swirly shirly dichro thingy

[kage]

its been a while since i've taken any pics so here's something new. also this was my 1st attempt at making a glass stand. height is 14"

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z155/pyrorevolution/pipes/015-1.jpg

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z155/pyrorevolution/pipes/017-1.jpg

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z155/pyrorevolution/pipes/004-1.jpg

didn't really come out as planned but this is what i came up with. made with a tube of golden gate dichro and jet black

[mwc]

Awesome bends, cool stand. Nice job man!

[ALIEN!]

dude I almost choked on my generic ritz cracker.

http://www.glasspipes.org/Gal235905_It_s_a_Curly_Dangly_Hanging_Thing..asp

Did I play a role in inspiration or do we need to collab? We even think the same w/titles. :wtf:


PS that tubing is sexy shit !

[Kato]

Stanky gaddamn!

[innervision]

the color is great!
the form is out of this world!
the stand.....super cool.....(a flood of inspiration comes over me)
------two questions------
hows the draw on that piece?
Is seems to me that the spirals would constrict the air flow making a hard pull.
What would you do differently next time?

I really like this piece..thanks for sharing-----Jeff

[Aymie]

That is fucking beautiful.

[budman8778]

boss

[BK]

Digging that hard!

[Aussie]

Ding-a-ding-dang my dang-a-long-ling-long (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI)

[sleepingpeople]

nice work boss, i especially love the shadow the stand makes in the last picture.

[derekg0]

awesome piece! and that stand puts it over the top! Nice work!

[STROKER]

sweetness

[Mecha]

Excellent work. I love the flow of the curls. That stand is perfect too. It reminds me of an oil derrick.

[kage]

@ alien, thats wicked. i was wondering what this piece would have looked like in red lol even the names...wtf? great minds think alike ;)

actually this started out as a small custom 2 piece sherlock for a friend last sunday. he drew something up for me a while back. i wanted to use the gg tube, as its been floating around the shop for a while. i started testing the the tubing by seeing what it could handle by just making a couple of sections. it took a beating, great tubing, so it kinda went from the there. i then realized this would be a better as one big piece, so i just kept making sections and put off the custom piece for another day.

then i cleaned my bbq pit so i could make burgers thinking i'd put it together monday. but while the coals were heating up, my a.d.d took over and this started to come together. i abandoned one section that wouldn't flow and rearranged the design as i put it together. that little section in the middle was the original mouthpiece. i worked on the stand at the same time and annealled it the next day.

@ innerversion, i agree about the stand, its my favorite part, looks like metal. the draw is great. next time maybe bigger?

@ mecha, thanks for recognizing. inspriation for the stand came from darby's oil rig

[smolder holder]

Really sweet piece man! Nice work!

[Swampy]

Nice one, it says 'S' for Swampy! heh heh heh

[jello]

Nice work.... That tubing can take a beating fo sure...

[Dom]

Ok you made me want to order some tubing I saw the pics of the dichro tube but after seeing this I gotta get me some.

[kage]

forgot to say earlier but thanks everyone!

the golden gate dichro tube was bomb diggity. i remember jello posting somewhere that it was pretty durable. so i pushed it pretty far in all aspects to see what it could take. lots of heat and still blinging, out of the flame for really long periods too. will be getting more hopefully or learning how to make this goodness myself