Rollcall - introduce yourself!

Hi,
My name is Devin, ive been on the torch for two weeks and loving it. Not much of an artsy person but glass always amazed me, so i decided to pick up a torch and get started. Ive been obsessed since. The only oxy suppy in LA open on saturdays was closed this saturday, so ive been stuck off the torch the last three days and really learned the depth of this addiction.

Check out what ive done so far any suggestions are greatly appreciated since im still really just playing with the glass and getting a feel.

glassartists.org/devin

Hi everyone! I'm Courtney, I'm from NJ but live in South Florida now. I work with boro exclusively and I've worked with glass since I was 16 or 17 when I invaded my mom's workshop. I started with stained glass panels, moved onto fusing a little later and now I am a hot glass junkie. I was on the torch for about 2 consecutive years, taking a break for a whole year to convert a shed into a shop.

welcome folks

We wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves to this online glass community and provide all the readers here with a little bit of information about us and our history. Our goal with posting at this forum is to create awareness about our company, provide factual information about our products, offer technical support, and make customer service more accessible to the end user.

Origin Glass is a division of Elan Technology. Elan has been producing glass beads and powders used in the electronics industry for over 55 years. We are located in Midway, GA, just south of Savannah. We have a 100,000 sq ft manufacturing facility and employ about 60 people. Our parts are made by dry pressing a glass powder into a form and then firing the pressed part in a belt oven to make it solid. Many of the applications that our glass beads are used in require the glass to be fused to metal to form a hermetic seal. We have over 600 different types of glasses, each engineered for specific applications. Our technical products are supplied to some of the following industries.

· Aerospace
· Microelectronics
· Health Care
· Lighting
· Automotive
· Marine Systems
· Telecommunications

One of the parts we used to make was called a gunmount. This is a borosilicate glass bar that is used as a support for the electron tube in CRT television. Us and several other manufacturers in the U.S., including Corning, were making these parts. Apparently some Boro Artists came across some rejects from Corning and began to use them. Some of the well known gun mounts called White Dwarf and Green Dwarf were likely to have been from Corning. About 5 or so years ago Corning stopped making gunmounts. Some artists learned that we also made the gunmounts and approached us to start making glass bars in a variety of colors for them. Until recently, the bars were either sold as a generic brand or private label. A lot of confusion was being created with our glass being sold under several brand names and different color names. To clear up the confusion and unify the numbering and names of the colors we created the brand “Origin Glass”. Over the past year we have been working diligently to improve our glass, and expand our color pallet.

Nice to have you, Origin Glass! Please post in the classifieds what you have to offer so we know what to ask you for, and don't forget to let us know when you have sales! :D

Have fun on the forum.

I'm Nick.
I haven't working yet but hope to be by the end of the month.
A friend gave me the link here and said it would be a big help on starting out.

Wurm here.

Been a long crazy couple of years. Fired up the torch tonight for the first time since Katrina. I'm rusty to say the least, but that heat feels so good on my face.

Glad to be back.

I have stories for days, but I hate typing. Hoping to see some peoples at Bonnaroo so I can catch up on what's been going on in the glass community.

~Peace

benjamin been on the torch since 95' as of 2007 i'm swearing off prodo sofar so good

Im back again,I wish their was more time to post on here for me,work and family life take up most of my time nowadays!,but I'll try and contribute more than I have in the past.
C-

Hello all, Just moved to colorado from minnesota and loving it (except for constant temps in the 90's). been on the torch for 7 years now i think and somehow find a way to make a living at it. hopefully i won't get too addicted to this site like the old ezboard, but i'm glad to be around.

Philippe Cashaback in whitehorse, yukon aka Cash - 28 yrs old. Computer guru by day, havin fun the rest of the time. Glass blowing on a red-max for 1 yr.

Ben Burton here.

Been lampworking since January 1999 on the island of O'ahu, Hawaii.

I love playing with fire, and I hold a bachelors in training ninja's to tiptoe better.

Aloha

Sounds like you last back of joiners have some good experience to share.

Welcome aboard/back again, look forward to hearing some more from you and hear you sharing your thoughts.

Hey all,
I'm dOc, 27, from Philadelphia. I am in the process of getting into flameworking.(gathering information) I particularly want to work with borosilicate, making sculptures, marbles and lots of interesting functional objects. (we'll see what happens) I have been interested in glass for a long time but didn't have the outlet for creating until a year or so ago when I got into glass fusing/PMC class with my girlfirend.

Just finished reading Flameworking: Creating Glass Beads, Sculptures & Functional Objects by Elizabeth Mears to get a background on the terms and things like that. Will be getting the CONTEMPORARY LAMPWORKING books soon.

I am a CADD technician by profession working in the engineering field. I have lots of hobbies in my spare time and am looking at trading in some of them for flameworking. I tend to obsess over my hobbies so I'm sure I'll have lots of questions and things for the forum. This seems to be the most active forum that I have found on the topic and I look forward to contributing.

Finally I think I have found an outlet for my creative energy. See you all around.
-dOc

Hey im tone, Im from columbus,Ohio. Ive never lampworked in my life but im hoping with the help of this community i can be led in the right direction. Ive always been into art, and glass work has always intrigued me. I have a whole lot of nothing to do, So im looking for a rewarding hobby. I think i chose the right one. I am ready and willing to invest every and anything i can into this hobby. Any information would be greatly appreciated i just need pushed into the right direction :)

tonE

welcome, you're sure to find tons of helpful info around here.

Can't wait to get the ball in motion :)

Hi,

I am Deborah Conti and I have been teaching lampworking for 8 years...First in Des Moines IA, now in Washington, DC. I just moved here a year ago and have begun teaching and playing and spreading the addiction at The Washington Glass School, in Mt Rainier, MD. I'm starting a lampwork program to add to the other classes..fusing, scraffitto, neon, El-wire. etc. Great guys, great creativity. I, myself, work on a barracuda and am now playing and blowing with more off-the-wall glass...plate, ppg, colored plate, recycled...whatever scraps we have hanging around. Getting some neat effects. If you are ever in the area, come visit us, or go to the web site and take some classes here.
www.washglass.com

I'm Robin, I raise my demon spawn for a living. I'm 30 and I like to bake cakes and be a ninja in my spare time. Woot. :bouncy:

) know robin, dhrd fraking hot, and a FREAK in the sac

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) know robin, dhrd fraking hot, and a FREAK in the sac

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Dwaine, you are always such a sweet talker, except in the sack, all that crying for mommy is a tad weird.

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Dwaine, you are always such a sweet talker, except in the sack, all that crying for mommy is a tad weird.

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hey you have your fetish, I have mine

Hey All,
My name is Michael aka Bar. Hailing from Eugene, Or. Been on the torch since '01. Most of my Life after Torch has been spent on production. Am now finally in my shed/shop and feelin my oats. I want to personally thank all who have came before me for laying the foundation I am about to build on. May the Glass Gods always smile on you.
Namaste

Genuine newbie greenhorn here! My name is Mike Geurin. I hail from Roswell, N.M. I am The Culligan Man/ Plumber for the last 19 years. Been into soft glass for about a month and this hobby is worse than crack! I have been into flying model airplanes and helicopters for the past 17 years. My loving wife got me hooked on this glass flameworking stuff. I must say " I LOVE IT!" Looking forward to reading here alot and learning as much as my brain will hold. Great site.:D

I'm nate carter from spokane wa, you may know me as a burnout, mentally broken down nervous wreck with an undying obsession that is borosilicate. I've been blowing glass for 11 months now, After 2 months I felt like I needed some help so I went to Eugene and spent a few days with poppa Snod, In those few days I learned some skills that serve as a VERY solid foundation, learning how to control my torch and how to move glass around was far more important than learning whoopy-do's and bitch windows....upon arriving home I immediately shut myself away from the world, shot the woman into space, ate my kids, killed all my friends and locked myself in the shop. The rest as they say, is history.......

http://www.glasspipes.org/Gal19653_Nate_Carter.asp

I'm off to lick my reballs. peace.

Hey Nate, check out this thread you got a vote for someones favorite GP artist! :D

http://www.thegldg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11931

Hi all, I'm Brandon, 26, been blowing for ten years this october and happier than a pig in shit about it.

brandon in b0ston?>

Hello, we have been working with boro about a month and a half. We are makeng sliders and down stems, spoons, chillums, and a few sidecar steamers. We would like to meet some other blowers in texas and or take some lessons. thanks for all the info.

Steve

whats up I'm a boro worker mostly but have been doing soft glass for longer. i'm really into art in all forms I tattoo as well as paint and so on . Glass is my newest thing and by far the most challenging'

The name's Tyler Axt, though my friends call me Doug (long story).
I'm from Longview, WA.
I started glassblowing for my senior project in March of '07.
Since then I have happily surrendered my social life to the glass gods. :D

Sinbad aka "Blair Sr"
got my first lesson on the torch in 1975
opened my first store in 1995 after
coming back from "Kuwait" prior Military... :)

Hi from another newbie - my name is Linda! My husband and I have been collecting glass for about the last 20 years (he gave up rocks for glass) until we now have a massive amount of glass. He collects about 500 pounds + per month from various studios. We have kept the glass from different studios seperate to keep it consistent. About 80% of the glass is 104 soft glass. We have been going through it and smashing it into frits and collets for the glass artists. To see examples of this glass in use visit our website RecycledArtGlass.com.

We are not running a hot shop at this time even though he would like to be. He was a weekend glass instructor with a studio. We moved back to the mountains and he took all his glass with him making small hills in the mountains and a lot of it is most likely to become a part of the landscape. He has collected some serious art glass from studios who have their art glass works in the Smithsonian.

We are looking for help from artists who would like to try our Recycled Art Glass in their warm and hot glass projects - especially artisan using 104 coe. We will be offering the best deals we can to members of this forum. Please email us and introduce yourself.

I stay busy crushing and screening glass, usually supplying local artists throughout the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas - San Jose, CA included. For the last 15 years at the local craft markets I'm known as the "Glass Lady" selling art glass in every shape from fused glass rounds to blown vases to the fun stuff from blowers - the odd balls - spin offs and blow tests. I have been asked by other vendors at new markets what I'm selling and I usually answer - broken glass - and they are astonished by the number of people who shop for just that "broken glass" and look for me at the markets. The glass has been used in everything from zen sand raked in zen boxes to hot shops to masonary aggregate and garden aggregate. While doing this we have kept the cleanest and the best of the glass to the side to be used by glass artists.

We don't hoard the glass and enjoy sharing it with other glass artists who simply want to play or test it or try it out in their art by giving it away free samples on the website RecycledArtGlass.com.

I'm excited to be part of this forum as I think it will be an outlet for our Recycled Art Glass to other glass artists. I'm looking forward to seeing what can be done by different artists with this glass.

This is my introduction to my strange world of art glass recycling. About all we talk about is GLASS, glass, glass and cats. Need a kitten?????

Nice to meet you folks!
Linda

Lewis Flameworks aka Craig Lewis

26 yrs Austin,TX Born n raised and still reside!

And Yes It's HOT !!!!! All the time..... need a.....safety break:chilling:

Been blowing and going full time since '01

attended AGI this year and it was Awesome Baby!! Can't wait for next year!
Thanks Tom and Elaine - you guys Rock!

This is my first post so hopefully more to come.

Welcome to the board Craig! Nice to see you here finally!

Agi was da bomb, wasn't it? :D

Hello i'm new here but not so new to the glass. I've been blowing since been blowing since been...about 8 years.t. So i'm from Texas...like these other guys said above me it's hot hot hot...I work outside usually so no AC shop for me...it might be time to fix that? Anyways thats about all of my intro.

Ber

Berhooha. . . where you been
I think that liquid tank you were renting here is still out behind the shed
-B

Oh shit really? I hope that wasn't in my name...with my luck it probably was damn thats been there for like 6-7 years if so. You would think the company would know where they sent it and come to look for it and not leave it up to some flake glassmakers.

Ber

My name is Paul B. I live in Springfield, MA. I am recently getting back to glass working after a 2 year hiatus. I am getting the skills back and hoping to improve every day. My focus is marbles, marbles marbles. how to make em bigger, better, rounder and sicker......nothing quite like spinning that glowing orange glob, and having it come out how you "thought it would." I've been glass blowing about 10 years at this point.

I like writing, music, playing music, Live Music (Ghoti, Dead, Drunk Stuntmen, Wilco, Hank III)

I am a single Dad



"you can turn your back on a person, but never Turn your back on a drug."
Hunter S. Thompson

jewelry-fan here, aka Maraya. Hello, guys.