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Hey steak really enjoying your progression thread, you're killing it with some of those pieces man!
Have you thought about getting in touch with Roor? Not a huge studio but they might have space for a talented guy like yourself once you are done with your course. I know a guy that works with the owner so if you are interested let me know and I'll see if I can put you in touch.
Also in the UK here so if you ever fancy doing some teaching I love travelling and blowing glass haha
keep it up man
thank you very much for all the kind words
actually i got in touch over some scientific stuff with the son of the owner of roor, and he was surprised that someone like me exists in germany hehe
i showed him some pictures and stuff i made and he asked me if i have a job after the scientific aprenticeship....working for roor would be a stoner dream coming to life hehe
but they are at the other end of germany , and i would have to move over there with my girlfriend and kid, i still have a year of scientific to go so its enough time that will pass that i can think about the future
greetings from the northcoast of germany
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Its all looking great man! Congratulations on the lathe at home. I'd love to hear more about it. I'd really love to know what it is and how old it is. Also curious if these are common to find there and what the general cost might they be. I love old equipment and I can only imagine what kind of awesome antique machinery you can find in Germany.
Keep us posted and greetings from the southern coast of California.
the lathe was build in 1982 in east german democratic republik, its a real heavy thing like 500kg
55mm is the maximum tube size it could grab and wich fits trough
ill snap some pics when im in the garage
oh and i made contact with some german companys wich make pipes, i dont want to call out names but they are well known over here
i found that the people were nice at first but after a while that changed the people were really snobbish and would talk me down or lie to me
maybe they think i am too much of a competition ..idk, one even wrote an anonymus e-mail to my meisters at school statin i would steal stuff and sell it, wich he of course knew was wrong, my meister didnt give a shit because he knows that i have never stolen anything in my life...
( i know who that was and im looking forward oi visit this ass after i finished my scientific aprenticeship)
( oh i know but he doesnt know that i know it...:D..)
my experience with the german flameworkers are mostly bad, big egos, greedy people and so on..... i hate to admit that, but maybe im such a awfull guy wich i dont think...
sorry had to get it off my chest
Wow the German scientific shits on the Americans.
i made some hollow pendants and two minitubes the last days of my holidays
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hope you like the pics
peace from germany :D
Cool idea with those hollow pendants, looking good!
thx
Keep it up
Damn Germans, always kickin' ass and taking names at everything they do! Great work man. Loving the scientific work, and the tube way up there with the slyme and some kinda blue sections!
thank you very much:D
wow definitely an inspiring progression log.
thank you, i wanted to Keep everything in one thread so i can see my own Progression or slap my forehead cause of the shit i did :D
i have holidays from school now for a couple days and i played around a bit, never tried anything like this before, this are my first two attempts really a step outside my comfort zone ,they´re hollow and i popped a hole in the head to connect them to something
how do you like them, any tips on making such things, or ideas what to make with it
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Kind regards from Germany
steak
has anyone of you some tips for sculpting? i made some other trys, and im not really satisfied with the results, i have problems with the eyes, not the eyeball itself but the socket and the lids, often i melted the lid and the eyeball together so that there was no definition anymore and i had to carefully sculpt it back with a little knife
i made the ones on the pics with standard wall tubing coated in frit, i made other trys with heavy wall tubing and it went a little bit better
kind regards steak
:)
Check out kravin glass's videos on YouTube.
]thanks i knew the Videos but they didnt help very much,
here some pics of the things that stayed intact
3 hole upline oil rig, handmade groundjoint on dome
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i hope you can see the pics i somehow have a hard time lately uploading Pictures
peace Steak :D
You might like this vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rka7I...eature=related
greez
some older stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOUCSqAmfHQ
hope the vid works
kind regards steak
Really enjoyed going through your progression ! Your work is beautiful and I'm excited to see what's to come... Thanks a lot for sharing
thank you very much,
kind regards from germany
steak
i didnt post for a long time because my scientific aprenticeship has ended in august and i had to learn much
heres some pics and a vid i hope you like it
kind regrads frank
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thanks for watchin
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Hi man, thanks for coming back and sharing. Hope you had fun at scientific school!
Looking good, frank! :D
hey yo, yeah thx, was super fun, but hard work and much theoretical stuff to learn also
and i work now for two days a week in a university here
:D
im low on colour and money so i tried fuming, never done it very much,
not really got the hang of the techs and so, but i must say im really loving it
here are some pendants i made with gold and silver fume, need to try it on hollow stuff next
but first im goint to search the forum for tips and tricks :D
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kind regards from germany
frank
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kind regards frank
Nice fume attempts! Its tough to get the hang of but worth it. :)
Jumping from page 1 to page 28. WOW. Inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
that was your first attempts at fuming? wow.
hi, yes this was my first trys i never had any gold or silver , i used silver nitrate before but wasnt really satisfied and stopped doing fuming, now
out of nothing it worked for me, the forum helped me a whole lot
:D
thx frank
i work now 3 days of the week in my own studio and two days in the scientific workshop at a university , so i can post pics again regularly
:D
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i hope you like them kind regards
frank :)
I like all those pendants a lot man!
thank you very much :)
more pictures , glasses and pendants :D
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kind regards frank
right on man, looking tight! those thin goblet stems will snap pretty easy, just letting you know. i made my fair share of thin stemmed ones till figured out a sort of minimum thickness. especially when its mostly colored glass, its often more brittle than clear it seems. the greenish one looks thick enough. that first pendant came out great too.
thank you, your right about the thin stems and snapping but, it was for somebody who wanted them fragile...:)
good for me if it breaks i can fix it :D
hi again, i wanted to make a teardrop shaped pushbowl for a customer but ran out of oxi before i could assemble it, but i took a pic and one of a silver and gold fume pendant i made before
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kind regards
frank