Glass blowing urban legends?

[Adapt]

I was wondering if anyone has ever heard any glass oriented urban legends. It came up today in a discussion and I thought this would be a good place to ask. So if you have any, let's hear them!

[cc_bob]

Nomad... LOL

[ALIEN!]

Lmao Bob. Well, I remember reading a story on the blackboard that sounded at least a little more than 100% true. This is how it went, some guy thought he'd impress 3 chicks with his "mad glass skills" and does some sort of demonstration. So there he is, working some gather on a rod, not paying attention, babbling whatever, and gets his gather white hot then porceeds to let it drip off the rod where it falls on his inner thigh and magically burns right through his leg, hitting the main artery, spraying blood all over the place. I don't remember if the girls got hit by the spray, but they were apparently freaked out and unimpressed anyway. Great story, but obviously sounds just a little far fetched. Perhaps "based on a true story"

[Braden Hammond]

Nomad... LOL


he he he Nomad = Legend:twitch:

[EarthTones]

While not 100% "urban","Sinbad & the glassblowers of the Carribean" is one of my favorite glass legends. Waaaaaaaay too long a story to tell in a thread,but it is a great,epic tale for all ages.Captain Jack Sparrow & Sinbad collab on a super sick 20ft.,1,000 section glass castle bubbler headdie tube ,that would make Deppe & Smiley look like amatures,while onboard the Black Pearl sailing around the Carribean, fighting other pirates & mythical creatures while in search of the fabled Eugenies. Also his seven voyages of glassblowing series shouldn't be missed,check those out on Youtube.com,he flame anneals a Mexican made glass dragon he picked up at a Miami gas station & shit.

[MUPH]

Link?

[steven p selchow]

Legend of early american glassblowing in the seventies.

Make 10 pianos..take a "C" break...C meaning Columbian...we had the good shit back then.

Make 10 birdbaths...take another C break.

Tim Billie was our leader, he took the guy who taught us spun glass on a U.S. tour of all the fairs around the country, Tim made the glass, Ken sold it at carnivals. Ken couldn't make glass anymore because he shook to much from drinking.

Tim hooks up with a chick on the road, and splits leaving Ken in the middle of no where with no money, he finds his way back to his home in Canada and dies from some disease, probably his liver.

Life of a glassblower in the seventies...of course, I took a different path...to be continued.

steve

[Udai Hussien]

I was wondering if anyone has ever heard any glass oriented urban legends. It came up today in a discussion and I thought this would be a good place to ask. So if you have any, let's hear them!
Sinbad and Nomad do a collab together, and the world stops rotating!

[Lurch]

I bet if Sinbad and Nomad were to collab today. All news would stop, until there was new news of what was going on in the collab. I mean even Isreal and Palestine would stop just to see what Sinbad and Nomad were doing next...

[Ubatuba]

Dude, glassblowing will cut your life span in half. Didn't you know???

[Squirrel]

Tipple Blown

[chayes]

Glassblowing is easy.

[spano]

Glassblowing is easy.


That and when kids ask me if my bowls are "double blown" or "triple blown" I usually just say yes, unless its a friend, then I try to explain...

[PyroChixRock]

We grow the mushrooms that are in the glass, inside the kiln. It takes over a week...man.

:rollin

[MUPH]

We grow the mushrooms that are in the glass, inside the kiln. It takes over a week...man

Then you can eat them

[flamebob]

Lampworkers are rich

[Udai Hussien]

We grow the mushrooms that are in the glass, inside the kiln. It takes over a week...man.

:rollinyeah I love that one "naw man, that's a REAL shroom there in the glass!!!"

Yeah Einstein, everyone knows how mushrooms are heat resistant

[EarthTones]

Urine encasements?:dieslaugh

[phab]

...urban legends....

craig bellinger

supelworld the punty master

oh, and nomads got a new piece coming up that will make the list. hes gonna encase a stick of TNT.

[chayes]

craig bellinger

hahahahahahahahaha

[Squirrel]

encase a stick of TNT.

hahaha this made me laugh

[chayes]

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

[mer]

glass is a slow moving liquid, that's why old windows have ripples going down them.

[bzglass]

I make $100,000 a year blowing glass, cause I make like $300.00 dollars a day, easy.

Thats coming from the kids who don't have to buy any tubing, color, propane, oxygen, gold/silver, electricty, shop rent, postage, gas for sales trips, etc. etc. etc.

[Lurch]

I make $100,000 a year blowing glass, cause I make like $300.00 dollars a day, easy.

Thats coming from the kids who don't have to buy any tubing, color, propane, oxygen, gold/silver, electricty, shop rent, postage, gas for sales trips, etc. etc. etc.

damn right.

[cc_bob]

glass is a slow moving liquid, that's why old windows have ripples going down them.

That's a good one. I had someone tell me once that they wanted to flip the windows in their old house because they were worried the top would get too thin from slowly moving the last 100 some years. I explained to them that they were that way due to the way they made them but they insisted I was wrong.

[Mecha]

Sinbad gets $600 a tube.

Sinbad drives a porsche.

Sinbad has a segway.

Um, pretty much anything Sinbad has ever said....

[menty666]

Lmao Bob. Well, I remember reading a story on the blackboard that sounded at least a little more than 100% true. This is how it went, some guy thought he'd impress 3 chicks with his "mad glass skills" and does some sort of demonstration. So there he is, working some gather on a rod, not paying attention, babbling whatever, and gets his gather white hot then porceeds to let it drip off the rod where it falls on his inner thigh and magically burns right through his leg, hitting the main artery, spraying blood all over the place. I don't remember if the girls got hit by the spray, but they were apparently freaked out and unimpressed anyway. Great story, but obviously sounds just a little far fetched. Perhaps "based on a true story"

See, the way I heard it from a friend of a blower's friend's friend was that the gather cauterized the wound as it flame cut his leg off and he simply finished the piece then went out to buy the 3 chicks the surf and turf that night and they rewarded him appropriately. Of course when he was telling the story to this remote acquaintance, he started off his tale with "I never thought this would happen to me, but here I an writing...."

[Din]

And right as she put her work in the kiln, she realized that the calls were coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!

[Meta Glass]

if you look reallly realllly realllllllllllllllly close at the glass alchemy logo
theres a guy in it roastin a bowl




and also

in the freeman corbin vids theres interspersed frames of german beast porn
look up the wiki

[ALIEN!]

See, the way I heard it from a friend of a blower's friend's friend was that the gather cauterized the wound as it flame cut his leg off and he simply finished the piece then went out to buy the 3 chicks the surf and turf that night and they rewarded him appropriately. Of course when he was telling the story to this remote acquaintance, he started off his tale with "I never thought this would happen to me, but here I an writing...."

Like I said, was on the old blackboard. Could've been written by Gomad for all I know. Cauterizing would make the story believable. Nothing could make it anything but hilarious though. Of course I have one of them sick sadistic senses of humor. I don't know why I laugh at these things. The disturbing part is when I laugh at my own injuries. Like this one time at work, I squashed the insides of the end of my right pinky out.Looked like guts. (got smashed under two 24' bars of 4" Stainless Steel Channel) Anyway, I knew I would have to test for the company :chilling: if I reported it and went to the clinic so I said fuck it. Well another worker saw me laughing and flicking the guts with my other hand (the guts were numb, couldnt feel nuttin) and told the boss. So of course off to the clinic I had to go, tinky test and all, which naturally made things worse for me. Anyway, I wear gloves now around steel racks.

[Zed]

Glass injury urban legends? I remember hearing a long ass time ago like maybe 1996 or so about a flameworker that was killed by his bad technique. The story was that a thin glass stringer stuck him in his wrist somewhere, but the stringer rather unluckily speared into a vein. The thin ass stringer broke off in his vein and traveled up to his heart where it punched a bunch of holes and the guy died.

I always thought this story was bullshit but I guess it *could* happen... making dangerous super thin stringers is bad technique anyways.

One injury I can confirm is that Gigi Hoyt (Homer's daughter) put a broken piece of 19mm rod completely through her hand while unloading a case with a broken piece in it at Glasscraft.


I once had a weird ass vacuum thing happen when making a hollow piece with lots of bends and constrictions. I guess some unburned fuel was sitting inside the piece and it combusted right as I was putting the blowtube into my mouth. POP! the gas burned through the hollow piece and created a vacuum that sucked some air right out of my lungs, or at least thats how it felt. Scared the shit out of me, I thought I had really fucked myself up for a minute. Turns out I was fine.

I wish I liked blowhoses better, as I really think they are a much safer way to flamework.

[Adapt]

Nice. I'll have to add these to my brain library of urban legends.

Zed, I've never heard of the death injury you're talking about, but some massage therapists that I know told me that there's a bone in that pit under and behind your ear that can be easily broken. Once that bone breaks it floats up to your brain and kills you in about a day. Stuff like that freaks me out man.

[Diggy]

That's a good one. I had someone tell me once that they wanted to flip the windows in their old house because they were worried the top would get too thin from slowly moving the last 100 some years. I explained to them that they were that way due to the way they made them but they insisted I was wrong.

I would've encouraged 'em, even given an example of how this happened to someone that I knew and that they shouldn't wait any longer.

(i'm still trying to figure the "reply with quote" thing, as I am new to using forums)

[Aymie]

I once heard this story about some chick named Kirsten Yinzer or something who blew glass and could put a whole PBR can in her mouth...but then I also heard that she didn't really blow glass and the PBR can thing was done by some chick named Sassy so who knows.

[Michael]

Tipple Blown

Classic!

[Aymie]

I had to explain to a head shop owner here in Austin about the double/triple blown thing...another female glassblower here in town had told him ALL her stuff was double and triple blown.

[Michael]

Some one on here was explaining the double/triple blown once. Not sure exactly
how it went but it had to do w/ one or two girls under the bench while working! That was the only reasonable explaination I had ever heard-

[Icarus]

Some one on here was explaining the double/triple blown once. Not sure exactly
how it went but it had to do w/ one or two girls under the bench while working! That was the only reasonable explaination I had ever heard-

Owww, wouldn't they get little shards of glass in their knees? Well, i guess it would be a good reason to keep your work area clean.

[steven p selchow]

RexTrimm is as urban as it gets. He once had lunch with Elvis at a burger king in Memphis, maybe it was a 7-eleven, or a eight-7.

[Abe Fleishman]

Color glass urban legends. That the old MOSS was made with dirty step children and when the police started looking in to it Northstar Glass, we had to stop production but when the fuzz is not on there game we produce a few batchs.LOL

No but really here is the real one. The og Moss was made with Green Dwarf and when corning ran out we had to stop making it. But the real color was the brown. And yes it is gone and we are looking into some other options.
Abe

[Udai Hussien]

Lmao Bob. Well, I remember reading a story on the blackboard that sounded at least a little more than 100% true. This is how it went, some guy thought he'd impress 3 chicks with his "mad glass skills" and does some sort of demonstration. So there he is, working some gather on a rod, not paying attention, babbling whatever, and gets his gather white hot then porceeds to let it drip off the rod where it falls on his inner thigh and magically burns right through his leg, hitting the main artery, spraying blood all over the place. I don't remember if the girls got hit by the spray, but they were apparently freaked out and unimpressed anyway. Great story, but obviously sounds just a little far fetched. Perhaps "based on a true story"
I remember that, who the hell posted that??? I remember REx and someone else called shenanigans on him

[Udai Hussien]

I had to explain to a head shop owner here in Austin about the double/triple blown thing...another female glassblower here in town had told him ALL her stuff was double and triple blown.well she's either a double idiot, or triple liar. possibly both.

[Steve Sizelove]

Zed, I remember that legend! Funny stuff.....

But you got the Gigi thing wrong. She wasn't being careful and pushed a bundle of 2mm rods into a box with the palm of her hand. One broke and went through her hand. She had to have surgery. It was bad.....

[Aymie]

Owww, wouldn't they get little shards of glass in their knees?

My guess is that if they are under the bench chowin' down while you work...you don't really care about their knees.



well she's either a double idiot, or triple liar. possibly both.
All that and more baby!




Has anyone ever actually had a lighter blow up? I no longer keep my lighter on the work bench...just makes sense...but I have never known anyone who had a lighter blow up or actually knew someone who did. There has to be someone out there right? I figure if we can all touch some part of our flesh to a hot piece of glass we just set down time and time again, then surely one of us has actually blown up their lighter with a hot piece of shrapnel.

[rye]

this was pretty stupid, but I had a close call one time when a punty melted a small hole in a lighter and it started spraying gas everywhere. its not hard to see how it could have become a very bad situation. i make extra sure to keep em in my pocket now.

[chayes]

pyrex isn't glass

[mer]

Has anyone ever actually had a lighter blow up? I no longer keep my lighter on the work bench...just makes sense...but I have never known anyone who had a lighter blow up or actually knew someone who did. There has to be someone out there right? I figure if we can all touch some part of our flesh to a hot piece of glass we just set down time and time again, then surely one of us has actually blown up their lighter with a hot piece of shrapnel.

my friend dropped hot glass on his lighter back in the day at cascade. it melted through but it just hissed for a second, no explosion. i still wouldn't try it though.

[Zed]

I've blown a few lighters over the years. They don't blow up but rather turn into small and short lived mini flamethrowers.

My worst accident to date (knocks on wood) was early on in my studies of glass. I dropped a small marble or it popped of the punty I forget, and it bounced off the floor and onto my foot, where it rolled under the strap of the sandals I was wearing... I'm kicking and screaming and hopping around but the 1000 degree marble is lodged between my foot and sandal... Finally got it free but it burned the fuck out of me, good thing it was a small mib. Still have the scar.

Glassblowing: you pay for the knowledge one way or another.

[Jimi The Don]

i blew glass barefoot once while at a festival but that was a special circumstance, you might want to buy some shoes dude, burnt feet are annoying..

[Michael]

Has anyone ever actually had a lighter blow up?

Had one of those shity clear lighters swell up like a ballon & burst. Huge explosion! I droped what I was doing & ran for my life!!! After an hour of checking my lines & scratching my head I found the lighter shrapnel-

[beachglass]

a friend was messing around making mushroom pendants once and he set the lighter down next to the torch. it slowly melted a hole in it then all the sudden started shooting flame like 6 ft for about 10 seconds. its pretty impressive how much gas is in those

[Mac Maestro]

Somebody showed a picture of singed facial hairs from an exploding lighter once. I forget who that was now...

[chayes]

dicrylic oh yeah that's the stuff

[Mecha]

dicrylic oh yeah that's the stuff

How could I forget!

oh the countless arguments with trustees over the years.....

no one knows glass like a brain dead trustafarian.... Not even a glassblower.

Thanks for the laugh!

[Cameron Reed]

i heard there was a guy selling big blocks of carbon real cheap at a gas confrence. turns out it came from a nucular reactor and realy lit up a gieger counter.

[KahunaGlassArt]

this guy must get all the ladys

http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&q=dvd%20SECRETS%20TO%20MAKING%20GLASS%20PIPES&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#q=glassblowing&hl=en&emb=0&start=40

[Zed]

you might want to buy some shoes dude, burnt feet are annoying...

Yes, I learned the lesson of sandals in the glass shop the hard way, and now only wear real shoes and cotton clothing. I'm looking for a thick lab coat type thing to wear in the shop as well.

[Udai Hussien]

this guy must get all the ladys

http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&q=dvd%20SECRETS%20TO%20MAKING%20GLASS%20PIPES&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#q=glassblowing&hl=en&emb=0&start=40
bad link

[Jimi The Don]

good idea Zed, i've got a few sweaters with random holes in them..

[stillaborofreak]

ok time to mythbust. I am Rex Eggen, Udai was right on that. Ill start at the beginning. It was 1997 I was living in guerneville ca. My buddy , Danny, was in town - we went to the Oakland Water Park the day before. I woke up the next day still in the umbro soccer shorts and went to sebastopol to make a side car for danny at a friends studio, I think i was out of o2. I was working on a big wooden office desk and the chair was large with no wheels. long story short the piece broke of the handle and fell directly between my legs, i jumped out of the chair and instantly the piece all covered in molten umbros stuck to my inner leg and ball sack, In shock I removed my umbros stuck a bag of frozen peas on my balls and cruised directly to the hospital in sebastopol. on arrival they iced my balls and had to call the burn center in san fransisco since they had no clue how to deal with 3rd degree burns on my nuts. They even considered airlifting me to the burn center. they shot morphine in my ass bandaged me up and called my lady who at the time worked for les claypool (ihate to be a name thrower but the story needs demystified) because he has recently made the movie electric apricot were his character blows glass and tells a story of burning his nuts. I was in bed for a month eating pills drinking beer tube in one hand, remote in the other. I am so thankful to have a lady so good as to salve my nuts with burn stuff and change my dressings twice a day. It fucking hurt more than any of you could imagine. the changing of dressings was way worse than the initial burn. Well 12 years later I have two awesome kids, it all still works and i have what i call my soft spot on the back side of my nuts. Oh yeah there was no blood squirting and there was no girls, until I was laying on my stomach with ice on my nuts and a group of nurses giggling, to be honest i did not give a fuck the ice felt great.

[BlueLilyStudio]

les claypool blowing glass in Electric Apricot...

[Johan]

Ouch! I'm gonna go appreciate my balls right now.

[stillaborofreak]

I just advise wearing cotton!

[Aymie]

there are much less painful ways to remove that pesky ball hair dear.

[stillaborofreak]

I'll keep that in mind maybe I'll just go in for laser removal next time.

[Collin]

This is Brandon. Rex's long time friend. This is a true story. Better him then I. What a great lady Jill is to clean your luggage for you.

[HiAltitude]

Here's one I hear all the time from people trying to discourage me from glass blowing: There are no old glassblowers. They all die horrible deaths from lung disease, poison themselves, get cataracts, blow themselves up, etc. It is impossible to safely blow glass.

[Breed]

according to rotten.com, it's actually bits of plastic that put color in glass. and here i've been wasting money for years on color.

another legend i'm sick of is that all glass pipes are like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JlqDPGpro)

[HOSS]

another legend i'm sick of is that all glass pipes are like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JlqDPGpro)

Thats almost as funny as it is sad. And check out the credits for who was running the camera. Don't we know someone in Texas who uses that nickname? Hmmmm....

[Johan]

WTF...Didn't you'all hear...meth pipes are in style now. Head shops want tons of prodo...yeeee haaaaahhhh!!!..again...WTF

[SouthernFume]

haha texas stranger!!!! dumb fuck!!

[mazzalani]

i've been told that a sharp rap on a hard surface just after finishing the bowl of a spoon helps to...get this.."temper" the glass. funny thing is several people have told me that, didnt read thru thread to see if someone else mentioned that, i feel confident not many hear or speak of such things.

[menty666]

another legend i'm sick of is that all glass pipes are like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JlqDPGpro)


Step 1, start with a super flammable paper veneer and MDF desk in your mom's condo.

Is it just me or did that guy seem like a tweaker jonesing for another hit?

[faded]

according to rotten.com, it's actually bits of plastic that put color in glass. and here i've been wasting money for years on color.

another legend i'm sick of is that all glass pipes are like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JlqDPGpro)

wtf kinda pipe is that? :twitch: