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.