It all started watching furnace work at seve in spain. I found my footsteps in the door with pipes, as well as my day to day living. I love ornament season and goblet work the most though
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It all started watching furnace work at seve in spain. I found my footsteps in the door with pipes, as well as my day to day living. I love ornament season and goblet work the most though
A wine bottle and good friend got me into glass. Apprenticed for two years and went off to do my own thing.
In Colorado circa 96', May have been 95 anyway, I picked up this bubbler that I still have to this day. I have always had a fascination with Pipes and PipeArt since. And now Iam enjoying the whole Glassblowing experience and all that it has to offer, I have met so many Awesome people. To all my friends here @ TMP, Thx , what a great community..=)
test tubes, and sweat. Have you ever ate mapp gas cooked hot dogs? Uhh, youth these days. My buddy got my ass good, I was starvin and the first to eat. I asked if they were safe and organic prairie raised first though. Liars.
Neon, In 1986 I read an ad in Creative Loafing in Atlanta for an apprentice
glassblower. It was for making neon (signs). Worked 6 months for free. Then quit
my other job to work full time at the sign shop (Atlanta Neon Co.). Started my
own company in '88. Bought a bead making kit in '97 and started making fugly
beads. then I took a class on glass bead making at the Spruill Center for the Arts,
from Deanna Griffin (before the Dove). Went on from there.
I just really wanted an excuse to play with fire :)
Disneyland, New Orleans Square, age 10. Came out of Pirates and sat and watched the guy make figurines for two hours.
My actual answer to this would be my ex-girlfriend. We were 'an item', so that kind of counts? It went like "You're not doing anything, you should go take a glass lesson!". Okay, whatever. Sounds like fun.
I didn't see fire so I voted pipes.
So where's the button to push that says dildo? I had heard that people really enjoy them. I know I do! That's what interests me. :D
I saw this guy makin pinchies out on the porch at this place that I was taken to acquire some safety materials and a few weeks later saw him around town while on a hunt for more safety materials and after we accomplished that, he told me where he lived and that I could swing by whenever if I was in need of being safe, soon I was hanging out over there every moment I could spare that he was working. Eventually he said "Gimme $$ and I'll let ya on the torch" and the rest is history...never woulda gotten into it if circumstance hadnt cross my path and the path of that glass artist...
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I bought that pipe and couldn't figure out how the design was made so I did some research and kept researching until I bought all my equipment.
My biggest regret is taking this long to find lampworking, I love it. I love thinking about how many people out there are enjoying something I created and not to get all philosophical but I feel every pipe I make is one breath of my life preserved in a bubble.
A 5' or so tall giraffe at a gallery back home.
Trying to figure out how they put those flowers inside that little glass bead. :lol:
Your missing the option of FIRE!!!!!!!!!!
honeycomb technique. I wanted to make a nice one so badly. lol i mean I want to make a nice one so badly.
Pipes...and Pull Bowls...Around 1995 a friend was lampworking...I became utterly fascinated, so I scraped up $500 and spent it frugally on the minimum I would need to start melting glass...I even started with a used set of regulators and a really used Harris cutting torch with a propane tip...LOL
my ego bitches.
i cant believe i am the first person to say that.
i have to be a baller and there are no other professions that fit that one.
now i just gotta learn how to melt...
I started in a hotshop making paperweights. I got into pipes a few years later and it was the first thing that interested me wile working with the torch. I was blown away by an article about Bob Snodgrass in High Times magazine and I have been a pipe maker since.
At this point it's 71% pipes with the next largest category (marbles) at 11%. I think it's safe to say this is a pipecentric forum.
My father taught me stained glass back in 1987 in St. Paul, MN. We were both impressed by Louis Comfort Tiffany's style of creating or pouring and rolling glass to fit a particular design. I can trace that back to a waterfall in a Tiffany window that was on a poster in my fathers shop. That single piece of glass still inspires me.
Funny enough, he also told be about hookahs at a early age and pointed the Alice in Wonderland hookah out. In 1992 I created a ceramic hookah with stained glass inlays for windows, it had a light underneath too. I have a picture somewhere of that first smoking piece. With four tubes and a giant bowl, it was a traveling show in itself. I sculpted and worked on the wheel much more in ceramic over the next few years using stained glass accents...
In 1998(?) a close friend from jr and sr high school that moved to Oregon told me about the what he was doing in glass and that I could make one of my hookahs in blown glass. That man was Popa, he was at that time the head foreman of JBD. I drove out and visited him there and was taken back by the scope of the operation and the seemingly good times a group could have. He also brought me to a Prankster party and well, was really moved by the whole trip...
For me I`d say more the economic downturn and pipes. I`m a metalworker and the two industries that I spent my career in have been manufacturing and construction. The two hardest hit by a slow economy. A couple good friends worked on the retail side for a gut that owned a studio as well and they got me in for a quick crash course so I could possibly help as grunt labor, which never happened. But needless to say I was hooked and have spent all my time since trying to figure out how to do this all the time.
HMK and Dosa rigs got me interested in glass pipe art I love the way they look like creatures
I am trying to post my equpitment for sale on this site. I have completely rebuilt my torch and kiln so I know someone is getting quality- I have a Carlisle cc and f240 kiln. I have over 2000$ in stock glass(northstar and Momka) 38x4mm tubes as well as an assortment of clear. There is another umpteen amount of graphite tools( reamers, pads and paddles. Anyone that can help me sell this stuff as a package would be compensated. I also have regulators and hoses. I will make a more detailed list upon request and with the posting of the ad. Thanx for your interest 713-301-0020
Got a bubbler in a shop by Chris Rice (aka Pan at the time), then a few months later I saw Josh Simpson marbles in a gallery. That's when I decided I wanted to blow glass. I saw some more of Chris's marbles, and some Josh Sable marbles and was officially hooked and dove straight into marbles
I think sex toys should be added to the poll. ....
Butt plugs, smooth glass butt plugs. Thats what started my erotic love for glass. The first time i felt one I was in love, and had to blow.... some..... glass.....
bubblers.......I had a guy who would buy as many as I could make.
Thank god I found someone that shares the same passion. We should collab on a heady plugg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coal
Probably pipes. Shortly after becoming the young safety enthusiast that I was, I decided to google glass pipes one day. Gp.org was one of the first link and i saw pieces that absolutely blew my mind. I had seen a only a few spoons at this point so needless to say the things on that website shocked and excited me. Been interested in lamping ever since and finally got the chance to start recently.
1995, GD at Deer Creek parking lot. Got a nice little gold fume piece, but had no idea then. The magic of watching it change color. Which, for all you noobs, was actually still a mystery to 99% of people at the time. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on, and why it was changing color. HAHAHA....
After that moment, I was on a mission to figure it out. It turned into me seeking people out who did it, and then finally my oppurtunity to learn. 17 years later, here I am.
/\/\/\/\/\ jerrys last show.
I was there at Deer Creek back in 1995
I think it was June maybe July
But Jerry was still alive
All the kids in that parking lot
They tore that fence down
And I blamed them
For the second show getting cancelled.
I really wanted to go
I saved up all of my dough
I didn't go to any other shows
And I got my tickets M.O.ed
And I never missed a Deer Creek show
From '89 to '95
I was happy just to be alive
On my yearly Indiana vacation
But that was cut short by a bunch of jealous,
party bashin', buzz thrashin', gate crashin', stinky bastards
And if you're one of them
And you hear this song.
Fuck you, you cocksucking mother fuckers
shared sentiment
none of the above
Antique & cut glass got me interested. Pipes on Deadu tour had me want to learn and motivated me to seek out Snodgrass in Eugene in early 90's. While i was mining minerals in Ak. met a friend of Cameron Towers. Got in contact. 1 year later met Snodgrass, Bob Badtrom and Cameron. Apprenticed under Cam. Started making slides as 1st paid gig w otheru blower. Didn't work out.
So went back to Cam's shop to educate then went solo... still lamping since 1994 love glass! Just don't blow as frequently as i want. Started working for Corp america 5 years back to pay bills. Glass became a hobby... I feel the torch and scene pulling me back. Getn ready to lamp full time again. Flame on brothers and sisters.
Care to elaborate, or are you just trying to appear mysterious?Quote:
Originally Posted by mad alchemist
I've always been into functional art, and Mary Jane. A few years ago, I started looking into selling pipes. A little while after my research started I saw an ad somewhere about learning to make pipes and jumped on it. Pipes are where it started and frit sherlocks are still my favorite, but I find myself captivated by marbles now.
marbles all the way!!!
Ditto.Quote:
Originally Posted by p.j.
I started collecting marbles and then had an idea for a marble mold after talking to some marble artists about the tools they use. I made a prototype and had a friend of mine ( RAZ ) test it. He said it worked good and I should try it. So I sat down behind his torch and melted some clear and couple dabs of color and twisted and folded it and used my marble mold to round it. It came out pretty round for the first time ever. Together we refined the mold a bit and he let me play at his place till I got my own torch and stuff. But from the first moment of working with glass, I was hooked.
Below is a link to the mold I designed.....if you wanna see it. Some of you have one, I'm sure.
http://www.glassartists.org/Images/F...IMG_0482-a.JPG