Lookin good CriP :)
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Lookin good CriP :)
Man I have the same issue on my 8m...from what I am told the flame is just naturally too reducing.Quote:
Originally Posted by CripSkillz
I can get them to come out nice on anything solid, even as a backing on a pendant so I dont know if its the torch or me when it comes to hollow work.
Guess that didnt help much, Sorry. Your work is lookin great though.
yup same deal for me Jethro, on solid stuff i can get teh perfect colors but on the hollow stuff i cant seem to burn it off b4 i deform my piece and that sucks..
n thx guys '
i finally dleved my first cobat tube, did the spikes and fumed it, probally need more but off a 3 inch piece sleved with 38x4 i got 2 nice pices, so next time i think ill jsut make a bigger one and have a lot, that was the eaisest color tube i have made yet..
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3848.JPG
lookin spiffy crip.
i jsut got my first black / cobalt tubes too... i need more.
WEEe so Im kinda stoked, teh guy down at teh cig store is going to give me a lil shelf space and let me put a sign up for local glass artist stuff, and do a consignment so thats kinda cool, i need to make some cool stuff now to put next to all the imports, that actually look better than most of my stuff, have to see how that goes , i think ill have to just make somethin thats a lil different wonder what that will be....
looking good.
dude i love the sidecar from the page before!
Thx guys,
well check this out i think i got a good pull on the cobalt gold silver fume, i see green in it now and i bet itll get better as i work it down, but did like 6in this time so i got a good chunk of tube now, hopefully i dont jack it up..
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3849.jpg
Lookin good man...heat that sleeved tube up ssslllooow when you go back to use it...they like to crack/explode especially around the air bubbles.
Also if it's your first blue tube...try messin with some fume and dots or wrap 'n rake people love em and it's easy quick stuff.
it is my first blue tube, so i will try some of that, deff gona get more i like it.
well i got lucky she didn't explode, but i did use the kiln to bring it up to temp 1st,
kinda got a lil crazy with the disco sparkle , oh well probably would have looked better all fumed tube, but im kinda stoked on it, drop stem came out perfect it was cool 4th try is a charm ahhah
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3856.jpg
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3859.jpg
well , the can and the mouthpiece look awesome. :D
BLING BLING!!! you can use this as your new theme song.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m4ngo4KIfds
That stem's crazy Crip:dieslaugh Seriously though,I agree with you all fumed would have really tied the piece together nicer,but we gotta experiment. Nice piece other wise,though,nice color with the blow-ins.
daaank man...well done with the disco stem. i have trouble getting that shit to sparkle.
what size tube did you make the texture trap with? love the colours, lately i have been making old school inside out fume/cobalt stuff, but i really wanna try this tech too
Nice, the blowins are looking better and better.
I like the disco too,defenitely bling.
How did you make it, mix the disco and stripe the outside?
Nice work. I really like how those blow ins look.
very nice crip. glad to see you doin encasements. shit is fun. whaen you do the silver and gold, do a llil silver and then gold. dont need much silver, then try dif amounts of gold to get diff colors. hell yeah !
Thx guys thx, still encasements not blowin ins, still having trouble blowin in, and the disco is coil potted and stretched into the neck, as for the tube im using 26x4 blue and 38x4 to sleeve it, i ordered 32 x 4 and it was just too small so i had to wait till i got the 38 fit in super easy and melted in nice..
I defin think you got a real future in glass. To think your still working off that little torch and only working a few hours with no hands on instructions. You defin got my respect.
Reminder to everyone just starting out it doesn't take a 2000 dollar torch to make nice stuff.
well thx Jay shit, I got all kinds of instruction right here, everything i know is right from this forum, so basically you all my teachers i just regurgitate what i see, well try anyways hahah
ya i paid 150$ for my torch and kiln, had to do some repairs n shti but was wll worth it,
and why does everyone think my torch is so small, hehehe i never even whipped it out, it does have a sm21 on the bottom and a ryder on top, so that cost me more than the original setup like 200$ more but well worth it to have a big burner on the bottom it comes in hela handy, cant wait to try a big torch someday, i might really like it.. but i get hot in front of my lil torch so i dont know if ill ever be going tooo big
Big J you made the 420th post on my thread weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee im gona go celebrate for you...
hey crip right there with ya, if you gotta minute can you run through assembly steps. when to blow holes? I'm doin a sherly bub right now, and I'm going for the third attempt. any help appreciated. peace
Humm well, I put the stem in the can and push the bowl so that hole is already in there, then i blow the hole for the attachment spot for the mouth piece and flair it to the right size, then i punty up to it and pull off the blow tube end and its ready to attach, after its attached and the seal is good ill blow the carb hole and decorate,
I just got done with 2 days of marbling with RichSanta and it was cool as hell, had a good time and made my first big marbles and there big i was stoked, im not gonna put any pics up yet cuz rich took pics and has a better camera so ill just wait,
but they came out really good i think, well have to wait till later to seee..
haven't torched so much in in my life, actually almost emptied a tank and a half..
now im gona take a break till later
oh ya marble molds are the shit now I know why you have to have one.
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Originally Posted by CripSkillz
thanks for the replies. I'll post some pics when I get time to try the sherly bub. peace crip
I want to thank Crip for his generosity - thanks!!!!!
Here are the pix of his FIRST big Boro marbles.
Each one is abut 1 3/4" in diameter.
The pix are not in order.
I can't tell you how proud I am at Jason's progress in 2 days!!!!!
The dichro skull marble was his FIRST big Boro marble ever!!!!!
Santa
Here are some I made at Crips place during my visit as demos for him to learn from.....
Oh yeah, here is my gift to Crip!!!!!
Wow, that one with the reddish looking mesh inside, what is that.
Nice mibs by the way. Both of you! The skull dicro is pretty bad ass.
nice marbles. the wheelchair one is just missing the girl giving him a bj.
Looks like you guys had some fun,right on!
The reddish/orange stuff inside my marbles is copper.
HEHEH weeeeeeee hell ya it was a great time, and i learned a lot so thanks again Rich, was really cool of you to come up and share some tips and torch.. defiantly good to watch someone else do there thing, learned things to even make my own work better, i guess everyone does things a lil different.
so heres what i made last night using up the last 500# of oxy got 5 pieces,,
Im liking that cobalt tube, so i just ordered some more, and some black and red, those might be fun as well, we will seee..
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3876.jpg
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3878.jpg
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3880.jpg
here is what i did last night, not to good not to bad but,
I just cant get my amber purples to come out purple no matter what, I have the flame hissing, I try to pin point it on the color n urn off the haze it just wont go,
Is there a trick you guys know that could help me cuz I hate the way they look always reduced, Im even working it like 10 in out in the flame tried everything still cant get the good color unless its a solid piece of the color...
oh ya and all my gold dots seem to have burnt out of the clear piece so that was a waste of time
oh well im going to go try some more in a bit so well see if i can make something better..
thx 4 lookin
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3890.jpg
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3894.jpg
very nice pieces man
Thx man
heres a few i did last night, had a buddy over and let him play in the fire for a bit he made a nice lil blob heheheh
these were fumed silver lined with clear then fumed gold and lined with clear then encased in 38x4 made some thick pieces, and the new scissors necking tool worked awesome to make the mouth pieces, anyways heres the new
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3895.jpg
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3898.jpg
http://cripskillz.com/pics/gldg/3900.jpg
im just in awe i dont know how the fuck you guys do it. whenever i try i cant get it as thick or as colorful. im still lost on how to do reversals and how you guys COMPLETELY encase the inside with color like in the stemless above. i am in awe,
Chad the stemless above is outside color striped onto a tube. And the middle section is raked.
Crip looking good mang, for the amber puprle, just try and take a rod and burn off the tip until it gets clear, that will show you what it take to burn off the haze. Then to strike it, use a neutral flame to oxydizing flame. If you use a reducing flame it will turn all milky and ugly looking.
Really coming along nice Crip. What kind of torch are you working on? Just curious. That stemless is pretty bad ass.
As for the necking tool - are you necking it down then snapping it off or blowing out a thin spot and flame cutting? I've been trying to use my disc nippers like cosmo does in his w/r tut but I keep breaking out chunks and having to wipe off the mess. They just don't seem to want to cut the shit even when I pull it out really thin with the intention of reducing it back down to thicken it back up.
Chad, spend a lot of time reading here and watching youtube vids. There are also a couple good tut's over at glasspipes.org Takes a while, but you'll start to see things more clearly as you begin piecing it all together. Torch time is the best tutor aside from an actual teacher on a torch. Keep plugging away and pissing away money on glass and it'll come to you. I'm just now getting w/r pipes down and I've been at this for about 5 months now - takes time!