Here is what I did this week. I made 73 pendants, its about 32hours of works. Hopefully i can keep this up, and start doing this every week.
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Here is what I did this week. I made 73 pendants, its about 32hours of works. Hopefully i can keep this up, and start doing this every week.
Nicely done dude
Wow sick work dude. Love the effort and the number of pendants you churned out.
Thanks for the encouragement guys,
Doing production type work definitely takes some fun of glassblowing away, but i am trying to press through it. I am still looking for the best way to sell these. I have been mostly selling them without a necklace, but i think they will do better with a necklace. I tired braiding up some hemp, but not sure its worth my time yet.
Here's the worst part of working more, It just gives me more chances to hurt myself.
the pic is good, and your pendants are stacking up nicely, but lets hear the gory details, it makes it all so much better :D
how the hell did you burn yourself? ouch! hope you have a quick recovery!
looks like a pendant size burn...**chuckles**
nice array of pendants.
I just finished making a sherlock, and i have been playing with making them stand, so i set it down in front of my torch to get it to balance. Then i just went to grab it with a pair of tweezers, and stuck my hand right in, and to make it worse the outer flame was on. It was a full retard moment, but I did get some aloe on it right away. Definitely is the worst burn i have had in a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by istandalone24/7
Here is what i did this week. I was only able to do 25 or so hours, so its not that much. I mostly made sherlocks, but i also made a couple spoons and 10 more pendants. I had a good amount of trouble with the sherlocks and pipes. Out of the 28 sherlocks i tried to make only 16 of them were sell able, so their were 8 complete failures, and 4 that cracked but i think i can fix them. I have also started an etsy account. I have only put up a couple pendants, but i will get more of them up today. If you want to check it out i will put a link to it https://www.etsy.com/shop/LandsGlass
As always thanks for the comments
Holy shit, I just made my first etsy sale. I was not expecting that to happen so fast. I only posted up a couple pendants a few days ago. I really need to get more thing up on etsy.
nice work! i think the red blow in pipe has the best shape out of all them, you really nailed that one. i like how consistent your loops on the pendants are i need to go work on that. im about to empty my T today and i got no ride either feel your pain.
Hey man,Quote:
Originally Posted by dplaza
thanks alot, I hate running out of gas, so i now have two 300s, and two 5gal propane tanks. Now i only have to get refills every week or so.
nice i only have one T tank for now because the deposit was like 300 bucks, so when i go on monday to exchange im gonna try and setup an account so i can get another and get my deposit back.
I hope you arn't burning through those two 5gal propane tanks fast, I run (THREE) 281cubic ft oxy tanks. I can burn through 6 of them for every propane tank. The propane lasts a long time!
Lol,Quote:
Originally Posted by truedef
I was just saying when i run out of propane i have a back up ready. I get like 3+ oxygen tanks per 1 propane tank or so, but i have 300 oxygen tanks.
Here is my last couple days of work. I was really struggling earlier this week, I just could not blow out an even bubble or keep things on center, so i just stopped working, and walked away before i broke something. Then the next day things just seemed to work. I was pulling perfect points, and was having a much easier time making glass do what i want it to do. I still need to work on my shaping and bowl pushes, but things are getting a bit more comfortable
Just a quick tip on the carbs, IME putting the carb closer towards the stem part of the piece instead of towards the back, makes for allot more comfortable hold, also you might want to put them down a littler more from the bowl, so your custys arent burning there thumbs! Other than that, your progressions looking good! keep it up!
Yeah i see what your saying. I did not even think about people burning their fingers. I will try to go a little further back and a bit down next time i make pipes.
Thanks for the advice
Well I tired to get some work done yesterday. I made 16 chillums, which is a pretty good day for me. Except i know i could have made more, but once the sun went down i was literally swarmed by mosquitoes. I really need to put up a screen door, or put some side vents in, so i can work more during the night. I also tried to melt some glass today, but it is just to hot outside, and i could not focus on what i was doing. I made one chillum and it took an hour,and the usually only take me 20 or so. :bangHead: