G.L.A.S.S. winter team thread

[B.C. Creations]

thought the hell with it. i can add names if the last 3 or 4 get back to me or someone else will be let in. top name in the list is team leader or main assembler.

winter team.....
zoarglass
fizzle
icarus
indiependant
isthmuscolor


THINK WINTER......(even tho you probly dont wanna)



dp

[B.C. Creations]

info......
http://www.talkglass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38316

[B.C. Creations]

i think our season has to have white and some blues in it.

id like to try to make a functional snowmobile shaped pipe or a snowboarder pipe or snowblower pipe. just some ideas i have......

any other ideas?

[Icarus]

Igloos, snowglobe, polar bears...

Whatever we decide on, I'm really excited to be working with this group, you guys are all really talented artists.

[IndiePendent]

I really like the snow blower idea... i can see some cool stuff coming from that idea.

Also I am super stoked to be with my new best friend in the whole world Icarus....

..who is a PIMP and he knows why :)

Those albums are the hotness.

[FizZle]

dead trees...i see some sandblasting...bubbler of some sort...i dunno...snowblower could maybe be an ashcatcher...throwin it out there...this team is sweet im stoked to be workin with this team as well...cant wait

[B.C. Creations]

what about making a 12 inch or so taller full snowblower bubbler. reversal pattern rims with black tube for wheels. bowl in the engine. mouth piece in the hand grips. carb is the crank for turning the spout. maybe display it with broken glass scrap in front of the part people cut their fingers off with. make a 'glassblower' instead of a snowblower. just a thought...........

and we can make more than one winter piece if we have time.

dp

[IsthmusColor]

Sounds cool.... Haha I like it. We could do a snowblower scene in a snowglobe shape as a chamber on something. What ever we do let's have fun. I can't wait. Pm or call me if you guys wanna brainstorm somemore.

[Icarus]

Wow. This is sounding really cool. I love the "glass blower" idea.

Now here's the part where I offer a mea culpa (actually just a heads up so you know what you're getting into).

I have been mostly doing jewelry (pendants, beads, marbles, whatnot) up until the start of this year. It's just in like January that I started doing pipes. So my tubing skills are coming along, but they are the skills of a guy who only started to get serious about making pipes six months ago, and gets to work on a torch at best 6-10 hours a week. So I'm definitely going to be the novice of the bunch.

IsthmusColor knows about where I'm at (and many thanks to him for assisting in getting me along this far), but I just wanted to give you a guy a heads up. I've seen most of your work either in person or online, and am blown away every time. You guys are a skilled set. I'm incredibly happy (and somewhat nervous) to be working along side all of you.

[IndiePendent]

@zoar - Yes. That would be so sick. I love the idea. Also we coukd do the carb as a glass on glass removal part coming out of the blower portion and make it look like its actually blowing snow.

@Icky - Aint no thang but a chicken wing sir. You will be fine, you dont have to be nervous in the least. This is meant to be a fun time and to raise some loot for a good cause.

That being said.... WINTER TEAM WITH OUR POWERS COMBINED......


LOL

EDIT: Zoar are there any hotels bmup there by you. I appreciate the offer to crash on the lawn and what not but I am way to partial to running water and air conditioning, so if possible I am gonna get a hotel room that can certianly be used to after hours party in ;)

[B.C. Creations]

no worries icarus. i told you that already.

i gave everyone a 1 thru 4 rating depending on what they told me skill levels were. then put one leader for each team. then down the list. every team ended up with one 1 two 2s a 3 and a 4. the only team to end up with no 4 was our winter team. it was all luck of the draw. so some of you may have been humble when you told me. but thats ok. i think the teams are even enough.


making a t shirt for everyone to commenorate the event. hoping for a 'donation' at the event to help cover the costs of em


cant wait.


dp

[Icarus]

That's cool man. I just wanted to let everyone else know so I didn't feel like I was misrepresenting myself.

No 4's? Dude, you guys are all 4's in my opinion.

[B.C. Creations]

haha. 4s where newbies! 1s were leaders. hahahaha

[Icarus]

Oh...

Well. I'm gonna have to amend that statement then.

As far as i'm concerned, you guys are all 1's

(and I'm still chuckling about this).

[IndiePendent]

I am definitely a four up in this bitch ;)

Definitely will throw you some loot for shirts Zoar! Itll be sweet to rock a GLASS shirt. If you need some design help my photoshop skills are off the chain ;) Hit me with a PM and I will get you my phone number we can talk.

[IndiePendent]

LOL @ your title Icarus. Get your jank on ;)

[B.C. Creations]

i got the shirt on lock down i think. keeping it simple but too the point.

as for hotels. id have to say not in any of the closer towns. appleton/grand chute for sure and green bay for sure. maybe shawano? ill look into it and see. there is a bigger campground about 5 miles away if anyone is bringing a bigger camper.

[IndiePendent]

No problem just figured I would ask :)

Back to the piece ideas...

[B.C. Creations]

http://www.rusticwolfinn.com/

sounds peaceful and non partyish and i may know someone who knows the owner. gonna find out.

theres a bunch of hotels in shawano which is like 25 mins or so from my shop. or appleton and gb about 30 mins

[FizZle]

how many stations are we gonna have per team?

[B.C. Creations]

atleast 2. i have 8 bench spots and we might be able to squeeze one or two more in here and there. plus one lathe station.

built the other bench spots this week. up graded my vents a bit. just gotta get two more fans and some concrete board. my shop is a 3 car garage with a 16ft door and an 8ft door and a wall in the middle of the shop with a patio door to seperate the two bays. in the large bay i have our 4 bench spots plus my lathe station which will have torches ready to go. the smaller bay has 3 bench spots with no torches and my demo bench. maybe able to squeeze one or two more in the smaller bay? have to see when we get going.

dp

[FizZle]

^sweet

[IndiePendent]

NOW THIS IS A SNOWBLOWER
http://www.iowafarmequipment.com/ife-skid-steer-snow-blower.jpg

[B.C. Creations]

i need to know what colors and other raw materials that the teams will want asap. or atleast an idea of what to tell the sponsors to send anyways. the sooner the better

dp

[OracleGlassArts]

hey, are we trying to make these stick together at all? gong fittings to make a big set? i thought of it cus the winter/spring change has been long and cold this year

[Icarus]

hey, are we trying to make these stick together at all? gong fittings to make a big set? i thought of it cus the winter/spring change has been long and cold this year

After we finish them, over to the wet saw. We slice them up, and then reassemble them so it looks like:

winter-winter-winter-winter-winter-spring-winter-winter-spring-winter-spring-spring-winter-spring-winter-winter-spring-spring-spring-spring-winter-spring-spring-spring-spring

We'll call it "the first six months of this year in Wisco"

[B.C. Creations]

After we finish them, over to the wet saw. We slice them up, and then reassemble them so it looks like:

winter-winter-winter-winter-winter-spring-winter-winter-spring-winter-spring-spring-winter-spring-winter-winter-spring-spring-spring-spring-winter-spring-spring-spring-spring

We'll call it "the first six months of this year in Wisco"

hahahahahahaha.



no i dont think i want them to be 'put' together with gong fittings. i think that will look too cobbled.

[IndiePendent]

No they definitely should not fit together that would look jank lol.

On a different note. We should prolly figure out what colors to get..... ideas gentlemen?

[FizZle]

i dunno bout u guys...i like star white...for a white

[IndiePendent]

I would say star white for the snow, raven for the black wheels and any accents, orange or yellow for the body of the piece, and some combination for the reversals in the wheels.and such. This is all going off of zoars snow blower idea

[Icarus]

I like Coyle Condensers list for clear, it looks to me like it would cover most of our needs:

50mm hvy tubing
30mm hvy tubing
22mm hvy tubing
1/2inch hvy tubing
9mm hvy tubing

30mm rod
1 inch rod
1/2 inch rod
10mm rod
8mm rod
6mm rod

As for colors, I was thinking something like "NS - Star white (or similar)", "TAG - Stardust", cobalt, NS - jet black, maybe some lighter opaque blues, etc...

[IndiePendent]

If we wanna do vack stacks we will need 25mm tubing for the inside

[B.C. Creations]

thoughts on paper of what i had in my head......just a thought. we dont have to go with this idea. we can do something else.

[B.C. Creations]

i like the list but not sure what the sponsors will be able to donate. i will get them a list and go from there.

this is comin up soon! cant wait!


i will have most of that raw in my shops stock for sure. colors are going to be the hardest part to get on donations.

we can make multiple pieces if time allows us to. i could see doin this as a main piece and making a cpl smaller pieces to go along with it. just have to keep the theme as winter is all.

ideas on smaller projects?

[B.C. Creations]

winter team.....
zoarglass
fizzle
icarus
indiependant
isthmuscolor


THINK WINTER......(even tho you probly dont wanna)



dp

adding glassmonkey to our team

winter team.....
zoarglass
fizzle
icarus
indiependant
isthmuscolor
glassmonkey

[IndiePendent]

Soooooo did this idea die on the vine or what the fuck is up winter team! ;)

[Hazeey]

Just got the word that I'm in......and on the winter team! Soo pumped to meet you guys, been seeing your stuff for a while and can't wait to see all in action, let alone throw my 2cents in the mix. Have a feeling the learning curve is about to pop off, 3/4 to 2 overnight!!

[IndiePendent]

Welcome to the Winter team.....

We were going to make a functional snowblower... no idea what happened to that idea lol

[B.C. Creations]

thats the idea still. i think we got most of our plan on lock down.

we more than likely will have time to make more than one peice. any ideas on something a lil simpler?

welcome aboard glassmonkey. this is comin up quick. ill email you back in a bit with some more details.

dp

[Hazeey]

Snow flake/icesicle chillum? Fireplace shaped spoon w/ chimney mouthpiece, winter color implosion beads for a few wearables?

[Icarus]

The snowblower chute keeps on making me think of an errl curve. Or perhaps if we want to connect the bowl using a GonG joint, we could also make a nail holder and cover (yeah, I know they have a name, and I can't think of it right now) that could be swapped in place of the bowl. Not sure if we want to go in that direction (or if we want to keep the bowl as part of the main piece instead of a seperate piece), but if that is the case, perhaps a dish and dabber set to go with it? If not, perhaps a jar, chillum, and slider set to go with it, using the same color scheme or tube pull? Just throwing stuff out there.

Or perhaps , going off the ground joint idea, we want to make the body (in the drawing where the bowl is noted) just have a carb on the side, and we make the show chute the full chute arc, but have a recessed female joint at the top of the arc to receive a male ground joint slider. Then, each of us could also make a separate slider to go into it, so the piece comes with several different bowls, one made by each artist, but the piece itself is a team project.

Or, or, or, how about two recessed ground joints, one where the bowl is noted in the diagram, and one where I noted in the last paragraph. The carb is still built into the main body of the piece, and you can choose which female joint you want insert the slide into. The other side will get a solid plug with a marble on top to plug it. We could once again go back to the idea of each artist making a slide or plug (if they felt more like doing a marble type piece than a bowl).

Or we could abandon the ground joint altogether because that last paragraph is starting to border on gimmicky. What can I say, I was a Lego kid. I loved pulling shit apart and sticking it in different places. That was my favorite thing about metal pieces way back in the day. Picking up pieces here and there along the way that you one day assembled together and made your ultimate pipe (with the understanding that part of your ultimate pipe might be made out of repurposed lamp parts), and each one of those pieces had a story, though you might not fully remember it.

So yeah, that's kind of what was knocking around in my head.

[B.C. Creations]

not sure if i wanna use gongs on here? they are hard to hide and dont look fluid if you ask me. we can see when we are all standing there. i like the idea of making a set tho. that would be nice.

i like your second idea for a bub or tube project. that would be sick!

we need to come up with colors to order.

i say.....
unobtanium
star white
crayon orange or something similar
jet black



we need some other kinds of blues and what else? i got the clear list ready and i might have most of that in my stock.

[FizZle]

i vote poppy as the orange, second the star white/unob/Jet black...blue maybe NS Blue ice might be cool to have a little of maybe layer some over unobtanium...maybe some turbo cobalt, blue moon im down with pretty much anything though

[IsthmusColor]

What about red Elvis for the body of the snowblower? I can bring some Elvis tubing and rod. Smaller stuff snowshovel, snowshoes, snowman jar. I can see a winter scene with these pieces arranged on o pile of white frit.

[IndiePendent]

Zoar I agree on the gong thing. That is why we go recessed style ;)

[B.C. Creations]

somewhere someone had mentioned orange for the body but im down for either. if you can bring the elvis rod and tube that would be fine by me. we will use if for something.

ill put white frit on the list.....


dp


o ya.....we will have to talk about the gong thing when we all get together. not sure if i know what you guys are tryn to explain.....i do know what the recessed ones are tho

[FizZle]

...i dont think we need to attach all the seperate pieces togeather with gong...sounds kinda janky...but definitely gong for function

[Icarus]

I might be using the wrong terminology. Basically what I was thinking was doing a ring seal at the top of the female ground joint, so it's not exposed (so if you look at the piece in profile, you wouldn't know it was there) so it doesn't fuck up the flow of the piece, but allows you to change out bowls or put on an errl attachment.

I don't think the entire thing should be put together with ground joints, it might have sounded differently than that since I was talking about metal pieces from back in the day, that was more me going off topic and rambling.

[IsthmusColor]

we can use a female dewar gog to keep a low profile/hide the joints. I can bring those to.:twitch:

[FizZle]

im down with the elvis for sure rather than an orange...i like the idea of the recessed ground joint for sure...thought somone was saying that they wanted to try and make all the pieces attach to each other from each team with gong...that seems wonky to me...but definitely use gong for the piece and recessed would be cool...i have had no success accomplishing a recessed gong...soooo it would be sweet to see one of u pimps show how its done

[B.C. Creations]

i HATE using gong fittings. never had success making them look fluid. thats all i got

[IndiePendent]

i have the graphite tools zoar. try em when i come up.. you might change your tune.

[B.C. Creations]

ya who knows?

[IndiePendent]

Isthmus if you got a few dewars you would donate to the cause that would be all sorts of awesome.com. I can bring a bunch of male 14s.