A murrini a week

New Boro cane pull
Green Skull for St. Patty's Day
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damn, very nice!
u selling those?

I have a few slices left on etsy or you can pm me

wish i had the money....i was more curious then anything.
i'd love to use murrini like that, i'm just guessing i'd butcher the job.

I know litterally nothing about murrini or cane. Is slicing something that Soft Glass people do more of? I've never seen boro applied as a slice. but i am a part time hack rookie.
Peace

many pipers put murrini/milli slices on their pipes. the process is the same as for soft glass.

although, i made a cane of boro murrini...the typical soft glass starburst pattern. maybe i didn't choose my colors properly, because i can't really get it to spread out enough to get the same effect as the bead ladys do.

Hers is a minni tut on how I lay down murrini in soft glass. I have seen people using a stick and snap method of applying milli cane in boro but have never tried it, I get better optical quality if I lay down polished slices and encase them after. If I cut or snap my canes I ruin A good many and get jagged edges.

I dont have any idea as to how milli are used in pipes. I have used them in pendants cabochons and marbles.

Here is a soft glass tut probly work in Boro
http://www.boehmestudioproductions.c...ries-tutorial/

Wow just pulled in a wopper. 4"
Tried a new trick of making marbles on the end of my punties. It cut down on hand fatigue. Its probably and old trick.

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Steve

Just finished assembling the Zombie cane. Biggest pull yet in Soft glass. about killed my hand.

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I think there are 16 or 17 different pulls in the final coin

Very cool Steve.


I'm diggin keeping up with your thread.

Its great that you are a teacher too!

I am absolutely loving this thread! Love it even more that you are using an 8m, that's what I started on. If you can cough up the dough for a GTT Lynx I highly recommend it, it might look cute and quaint, but its an enormous upgrade from the hottest you can get the 8m. I ran a 8m with an SM21 tip and a rider with various small tips, when I got my Phantom, my melt time plummeted as well as my gas bill, it really put things in perspective regarding how weak a flame the SM21 really is, not to mention a gas hog. Either way, keep on making the murrini man, they're kickin ass!

Thank you For your advice about the torches ALIEN. I'm running a the sm11 tip now and can only heat a 1" gather of boro seriously depressing. I would eventually like to melt 4" boro gathers about the size I just pulled in soft glass.
Thanks again,
Steve

This thread is so cool. I'd love to see a video of you pulling those.

smallish cane pull. I did a color test for a larger cane. Here is a short video of a two hour pull
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love that time-lapse..


Good stuff! http://tokecity.com/forums/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

That was an AWESOME video! You are talented. I'm going to follow this thread ensuthiasm.

Awesome awesome work Steve! When we gettin together? I got a shop full of mirages and lynx for us to play with! :D

So how does this marble thing work? Is this for spinning, marble against palm? Can you explain a little more how this reduced hand fatigue, and what step? Thanks, and good job.

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Okay, it just looked too short to be one, otherwise I would have recognized it. Yup, I've though of all kinds of removable ones. Escecially systems you can add to, and att different spots. But by the time you put em on, etc, you really didn't need em and it would have taken forever to custom tune each one. To add to the marble one, a circular weight with spandex on end can help. I made one before, and it's interesting to spin with it, try to focus on your piece, and keep from falling off the end. Not worth it though. All you really need to do is move your wrist around other angles, change rotation directions and stuff more frequently to involve all the other muscles in your hands. When you spin slow and even in one direction it hits the same muscles, same spot, and is more like a hand workout. Moving around, moving wrist keeps moving around muscle strain points and my hands never get tired ever. I used to do all kinds of wacky forearm and grip workouts though. like 1 handed pullups, etc