyro]

Broken Glass, I feel you brother. I am also tired of society and made the move out to the woods away from the normal day to day bs. I work of course but when I come home it is all good.

Move before you go crazy, downsize and live simpler. That is what I did and I love it, maybe not practical but what is?

To me living in a town home for 120,000 dollars is freakin crazy but some think it is practical.

Good luck Broken Glass, change something for your soul.

[Mizzerat]

25 and a few months on the torch

[jane clifton]

50 and flameworking as long as Kristian has been at his new location (can't remember how long thats been). Started in stained glass 12 years ago then started melting glass in 98, been melting ever since in one form or another. Opened Glassblowing Studio last year and quit the show circuit. I have to go to work every day and blow glass, oh darn.

Jane

[dirtyglass]

24, at it for 6. but running a business only allows me to torch a few days a week.

[Skye Perry]

I am 32 years young and have been into glass art since I was 5 and have been creating it full time for 7 years.

[Mac Maestro]

I have repped you ALL for being active torch monkeys. Keep it hot!!







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[lsw]

I am 27 and been torchin for bout 7yrs and 2-3 yrs of furnace work.

[Sebastian]

35. for a living since '95.

[kbinkster]

I have repped you ALL for being active torch monkeys. Keep it hot!!







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Thanks, Maestro!:blowkiss:

[FiredDesires]

Ditto on what Binkster said Maestro! :blowkiss:

[Know Ego]

Whoaaaaaa!

There is a huge scale of experience on this forum. I love this art form, through thick and thin.

I'm 29 and have been working full-time now over 10 years.

[phab]

...yes, thanks maestro!

[Dom]

Whoaaaaaa!

There is a huge scale of experience on this forum. I love this art form, through thick and thin.

I'm 29 and have been working full-time now over 10 years.

For sure, the results were interesting. Seems alot of people started around 20 years old.

Alot of old schoolers are older than I though and alot of poeple are alot younger than I thought.

[Doc Holliday]

Im 23 yrs old, been working for 4 years give or take a fwe months

[The Lorax]

For sure, the results were interesting. Seems alot of people started around 20 years old.

Alot of old schoolers are older than I though and alot of poeple are alot younger than I thought.

yea pretty interesting... i figured most would start around 25.
this thread in nice and motivational though... seeing how old most are and how sick the stuff you make already is.

[Ro's Glass World]

I will be 43 in october and have been working glass for 5 years.
Ro

[blackstoneglass]

I feel old now because I just had to read through this thread to make sure I didnt post already lol. 38 and 20 / 13 for lampworking

[J Howard]

33 glass for 11

[David Sandidge]

44 and 29.

[Alfred]

43yrs old. Torching boro for @20yrs,pipes for @15yrs

[Dom]

44 and 29.

15 years old when you started? Wow, how did you get into it?

[David Sandidge]

I went to work as a child laborer in a sweat shop in Virginia. This was way before the child labor sweat shops moved to China.

[Alfred]

David ,you started at the Baron under their "apprenticeship" program didn't you?

[Jeremy D.N.]

4 yrs at the torch, not even 18 yet

[3 rip min]

4 yrs at the torch, not even 18 yet
now were talking.. good for you, bud..

[David Sandidge]

Hey Alfred,
I started as a non-paid apprentice. I worked for a month everyday after school learning how to make running stitch birdbaths. After that they paid me $3.10 an hour. That's not much more than workers in China are earning today. After that I began making loop stitch pianos which is pretty much all I made until after I finished high school. You know about those birdbaths don't you Alfred? I think they paid you though didn't they?

[J Howard]

sometimes i thank the lord that i've never loop stitched a thing in my life

[bufbubba]

28 been on the torch for about 7 months

[kbinkster]

sometimes i thank the lord that i've never loop stitched a thing in my life

Oddly, that is one of the things I want to learn to do - just to be able to do it.

[J Howard]

it's probably addicting... that's the thing. i haven't tried crack either

[CripSkillz]

Crack is the best, I eat it whenever i can so long as it smells good and has minimal hair..

[Alfred]

Yea, I know about birdbaths lol,and yea I was getting paid,not great ,but better than $3.10,got $5.25/hr with $.25 quarterly raise vs piece work rate of $7.25/piecework hr.Worked out on a good day to around $.25 per birdbath.It's been awhile since I did any running stitch,my stitchwork has gone to crap.

[n3rd]

25 and almost 2 years behind the torch. :)

[FredLight]

36, been working glass for 8 years, 4 years with boro.

[Hunter]

25 in for three

still spinnin' and grinnin'.