pokers

[hippi]

what type of metal is used to make pokers? is there a certin type so that the glass witll stick to it or can stainless me used?

[faded]

i use stainless steel "filler rod". got a bunch at the welding shop. once it's buried in the glass it seems to stick just fine. it's a little tricky getting it in there without melting it though.

[N!pples]

I'm with faded, Stainless steel welding rod! Just get it red to stick the glass to it and its just like making a bead with out the release..

N!ps

[The Madhatter]

You work with glass hippi...

I use the last 3 inches of my stringers where they get a little wide at the end to make pokers, and my friends love 'em! Sometimes I blob a little gather of a different color on the end. Practice tapering the narrow end to a fine point and it'll poke out a bowl hole no problem.

You can make long narrow ones with a bend on the end = L that work good for cleaning out slides/GOG, you just have to go in from the underneath. Scrapes them pretty clean if you use it often enough.

I just hate using metal on glass....:wes:

[hippi]

i use stainless steel "filler rod". got a bunch at the welding shop. once it's buried in the glass it seems to stick just fine. it's a little tricky getting it in there without melting it though.
cool thanks! i got some of that around the garage

I'm with faded, Stainless steel welding rod! Just get it red to stick the glass to it and its just like making a bead with out the release..

N!ps
get red hot..good to know thanks! i woulda proly put it on cold


You work with glass hippi...

I use the last 3 inches of my stringers where they get a little wide at the end to make pokers, and my friends love 'em! Sometimes I blob a little gather of a different color on the end. Practice tapering the narrow end to a fine point and it'll poke out a bowl hole no problem.

You can make long narrow ones with a bend on the end = L that work good for cleaning out slides/GOG, you just have to go in from the underneath. Scrapes them pretty clean if you use it often enough.

I just hate using metal on glass....:wes:

i just started!! all my equipment came in yesterday!!! just gotta go pick up a tank and hoses!!:bouncy::bouncy: airgas told me i gotta wait 2 or 3 days to get a tank though...didnt know there was a waiting period..kinda sux cause i got a torch,glass,color,tools just starring me in the face and i cant use them yet lol...i started a lil thread in the "setting up shop" section.. shows the lil "studio" im buildin

[dnug42]

shops like metal ones...glass stringers seem like they might break more easy...i like metal and glass- its brings two elements together...kinna funky. plus you can sell em for a buck- make 50. thats ahhh fifty buck-o's.....

[dnug42]

ah why would you have to wait to pick up a tank? maybe for a delivery...but pick up?- dag, dont they know people gotta be blowin da glass- jezzzs...
goldy

[hippi]

ah why would you have to wait to pick up a tank? maybe for a delivery...but pick up?- dag, dont they know people gotta be blowin da glass- jezzzs...
goldy

cause i had to wait to set up a account...gotta wait for it to go thru or something...but i got lucky and my pops found a big tank at work thats not being used...now i dont gotta pay rent on a tank!! so i should have it tomorrow afternoon...

[dnug42]

nice hippster! happy spinning! i am sure we will be hearing a lot from you very soon...enjoy.
goldy

[FiredDesires]

I have lots of bent mandrals that I can cut down and make pokers with, I'd just get the metal hot at the end, wrap some glass with decos and walah..over 12 yrs ago I made alot of "pot stickers" that way, when my bead release broke and the glass stuck to the the bare metal, lol. Hey, turning lemons into lemonade, but I doubt that, at 12" long they'd be the ticket...so what length should the pokers be?

[dnug42]

i think thats debatable...some shops like shorties- 4" and most like 6" cause people like to cut em down-

[FiredDesires]

Thanks Dnug, I'll make some of both sizes and see which ones fly out of the case...

[dnug42]

always have both- you know how that goes- what ya dont have they always ask for...hhehehehe
stay warm fired...