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This is my newest piece I am working on. I think I am going to turn it into a production piece with dichro, cobalt, and illuminati?
I am selling them to distributors for $60 right now. Feedback appreciated. I have been through years of art school critiques and I have a tuff skin. I think I can handle it.
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These are all color cobalt spoons. I make them for a local shop.
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Black light pics of Sherlock bubblers.
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I make a lot of wrap and rakes for catalog.
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I make a lot of wrap and rake for catalogs because they order big. It cost me a lot of money in glass to keep enough in inventory to do orders of 100 pieces. So wrap and rake is the cheapest because it uses mostly clear.
I would do all color spoons for catalogs but it cost too much money to keep 3 or 4 cases of color tubing in stock all the time for orders of 100. I make them for a shop in batches of about 50 right now. The guy has to wait for me to order supplies and make them. So it takes about 2 weeks to deliver.
RIght now I only keep about 1 case 25.4 mm heavy wall and another case of assorted rods and tubes.
it's cool to see you doing some new stuff. I thought I saw you doing something with dichro on fb? Maybe an ornament or pendant?
Yeah I make dichro pendants sometimes. I sold all of them so no pics.
I have a couple ornaments saved up.
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I get $20 retail for these.
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$25 retail for these though too.
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Dichro stem wine glasses $30 retail.
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Artist of the month exhibit at the temple in Newburgh NY.
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Pendants are $20 marbles are $30 paintings are $100
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I like the bubs. If I had to critique anything I would say make the stripes of illuminati oppose each other or have a more equal spread across the wig wag reversals. They look a little off balance with all the UV on one side. Also if you're looking to add some more flare I might suggest some crisp Maria's where you have bubbles: mouthpiece, connection bubble, base bubble. Something that brings the theme together over the different sections. Looks good though!
im def still a newb so take this with a grain of salt. I like your new bubblers your doing, but personally i think you should widen the base. Some of them from the pictures dont look like there sitting on much. Ive been working on getting my cans nice and fat lately.
Yeah I have it half uv light so it looks colored in any light. It is like a wave design.
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I make the base with about 3 inches of tube in that section. But I will keep in mind. They are thick and heavy.
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Hey Nomad,
Great to see your new work man! I like the bub's but the mouthpiece leaves a bit to be desired, I am not sure if the bubble near the connection is sending wierd signals to my brain or if I smoked to much weed today. I am not fit to hold your punties so I probably shouldn't do advise, but ya never know if its a good idea or a bad one until your girl friend kicks you to the couch for the night.
I think most snorkel bubs have the snorkel on the other side.
What air bubble on the mouthpiece?
Snorkel bubbler? Other side?
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The last order I shipped.
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Getting ready for the dead coming to New York. Got my concert t-shirt.
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I am not making that many grateful dead milli spoons this year. They don't sell the milli on facebook anymore. The dancing bear was very expensive and I only got like 7 out of the piece I bought. So I will not be doing it again. I had it because I made a custom piece with a dancing bear on it. I had the customer buy the milli for like $40. Then I made two spoons with it for another $20. It was my brother who ordered it for a christmas present so that was as hooked up as I could do. I had enough milli for another 5. So I included it the last order.
Last year I gave a spoon to a friend that had a 50th anniversary milli on it. I was given a real cool t-shirt with the same design from the concert for it. The spoon was amber, which was a second, because my orders were for only red and blue spoons. I accidently made an amber one and gifted it to someone.
Glass will be available on tour through my distributor.
I got tickets to one night city field in Queens NY and one day at SPAC in Saratoga Springs NY.
I just scored tickets to see Phil and Friends at the Capitol Theater also. I have been trying to get tickets for Phil the past three times and got shut out. I was there waiting on line and it sold out in 2 minutes. But I will see Phil and Warren Haines one night too.
I am so broke from all these concert tickets....
i like the bubblers, and i like dichro, but i'm not sure the dichro horn works on the bubbler.. it sort of sticks out like a sore thumb. maybe you could add a bit more dichro, mib on the mouthpiece or can or both, or if that gets too glitzy there's always fume zanfirico. that stuff is easy to make in batches.
it reminds me of the reason you never use black paint in a still life, because nothing irl is black, and it's like BOOM! BLACK!!! NOW!!!!
are you pulling your own tubing for the wags? they look good.
Just inside out with encased cane for the wags.
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I could put another reversal for mouthpiece and a dichro disk marble on it too. But I am trying to keep the cost down. I have done fully worked doublers also but I need $350 each and the demand is not that high.
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I have used colored tubing too. But I am trying to keep the costs down.
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Sometimes i dont know how to come at you without sounding dickish, but just a disclaimer, I am not trying to be a dick brother.... but those bubs are cool, and I give you hella props if you get 150$ for them, and 350$ for a doubler...... but the reason the demand is not that high is because those are absolutely not worth that price, maybe half that if you gave them a little more love and added a few accents and some more reversals. I make this type of stuff super regularly, more power to you if you can get that though, but I am sure that i couldnt, and I make these designs regularly (not the doubler) but I only get 75-100$ retail for a fully worked, coil potted sherlock bub that is made in full color, with accents, rettis and whatever else i decide to do. Your price structure is stuck back in the 90's manQuote:
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it should not take a full day to make one of those either, your stretching it, I can make four or five in a day at the least, and I am still very newb,
I could make a few. I have a couple customers.
Coil pot is not as strong as clear tubing. Colored tubing is not as strong either.
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I make one and 5 spoons in half a day. I have to garage the piece and make a spoon at least 3 times. So it takes a long time.
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I have made 3 in a long day plus spoons. Two would be normal day. One because it is all prodo type work now.
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Your prices and time estimate are worse then Tony's. You sure you don't know him?
I worked my ass off for that guy making 3 headies in a day once. I don't plan on that ever again. But I have to say I made more glass for that guy in a day then anyplace on a carlisle cc.
Like I said I get $60 now. I used to make $100 hour bubblers on my website in the 90's. That was awesome.
But you are right it might be possible with a lot of practice to make it in an hour. Just without attachments and marbles.
On the weekends I paint. This is today's still life.
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not really man, I get more for my spoons than you. I make a standard wrap and rake with the same materials, and get 12$. I have an order of 60 due tuesday.... I am going off of my distributors pricing, and its just a fact that there is not much work in those fabulous bubs your making. I love the design, I even started making those style reversals because I had never seen them til you posted these, but todays pipe market is not gonna go for those prices on those bubs. I think its great that you sold them and all, but the only thing I am responding to is that you said there is not much of a market for them, and that is not true, there is a huge market if the price is reasonable. I put about that much work into a Bub, and I might get 25$ from a store, and when I use colored glass (coil potted) I can get a little more despite doing way more work. As well, i work my coil pots and they are as strong as any colored tube for sure, condense and blow out a few times, and the stress is gone.
So I get more for the one of a kind limited production.
I charge $6 for plain wrap and rake. Comes down to 50 cents to make plus 15 minutes. Maybe 5 an hour if I was in a race. So I am happy with that.
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I get $12 for a production bubbler that takes 20-30 minutes. Less then $1 in materials to make.
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I have all these paintings saved up for a show this summer. No nudes allowed. One man show.priced between $100-$300.
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