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i cant do it myslef yet but every glass blower i know uses centrifigal force to open there flare, i know its about even heat and a good consistent steady spin. what ive been doing is just melting the end of the tube and then blwing it out to a thin bubble and then break my bubble and voila... open point. this tech i think is only good for i/os and not for flaring bowls and such.
Hummm damn i didnt get no email and missed all these responses, Thx guys I try some more, but ya using an round reamer, actually its my stickstack tool im usin to ream,, hahahah but today I mad a couple and its all outside work but i used alot of clear rod to encase and it came ot good bout 10 more min of work I kinda like em anyways the lil guy is jsut a left over point made into a mini weeeeeeeeeeeee\
Oh ya and the vaJayjay is healin up nicley was a super clean cut no probs
your work keeps on getting better and better.
Nick
nice job. i like that big one alot.
Ok so Im tryin to get this star logo in these implosions and havin trouble l guess ill just try some dif technecs till i get one that works, so i been messin wif some crap, but my girls moms b day today and she breeds ponys so I tried my first animal today and I was pretty suprised at how it came out I know it sux but it knida looks like one heheheh
any tips on how i could implode this logo into pendants and marbles would be really arpeciated
Few more i did the other day, jsut found out the cigarett store is sellin glass now, right next to albertsons heheh so Ima go down and check out his import stuff and try to get him to buy some shit from me, also still lookin for some input about the post above THX
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may man the horse is sweet, keep at it!
no doubt pretty damn good for your first sculpture
Indeed that sculpture is really nice!
Nick
yeah I think that horse is like a german vergin good-n-tight. And your progerssion is looking good too. keep it blazin.
Thx guys Im workin on it, May go to the gift store today and see if they would be interested in glaass art for the store , i already got 3 dealers for my pipes,, hahah my friends are so stoked and play ball so always saftey meetings after the games, they are un loadin these fuks, and im givin em up for 6 for 100$ weeeeeeeeeeeee Ima jsut keep practicin I love this stuff here is some of the prodo shit what do you guys think, tehre only takin bout 25 - 35 min now
still making progress. i like the magnifyers over the spiral on the head of the middle one. it's good to see you working other things besides pipes too.
I like the light fume one on the right. Should be a fun one.
Finally got some ISO done today Its startin to come together im feelin the flow:chilling:
Glass is lookin hot my man!!
THX Guys, OHHHHH MAN Im stoked they came out sweeet my 1st decent ISo on my 3rd 4th try 1st trys a few weeks ago were shiza and broke heheh :chilling:
your killin it.
i really like the lighter fume toward the mouthpiece of the first one.
What size tubing are you using to make your iso spoons?
Ya I like the lighter fume tooo, Ima have to try and not fume so much it always seemes to look beta with lesss Ill try some lighter coats, and I had a lil bit of 38/4 but that was jsut for one, I used 26/4 for the other doin the blow it out to bubble and pop the end and flare that it gets kinda thin when i was workin in there but it all melted down together fine
hell ya crip. lookin good as always. Im glad to here your lil va jay jay slice is healin . i liked to use 32, or 38 tube for my iso. with the 38 i would just open and lay down lines, no blowin out a bubble then openin, peace
im with ss i use 30 and just lay my lines in there. it seems a lil tight in the beginning but u get used to it and then can do mostly anything sometines i blow it open and then open it but thats when im not in the mood to do a double flare. keep it up man u r progresing sicki.
thx yalll, hey Mex What are you talkin bout double flair fill me in , well i made 2 more yesterday buit one got jacked up and didnt make it..
really clean, great job.
Made 3 more today super thick 3 inch points super condensed Its now easy to flair tube jsut took some practice now its all like butttttter, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:chilling:
good job crip lookin good gettin easier thats swell keep up the good wook
right on bro! those are startin to look mint. soon you should try fusing multiple sections together for larger peices
crip, the IO skills are getting sweet man. onions right i wouldnt mind seeing a bubbler or something
i like the lighter fumed ones with the pink...whats the light blue colour in the last pic?
Dude lookin really good!
Nick
Those are sweet. You should try to fume a little lighter.
Thx guys ya im tryin to do lighter fume, I guess I gotta do it realllly light cuz it seems light when i put it on jsut a hint of brown but when i reduce it it must bunch it all up , so ya ill try super light nextime,, I guess Im jstu used to burnin most of it off on teh outside stufff
when you fume it shouldn't look like you did anything until to put the tube back in the flame, it just magically appears with a little flicker of the flame.
gotcha i try it tomarrrow all this time i thought i had to see a lil coat hahaha I was puttin it on some till the glass looked like a mirror hehehweeeeee:chilling:
yeah what i do is put a light little coat on, hit it with a slight oxy flame till it goes away, then switch it up to a reducing flame and it will bring out a nice even coat.
well still fumin to hard, i was tryin out some unobtaniums yesterday and i thought it was gona come out sweeeet but I could hear it crackin in the kiln I jsut knew it was that, whats the trick to workin these colors in with out having them crack??, shoud i thin them out with clear first and try that and advise would be great THX the momka greeen dragon was awsome came out sick and no crackin
colours with lots of sparkle like to be worked under an oxi flame, they dont like high garage temps or long kiln times. basicly the was i see it is, youre trying to get it nice and hot once, get the shape done, and pop her in the kiln as soon as possible, and try to do it near the end up your work day so they dont sit and precipitate chrome all day.
hey crip ur stuff is looking good keep it up. a double flare is when u open the end and just draw the lines for your stem then close melt down and stretch stem, then blow a hole at the end of stem and attatch blowtube and then open up other end and draw lines there, then close and blow ur bowl. its how i initially learned but it takes a lil while longer. i would say try it its good to know multiple ways of doing things. im with everyone else, now start mking some dry hammers and side cars. u tried basic sherlocks yet? ur kickin ass man keep goin.
onion is right on about the aventurine colors. if you run the kiln for a long time keep it at 975 for a garage and then bring it up to 1050 to anneal at the end of your work session.
THx guys ya it was the second pice probally garaged for 2 hrs at 1040 then it ramoped up to 1150 for 15 min then cool, so I guess thats not a good idea on sparkle colors, could that be whats makin my fumes come out white tooo theh high kiln temps ??
I think ill try a bubbler today well see what happens
yeah i would fully avoid the striking cycle @1150 with sparkles, its kind of a death wish. like mer said, when your working em turn your kiln down to just under 1000, then pop it up to 1040 as if it were your strike cycle, then ramp down.