no more eavesdropping

[berning]

i've been dropping in here for a while now and i tought i should take a minute to introduce myself and show some of my work.

i'd like to start by thanking everyone for openly sharing so much information.

my name is jeff berning(berningglass). 8 months ago i traded my tobbacco addiction for a glass addiction. in that short time i've gone from having an expensive hobby, to having a hobby that pays for itself, to having a struggling business. i make oil candles, flower vases,sun cathers , pump dispeners, seasonal ornaments ,jewelry and such. i also make pipes,but only for myself ,family and friends.

[faded]

very creative. i like them all. :)

[Ben Burton Glass]

Nice work Jeff!! Keep at it :) Great ideas too!!

aloha!

[jedi glassworks]

Hey good work. Those frogs look like some my frien Justice makes right up in your neck of the woods. Do you know him?

Bryan

[CripSkillz]

Yup nice,, always like to see other good stuff.. besides pipes.. seems like i never look past the cloud of smoke..

[jes]

nice, thanks for showing!!!

[berning]

in response to the frogs looking like the one justice does....i take that as a huge compliment,since he's the one thaty showed them to me. i live around corner from him. actually the concepts for a lot of the things i do originate while hangin out at down the street

[chayes]

awesome tops.

[Pogo]

diggin the wiggy-pendy

[The Madhatter]

My favorite is the ghost. Looks simple, yet it was a cool idea! Those shrooms were pretty awesome too, how big are they? It's so hard to figure out scale on here...

[RamblezMarblez]

Nice pumpkins.

[berning]

My favorite is the ghost. Looks simple, yet it was a cool idea! Those shrooms were pretty awesome too, how big are they? It's so hard to figure out scale on here...

thanks...the ghosts are really simple,fun and freeflowing...most mushrooms are about 3 in. ...they range from 1 and a half to 5 inches

[rahoorkhuit93]

Those pumpkins are awesome... you told me in my noob thread that you used a concentrator, is ALL of this stuff done on the concentrator???? If so, I don't see why people are so against them, your stuff looks totally badass.

[berning]

Those pumpkins are awesome... you told me in my noob thread that you used a concentrator, is ALL of this stuff done on the concentrator???? If so, I don't see why people are so against them, your stuff looks totally badass.

thanks. ya, all of this stuff was done on a national 3a, with some type off 12 hole tip, and a regalia oxy/con. concentrators limit your torch size. unless you're willing to get several of them, and link 'em together, and run 'em through a compressor into a holding tank. my studio is 84 sq. feet. so that's not gonna happen for me. i live in the middle of no where,which is great, unless you need things like oxygen. getting oxygen would be a 2 and a half hour round trip, and i'm not willing to do that. i just found out that GTT came out with the scorpion . looks like my concentrator would run it. i'm calling them in the morning. i might buy one tommorrow...........or maybe i'm just all hopped up on borosilicate.....

[rahoorkhuit93]

thanks. ya, all of this stuff was done on a national 3a, with some type off 12 hole tip, and a regalia oxy/con. concentrators limit your torch size. unless you're willing to get several of them, and link 'em together, and run 'em through a compressor into a holding tank. my studio is 84 sq. feet. so that's not gonna happen for me. i live in the middle of no where,which is great, unless you need things like oxygen. getting oxygen would be a 2 and a half hour round trip, and i'm not willing to do that. i just found out that GTT came out with the scorpion . looks like my concentrator would run it. i'm calling them in the morning. i might buy one tommorrow...........or maybe i'm just all hopped up on borosilicate.....

Don't feel bad, my shop is extremely tiny too. I've been checking out the Scorpion and the lil' Cricket too. My concentrator won't run the Scorpion completely but it will run it's enter fire or the Cricket! We have oxygen here, but it's super expensive and there's no option to get liquid... plus I'm really intrigued by concentrators.

Hey, if you get any good info about that Scorpion feel free to pass it on to me... or better yet, if you buy one feel free to slip us a lil' review :D

[berning]

i'm working on fish shapes for a fish themed oil candle sculpture and a friend pointed out that i should start turning my practice pieces into pipes instead of just leaving them as random glass ornaments. FISH ON !!!

[Lub]

justice of the glass menagerie in Eugene?

[berning]

justice of the glass menagerie in Eugene?

i don't think so

[NiRTY]

Nice pumpkins.

Yes.

I really like the pumpkins.

[naughty pirate wench]

punkins are way cool, as are the fish pipes! looking great, and I'm delighted to hear you're doing this with an oxycon!

[berning]

a couple horns i made for my ears

[hippi]

sick dude! so you just draw your lines twist them up and then shape? i like the pendants and the lil shroom statues on the 1st page to!

[berning]

the cobalt blue and white one ia a wrap and rack. with really fat lines on the wrap. i have a set of metal calipers that i make to make sure they are the right diamater. i usually. start with a rod that is slightly smaller that what i want to end up with. these are 13mm, i started with a 12 mm rod. the first time i made some i spent a morning making the same shape horn over and over again out of clear until i could consistantly get the same shape. now it's a piece a cake.

[berning]

a diversion from the monotany.

[akmewon]

cool flix i still have your fish in they are pretty cool

[jes]

nice, thanks for showing...

[berning]

thanks. i've got a notebok full of ideas that i can't wait to work out ,as soon as i get a real torch. and as far as the fish pipes,thanks, the next ones are going to be much nicer ,more realistic. i've been doing research, taking notes and experimenting with frit. realistic fish comin soon........hopefully.

[Patrice]

wouw! they sure look great!

[berning]

here's a couple of my first candle carousels. i really need to get a camera and start documenting more of the stuff i make.

http://www.facebook.com/berningglass?v=app_2392950137&ref=profile#!/video/video.php?v=1059123453828

http://www.facebook.com/berningglass?v=app_2392950137&ref=profile#!/video/video.php?v=1055943214324

[ivebeenshotafied]

yo berning i got the set. and dam thanks. how did you get those colors in the pipe?
did you do a blowout blowin? i really love the texture and colors.
(i will post pics in a lil) but i really like the style you went with. so your def gonna see that type of mouth piece..and for only 11months not making pipes all day dam.

aaannnd you wrote a note. thats whats up i meant to throw some handwriting in there cause i i feel everyone forgot about the pen and pad.

and thats a nice as suculpty(sp) scene

[berning]

how did you get those colors in the pipe?
did you do a blowout blowin? i really love the texture and colors.

i'm still confused on the difference between blow in/blow out. it was one of the 2 i think. i guess that's the downside of being a lonely lampworker in the middle of nowhere. but this is what i did.

cover some 12mm tubing in blue moon
blow up into bubble
cover in clear dots
condense down to 16mm tube
put it inside a point made from 25 x 4 tubing
inflate,recondense,seperate into 2 pieces
bigger one for the can,smaller one for the mouth piece
the center piece is just a point ,fumed with silver, cover with clear dots.

[NUBBLET]

blow IN = blow bubble INTO tube
blow OUT= blow bubble OUT of blob

[berning]

^thanks. that's the simple clarification i needed.

[berning]

yesterdays projects. 2 pipes and my first sculptural vessel . i also got some better pics of fish sculpture.

[ivebeenshotafied]

reminds me of underwater...and not the scene. haha. but i like the how you make those scense. i bet people scoop them up like hot cakes.

[berning]

i've been playin with the water theme alot lately. as far them selling like hot cakes , this is my first fish scene. not that many people have even seen it yet. i'm gonna make a few more this week . i'm also gonna make some random single fish, an octopus , maybe some jelly fish and other assorted sea life. then put them all inside of a glass display case ,so it looks like a fish tank, but without water.

[ivebeenshotafied]

i swear i saw you had some more? or im loosing my mind haha
cant wait to see the new ones with more creatures of the deep

[berning]

Happy Easter

[ivebeenshotafied]

real good idea. that bottom wigwag reverse. is sick.

[berning]

after a day of frustration i decided to stop, take step back , breath deeply, over and over, post some of yesterdays work (a sneak peak at the next berntfish sculpture) , before i dive back into the flame.

[berning]

fish sculpture #2

[NUBBLET]

pretty fucking cool

[Lucaso]

That octo is sweeeeet

[Lucius Emanuel]

fish scenes are really dope man. nice.

[ivebeenshotafied]

looks good real good. i like the mix medium

[CripSkillz]

That is tight man,, low maintenance aquarium.

[berning]

i had some sections of blow-in leftover from the "waves" for the fish sculpture. figured i'd try something different and make myself a present. usually the piece i use isn't even good enough for the seconds drawer.

[berning]

yesterday while i was packing up my bench of aquarium decorations i realized i failed to make any sea tutles. my eyes were kinda fuzzy last night when i made them ,so i was a little nervous when i opened the kiln this morning. i was pleasantly suprised to see these guys waiting for me. sometimes my late night creations look good late at night with my beer googles on, but not so nice in the mornin.

[ivebeenshotafied]

like them turtles.

[berning]

a woman from a local winery asked me to make her inserts to turn some wine bottles into oil candles. seeing that i live in wine country i figured i should try selling some. they ended up being a good portion of my sales last weekend at a local craft fair. easy to make ,easy to sell

[nafglass]

Cool! What color green are the dots on the turtle?
What's the trick with the oil lamps? Make sure the wick fits tight in the glass?

[berning]

Cool! What color green are the dots on the turtle?
What's the trick with the oil lamps? Make sure the wick fits tight in the glass?

the green is the glasstronics green

with the oil lamp inserts i use this tool i made out of 2 screw extractors mounted into either end of a small piece of wooden dowel. i have three different size wicks that i use for different types of oil candles. these are 3/16 inch wicks. i know approximatley , on the larger screw extractor, where 3/16 of an inch is. i open the hole to approximately 3/16 of an inch , and then using an 11/64 inch drill bit ,as a gauge , i either open of close the hole to 11/64 of an inch. making the hole barely smaller than the wick , giving it a nice snug fit.

[berning]

last weekend people asked for bubblers left and right. so i figured i try to make one. that was alot of fun, even though i did things all backwards. tonight should go alot smoother.

[berning]

heres a couple surviors. the turtle piece isn't one of them,tink tink, the downstem touched the bottom of the can.:bangHead::tantrum::bangHead: determining the stem length has been a problem. what's the secret?

[ivebeenshotafied]

^shorter the is better than too long bro(i think i picked that up from somewhere)

i like that trutle one a lot. and the yellow..what color is that by chance if i can ask?

[berning]

^shorter the is better than too long bro(i think i picked that up from somewhere)

i like that trutle one a lot. and the yellow..what color is that by chance if i can ask?

thanks, the yellow is butterscotch over white , honeycombed and then blown in.

[phatsol]

I likey the orange one. That turtles going "which way did he go george":D

[berning]

after a couple days playin with puttin downstems into things , i feel comfortable telling people i can make a bubbler.

i'm a little out of the loop and have always been a 20 dollar spoon person. how much would something like this go for, if i was selling it to "joe public"?

[ras_l-roy]

around $60 ? my 2 cents

[CripSkillz]

id get 40 - 50 for it to public..

[berning]

wow. ya'll just gave me a good reason to stick to making pretty little shiny things for little old ladies.

[hippi]

lol why is that? 50-60 isnt a bad price..

[burton13order]

yeah 50-60 isnt bad at all for maybe the hour and a half worth of work

[berning]

allright , back from a party in sac. sold several pieces including the last one i posted. i asked 60 she paid 60 and we both left happy. i sometimes forget that i'm slow and have a little torch. it took me a little over 2 hours to make and in that time i could have made 5 or 6 oil candles at 25 each , or 10 jellyfish at 20 each. i'm still gonna make pipes because i like to (and people always ask for them). but as far as marketing myself, little old ladies looking for pretty little shinies.
60 isn't bad , i just always want more
thanks for your pricing advice.

[berning]

a few new oil candles. i like the look of the colored downstems i've been seenin in a lot of tubes. i thought i would look good in an oil candle too.

[hashmasta-kut]

wow. ya'll just gave me a good reason to stick to making pretty little shiny things for little old ladies.

once you make like 50 of those bubs, it will be so easy and quicker too, that 60 dollars would seem like being well paid prolly.

[phatsol]

Those oil candles are bad ass:chilling:

[berning]

thanks ,phatsol. i get a lot of repeat customers so i'm always tryin to change things up so people aren't looking at the same type of thing. i don't want people to say"i've seen his stuff "and keep on walking, i want them to say"i wonder what kind of new stuff he has" and come in and look around

i like to have a wide price range when i'm out vending ,it's been a struggle to find inexpensive things i can make. these were my wifes idea and i resisted at first, i thought it was lame. until i made a bunch and then sold them.

glass straws- 10 inch section of 9.5 tubing ,flame polished on both ends and a little color for decoration. 6 dollars a piece or 4 for 20. i was really bummed out i didn't make more ,seein that i sold em all, and they were so easy quick and cheap to make.

[hippi]

nice dude! i accidently order a lot of 9.5..ill have to mess with makin some of these.. people actually using them to drink drinks with them?

[berning]

i made made my wife a set about 2 months ago. her and her friends use 'em regularly. everyone gets their own color............it's so very exiting

[hippi]

nice!...i know a lot of girls that drink lol....but i just sliced my thumb cuttin the 9.5 rods...stupid dull glass cutter lol

[stateofmind]

i made made my wife a set about 2 months ago. her and her friends use 'em regularly. everyone gets their own color............it's so very exiting

lol

[berning]

OK so a spun out of his mind tweeker came up to me while i was vending and asked if it was possible to melt my straws with mapp gas. i told him sure, so he bought 12 ,10 inch sections of 9.5 tubing for 60 dollars. he's coming back tommorow to buy a couple dozen more, but he doesn't want the color squiggles or dots, just plain tubing. he also wants some straws made out of 12 mm. i have a friend interested in glass and he scored and snapped all the tubing and right now he's flame polishing the ends............i don't want him to cut himself on my straws while he's making meth pipes.

[CDot]

make the pipe for him and charge him more...

[berning]

i made him a him pipe and he can have it for free if he buys another dozen straws.

[hippi]

lol hes proly hot railing shit with them lol..damn tweekers....money is money though i guess haha

[berning]

fuck it. dude spent 120 dollars on glass straws.

[hippi]

lol nice and it was like what actually 10$ worth if that lol

[CripSkillz]

sweeet deal .. lol

[jane clifton]

this is a great thread and some wonderful work!!!! Thanks for posting!
jane

[berning]

the pieces with reversals are from last night on stickcam . the grubrollers are my second batch of 'em. the first ones went really quick.

[CripSkillz]

OOKIN goood mang...

[berning]

thanks . tonight instead of putting the reversal disc sections together , i'm gonna make some fins and a neck/head section, and turn 'em into sea turtle pipes.

[berning]

last nights session wasn't as productive as i wanted, but among the things i pulled out today are these 2 FUNctional sea turtles. i'm not satisfied with the shape of the mouth , maybe tonights turtles will be better.

[berning]

i started puttin the turtles on stands made out of 9.5 tubing, the right size to accept the standard air tube for fish tank pumps. the turtle blows bubbles.

i also started putting eyeballs one the front of the grubrollers. they're not little steamrollers anymore, but i think they'll sell anyways.

thanks to aussie for the awsome eye tut.http://www.talkglass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30526&highlight=eye+tutorial

[berning]

some of yesterdays garbage. i got my hand torch hooked up yesterday and i wanted to make something that would require me to use. so i made a few sections and put 'em together. thanks to everyone that watched me struggle through figuring out what i was doin.

after holding it i realized that it doesn't feel right. back into the kiln. add another section and modify the carb

REASON FOR EDITING:i was being a whinny little bitch

[D kid]

Look really nice. Its got good color.

[berning]

sold my first batch of pipes to a store this week. found out that that mostly sell spoons and bubs. they bought my spoons and left me wishing i had some bubs to sell. so yesterday i decided to tackle the downstem and see how many pieces i could make.

[berning]

some of this weeks stuff. a vase , an oil candle and my first attempt at GonG joints. that wasn't as hard as i built it up to be.

[AcidFly]

Wow those are some awesome pieces :)
very nice work :)


AcidFly

[KILGORE]

good stuff man. esp the reversal spoons. what size tubing do you use for the @w@ and for the pipes?

[TheGlassTree]

Lookin' real good my friend!

[hippi]

nice dude that bub looks good!... i still dont understand how u mix your colors around like that lol.... see ya on stickam

[mouseclone]

a week? i'm going to go and hide under a rock. My week has not been nearly as productive. Great work.

[TlkQ]

WOW. That bubbler is AMAZING. Jaw. On. Floor.

[CripSkillz]

hellll ya mang ;)

[BoroZillacate]

Sweeet! Do Work!

[berning]

thanks ya'll. inspired by the semi-headie bub exchange, i set out to make worthy fo entering. here's my second attempt. again i had some proportioning issues and it ennded up nothing like i planned. i've decided most of my sketches would work better stemless.

@kilgore, everythings dne on 26x4
@mouseclone,that was only some off this weeks stuff, i spens a lotta time in the shop. i'm a workaholic, and i love meltin glass.

[mouseclone]

I really dig the slide. great work.

[berning]

my first goblet. it was my wifes birthday yesterday and she wanted "her glass", and i wanted to play with window reversals. so this is what i made friday night.

[hashmasta-kut]

wow i'm jealous, thats really nice man. :) im making more goblets soon too, when my footpedal parts are all here.

[berning]

thanks hmk. i almost forgot i made this spoon too , to see if i could do a window, before i tried it with my wifes birthday present.

[Ikensel]

No More eaves Dropping thread

Eaves Dropping on you is awsome. Great stuff and inspiring. Keep posting your ass kiken stuff.
Thanks

[berning]

lol, thanks, this is by far my favorite place to post my stuff. comments and criticism carry more weight here.

recently had someone ask for domes and curves.i figured it was about time to jump on the bandwagon.

[ivebeenshotafied]

i like the look of those g...the second one the most

[berning]

thanks. i've been makin some atom smasher like pieces, not really sure what to call them, similar to the second dome. if atom smasher is the brand , what do you calll the product...........or is it like band-aid where it's just become a generic catagorization ?:puzzled:

here's a few tube implosions i've been playin with. i've been having alot of fun making them ,but getting decent pics of has been killing me. here's a few of the decent ones.

[Chronic]

Those are some killer marbles! I especially like the first one.

[ivebeenshotafied]

hell yea^..real nice rose too.

whats the size of em?

[berning]

thank ya'll. they're an inch and a 1/4, to an inch and a 1/2. i really need to invest in a decent size marble mold.

[ivebeenshotafied]

no offense but id say look at them :D

[berning]

yesterday ,i needed a break and wanted to play, not produce, so idecided to try makinin a lizard out tube instead of rod. opened the kiln this mornin to be pleased and disapointed at the same time. i'm happy with the attempt but i'm kickin myself for forgeting about the lizard eye cane i have (and forgot to use), and i coulda done a much better job at shapin the legs.

[steak351]

i like it, very virbrant colours

[berning]

thanks steak .i made a few more and each one looks less and less like a lizard and more like a lil dinosaur. i decided to stop , step back and i'll tackle that project later.

i've been tryin to figure out what a berning glass bubbler looks like .i finally pulled one out of the kiln that i feel happy with and want to reproduce.

[CripSkillz]

looks nice mang ;)

[berning]

thank you.
after lookin at it for a while decided i wasn't totally happy with the reversal in the bowl, i thought it would look better if i just put a spiraled section there instead. and when holding it , it felt more natural to have the carb in the front. and the neck could be longer.
so here's the next few. i like 'em now ,but probably won't by the next time i post.

[hippi]

lol why the fuck dont i see you making these on stickam...u need to say hey hippi im doing the cool wig wag design thing...lol i can get the design on a pendant but tube....it gets all funky and design lost... keep it up the pieces are sick

[berning]

i think i normally start them shortly after you take one of those motivation dabs .next time i make some( this week), i'll make sure to wake ya up :D

[berning]

and one more before i move on in the evolution. figured it was election day so i should make at least on thing that was red, white and blue.

[mouseclone]

snazzy

[CripSkillz]

Hippi is to motivated.. lol I like the spiral caps my self//

[berning]

I MOTIVATED HIPPI !!!! i'd like to be officially recognized as a miracle worker .......LOL.... looking forward to tommorrows pics hippi

thanks, general consensus is that the spirals are better.

[CripSkillz]

lol damn after all these months he finallly listened to ya,,, Whaaaaaaaaaaa

[berning]

OH NO !!!.............now he's gonna be all confused....LOL

[hippi]

huh? hahaha dont be jelous coolios

[berning]

a few new slides. a buddy of mine says i should be sellin them with the lil stand like i take the pics with( a female fitting with a bubble flattened into a disk).
should i ???

[CripSkillz]

very cool .,, if you get xtra5$ hell ya,, and it will display good,, I made a wooden 3 stair display for 1 store to put my gog's in kina cool maybe do that..

[berning]

so i decided the stand is gonna be included and i'm just adding on an extra 5 dollars.

[FizZle]

those slides are pimpin man...your work is getting better and better...

[CripSkillz]

helll ya thats pimp

[berning]

thanks ya'll. :Dthings seem to be flowin smoother lately.:D and proper product display doesn't hurt.

[berning]

i know....i keep hearin it ...the fish things been done , redone and overdone....but it makes me happy and everything i make with sea life seems to sell.

[mouseclone]

fuck what has been done or over done.. people still by shit from china and that card has been played before as well.

The work you put into the sea life is wonderful. I dig it, and I'm not even in to fish. So keep on doing it and making a living at what you enjoy.

[hwcglass]

i know....i keep hearin it ...the fish things been done , redone and overdone....but it makes me happy and everything i make with sea life seems to sell.

Dude, you know this guy (http://www.popweb.com/costantini/)?

Old school and a contemporary master.

Done, redone and overdone; sure I could see where that is true. But why? Two reasons:

one, the stuff sells. and this is good.

two, they are not easy to make. they have been and continue to be great test of lampworking skill. And by have been I mean like 600 years.

There are a hole 'school' of objects in class with the fish (pun intended). Think about learning them all. That's becoming boss old school style. And it's a good business.

Wess Flemming, 'beastmaster' here, has been thinking about that same path for a wile now.

Okay, I'm done. Thanks for sharing the work. I enjoy it.

[ivebeenshotafied]

i really like the fish man. the dichro makes them pop

[TlkQ]

Oh my god I LOVE the octopus slide!!

[berning]

thanks ya'll.. . and thanks for the link hwc, hadn't seen his work.

i finally mustered up the confidence to try a hollow one

[berning]

new year, new work , new focus. yesterdays bubs and some of this weeks slides.

[jes]

like your work allot :D

[hwcglass]

thanks for sharing.

[CripSkillz]

hell ya loookin goood.. mang

[SevenOut]

Great looking stuff man!

[Headdi Retti's Glass Art Studio]

Brotha, thems some Sick slides, likey, likey. The dac just looks awesome mangg!. And my fav that octa pusssy! Fucking great Bro!:chilling:

[n3rd]

some serious badassness here!

[hippi]

nice work dude works lookin sick

[Kato]

damnnnn jeff lookin good. I step away from the cam for a few days and look what I miss!

rock it rock it

[berning]

thank you, thank you. after posting yesterday i went back and looked over the past year, huh, aside from the progresion of my work , i also noted a slight change in point of view and attitude.......this is gonna be a good year.

....and kato , you need to get a new charger.:)

[STROKER]

really nice work and progression. tearing it up on the scorpion...

still waiting on mine..

more pics please.

[n3rd]

....and kato , you need to get a new charger.:)

i think he needs a whole new computer :p

[berning]

bummer about kato . i was under the impression that he melted his charger in a shop accident. but i'm not known for payin attention.

stroker, i'm diggin the scorpion, great lil torch, although the only others i've used are a minor and a 3a....SO THIS THING ROCKS. and as soon as i get my shop situation figured out, i'm gonna get off this oxycon and move up to the real deal. and then on to a bigger torch.

a few bubs later and i think i found what i was looking for. it's been flowing lately, might be a good time to try an inline

[mouseclone]

should I be under the impression that you made that on a scorpion? NOt that it matter much,. but damn that is a nice piece.

[berning]

should I be under the impression that you made that on a scorpion? NOt that it matter much,. but damn that is a nice piece.

thanks and yup. everything from last may till now has been on a scorpion, before that it was a 3a. i kinda gotta feelin i got a mirage in my future

[Blissful Glass]

very nice,

[berning]

few pics of recent work. more are posted in my glasspipes gallery.

[Kato]

ballllllin! when did you bust out that last bub? how did I miss that? looks f'n awesome mayne!

[hippi]

ya dude that last one is sick! bet its hvy as fuck with all those mibs on there.. looks sick dude.

[smolder holder]

Wow that last one looks BIG! Sweet mibs on it too!

[Headdi Retti's Glass Art Studio]

Wow! That's some BadAss Glass there , I too like that bub so fucking sweett!.....and the impolded, marble infested, wagged,disc flipped, and fumed piece is outta site Man! Whooo weeeee!...

[berning]

thanks ya'll . ya the mib bub is my fav. it was made over a period of about a month. made the bub section about a month ago. then added mibs several times....considering tossing it back in the kiln and putting a couple more on the front of the can.

[coloringdan]

There's gotta be over 1000 dots on that! awesome!

[ivebeenshotafied]

like the starfish one the pipes..really like them on the spoons man.(far back one is the one id pick) ha

[hashmasta-kut]

ya the starfish ones are cool. could do some with spiders like that.

[berning]

ah yes .....spiders. i tried a spider pipe for a friend last spring. failed horribly , didn't yet have the control to deal with those skinny lil legs. so instead i did a crappy version of a voic style spider implosion. maybe i should try it agian. thanks for remindin me

[berning]

a couple bubs with flowers

[FizZle]

you sir are ragin that scorpion...nice!

[hippi]

nice work coolio...ur gonna have to demo those mibs....i cant get tube to implode like that for the life of me...

[berning]

thanks , i think the secret to tube implosions is to get the bubble , super thin . almost bubble trash.

[STROKER]

man those are sweet.
love the depth on the mib too.

definately killin it on the scorpion.

[berning]

ah yes the scorpion , it's a nice torch. i figured out out to make it melt some glass. lookin forward to the day when it's sittin at my second station , and havin a lil bigger flame to play with.

[berning]

yesterdays flower bub.

[AcidFly]

Very nice :) love the blue

AcidFly

[berning]

a few new marbles

[sleepingpeople]

damn dude hell yeah. very glad we got to trade dishes. wish i would have had more to offer at the time.

[CripSkillz]

Yup those are sweet u need to start selling em at pipe show ;)

[Headdi Retti's Glass Art Studio]

Your work is extremely tight, I love all of it , Great colors , Awesome execution of tech's, and just all out fucking sweet visually...Nice Bro...=)

[berning]

Yup those are sweet u need to start selling em at pipe show ;)

that's a great idea.:dieslaugh :dieslaugh :dieslaugh i could get more marbles made if i quit makin pipes to put them on.

thanks sleeping. good to finally meet , that was a really nice implosion dish i got from ya. don't be surprised when ya see me bite that idea in the near future.:evilLaugh

[sleepingpeople]

Thanks :D glad i could be of some amount of inspiration to your work!

[smolder holder]

Stuff looks killer B. Mibs are sweet!

[RedToroBoro]

Those Mibs and stands are incredible. Hell all those pieces are awesome!

[berning]

first attempt at a tube. 38mm . make a few more today and purty em up.

[sleepingpeople]

noooot bad, natural diffusion ?

[AcidFly]

very cool :) good job !!

AcidFly

[smolder holder]

Hell yeah I just recently did my first tube too.

[Oak]

this man can rock the shit out of a scorpion! very nice!!

[berning]

so at AGI i was shown how to make milli....now i can't stop , i know i have an order to make , but this is too much fun

[FizZle]

coool now u can share the info on stickam...wooot

[Kato]

hell yea man stuff is looking great!

[Blissful Glass]

awsome berning love the new ninja trick

[B-Rye-oNeR]

ha sweet, those look damn good. Im guessing they are an implosion milli? the only ones I've ever really done are implosion signature millis, and a few simpler ones. really need to try some more ...Someone needs to TUT, these!

[yourhighness]

...Someone needs to TUT, these!

Jeff, are you listening? :)

[berning]

ha sweet, those look damn good. Im guessing they are an implosion milli? the only ones I've ever really done are implosion signature millis, and a few simpler ones. really need to try some more ...Someone needs to TUT, these!

thanks , and yup , it's an implosion milli. the same concept as a sig milli , except it's done with a stickstack ( no clear core ). honey combs also work well .

with a good implosion on both ends , a small ball of color can yield a fair amount of milli. a 12 line stick stack , 2 inches long , can make 3 milli cane , that are between 30 and 40 grams.

if there's ever someone around when i make them , i'll try to get some pics and post up a tut.

[smolder holder]

Sweet milli dude. I've been experimenting with it a little myself. Doesn't look nearly as nice as yours though.

[frillcappa]

Fuking nice millies dude. !

[berning]

still on the milli march. om symbol , and my first bitch window.

i think i'm gonna post some of these up for sale in the members glassifieds , when i get a working scale, if anyone's interested.

[Mecha]

Damn dude, these are looking really nice!

[FizZle]

damnnnnn sickness...those are tight as hell man

[Kato]

Jeff I must say, you are a maker of some damn fine milli so crisp and clean. I'm definitely interested if you do end up getting rid of some.

[TheGlassTree]

Yeah dood hook up that bitch windowed milli.... I'll take it all

[berning]

my first set of fish murrine and what i did with them.

[IndiePendent]

Baller milli collages man! Keep it up! Also, PMed about some of that milli :)

[oregonglassblower]

repped for the sweet millis. If and when you sell them im wanting some

[$Y$TM]

The millis are tight. I'm still trying to wrap my head around some of those. Love the clown fish!

[Julian]

Awesome work you're doing with all the new murrine, Jeff! Love the ocean scene.

[RamblezMarblez]

Cool update....Mili'z looking sharP!

[berning]

thank you thank you and thank you

been having alot of fun with this tech , it's like a whole new world of possiblities.

@ oregonglassblower , i've been selling it ( i make it faster then i use it) , pm me if your interested

[CripSkillz]

Sickness

[berning]

Sickness

speaking of , we doing another collab soon or what?

[comoboro]

Great thread, I read the whole thing. Seriously nice work berning.

[berning]

and the bubber that goes with it

[AbstractBoro]

Sick millis bro, i really like the fishy pieces

[Blissful Glass]

need to see this process in person, :bangHead::rant:
but first Jeff Berning Space ship milli :Saturn:

:magician: :yay2:

[berning]

Great thread, I read the whole thing. Seriously nice work berning.

thanks , after reading your post i decided to go back and read my thread from the beginning. it's interesting to look back and follow the progession of both my work and my attitude.

thank you melting pot.

and now for some bee murrine. sorry i couldn't capture the hazy translucent sparkly goodness of the bee wings , but it's there and it does.

[ivebeenshotafied]

mili machine man.


i decided to go back and read my thread from the beginning. it's interesting to look back and follow the progession of both my work and my attitude.

i did that after i read yours, good way to remotivate; and reassuring that your doing something right.

[Yota420]

Wow, awesome work brotha. :D

[n3rd]

Love the bubb! Right on bro!

[berning]

more fish , and a nautilus.

[berning]

i was gonna make something earlier this month , to mark 3 years in , but i was to busy making stuff i knew i could sell. i figured 420 was a good enough reason to make something nice.

[AcidFly]

That's totally Wild Berning :)


Great job !!!!

AcidFly

[hngntuf]

Me likey.... Kinda jumps right out there atcha don't it?....

Stephen

[GlassConnoisseur]

Very eye-catching, well done sir.

[RedToroBoro]

Dammn impressive Berning. Awesome work

[Hazeey]

WOW, beautiful piece man.

[berning]

turtles endless highway ,wound it's way through arnold . here's a few of the things we did.

a few more pics over here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Berning-Glass/116850071682011

[Bo Diddles]

^ that's awesome. Nice work dudes!

[berning]

i'm doing a glass for ink swap , here's my piece .

more pics here. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.455131271187221.114031.116850071682011&type=1&notif_t=like

[oregonglassblower]

Turtles highway happen through Louisiana. We had a blast, colabed on a peice. Cant post from my phone, but his face book has pics. Tucker glass colab. Cant wait till the next session.