What item got you into glass

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.