Denial
10-09-2012, 01:57 PM
So, I've been working with tube for about a month now, mainly implosion marbles and some random pipe action.. This question is pertaining to my marbles and other closed solid masses made with tube. I am constantly getting this little, or sometimes larger, bubble in the solid mass. It looks like the tube isn't fully closed while working it in the flame, it looks like an air line basically when you start to close a tube and you have that tiny line going through the glass you know to keep working it and close it up more until that goes away.. This is like a larger version of that, problem is I keep working it and working it, mainly keeping the tube straight with the table, not using elbow down or up its just straight with the table, then ill try elbow down like you would to gather glass and go back to the first one. Sometimes it gets smaller, sometimes it doesn't. My mainly problem is I can never get it to go away completely and it's taking a lot longer to get it to close up or go away then I think it should.. Something just isn't right.. So my question is, what the hell is this, I know its a bubble, but how do I get it to go away, or remove it from the mass? I've even tried tearing glass off the top before closing the top and melting it into a sphere, this leaves me with a smaller bubble sometimes but it also takes a lot away from the size of the marble and pulls the art..
If anyone can help me out in the least, I'd be very thankful, I don't know why I'm having such a problem with such a simple thing.
Here are a couple pictures on a little implosion I did quick just to show what I mean.
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If anyone can help me out in the least, I'd be very thankful, I don't know why I'm having such a problem with such a simple thing.
Here are a couple pictures on a little implosion I did quick just to show what I mean.
4258442585