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That would be cool..I have gone into The Hangout, but I kept chickening out on show ppl how bad I am :bummed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jackass Glass
But Noob to worst noob won't bother me so much :)
Rote learning can really help.
Instead of trying to make a complete and usable pipe from scratch, instead practice the parts first. Just pull a bunch of small points and blow them into a ball and make bowls. Then pop carbs, and flatten the bottom. Once you can do that with little effort, practice plucking mouthpieces open on 12x2.2 tubing until you can get them to pop open in 2 or 3 swipes. Next up, just practice pulling straight even stems.
The nice thing about this is you don't have a lot of time invested in each piece, and if you screw something up then you just toss it in your trash bucket and move on to the next one.
once you get the hang of one step, move on to the next... after a couple tubes of practice parts, then start putting what you now KNOW how to do together.
Best of luck, enjoy AGI!
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Originally Posted by Greymatter Glass
Thank You.. Sounds like a plan!
^^ solid advice. exactly what the dude who owns the shop i work out of is getting me to do.
i have zero consistency with blown work of any kind.
I have a lot of work to do and it is very hot outside today.
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Sure isn't wrap and rake. It is a variation of a technique I learned in LA. Simple trick they did.
You can make these really fast but they are expensive because of all the color you use.
Those are cool Nomad, love the chrome tips!
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Heady 6oz color changing cup. Just add coffee.
Dichro "blob" pendants?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomad
No actually they are implosions with 19mm heavy wall. I cut up dichro with my nippers. Then shard work the pendants.
But it is made just like any implosion. Then I make it into a disk. I do disk shaped, tear drop shaped and heart shaped. I do about 4 different colors.
I buy the dichro scrap from abr to make them. It comes in whatever color they have. So the dichro color changes all the time.
I'm making them for happy life gallery. It is owned by Mike Dubois. He is the illustrator for the grateful dead. It is a nice place.
He is making a new section of jewelry and wants them and the earrings.
The earrings are implosions I make with 9.5 mmm heavy wall.
I sell the pendants on a regular basis to a couple galleries for $20 retail. I get half the money. So I get $10 each and $12.50 for earrings with silver hooks and $10 for surgical steal.
cool, i like them, i just wasnt sure if i was missing what they were supposed to be etc.
That's not bad for those pendants. They look similar in fashion to those import Chinese made "Murano Glass" pendants - those wholesale for $0.40-75 each. This is proof that reasonably prices American glass can sell in a market flooded with cheap imports tho. Good job man.
On the pipes, that's not all a single day production I'm guessing?
THe italian ones and the chinese copies are made with gold lief. Similar but not the same. I have seen cheap copies from florida though that are dichro. They sell them at the same shows as me.
I make a limited amount of them. So they all sell. I used to sell them on the street and my parents would sell them to there friends. I was busy for a long time.
No the bubblers I was shipping out. They went out yesterday.
I have more all color spoons today.
maybe 2 week worth of bubblers, pendants and earrings? I just started the spoons this week and some i/o chillums.
Leno Tagliapiatra's nefew makes nice pendants in Italy. They are solid worked soft glass. Very different from mine.
I see his page on Facebook. He is about my age.
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This is yesterday. I'm doing red/Amber spoons today. They take forever because you have to heat them up slow.
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I found a new studio space in a two car detached garage with a 5 bedroom house up for auction.
I got turned down for financing though. Bidding starts at $25,000. Need a lot of work though.
I wanted to build a five person glassblowing studio.
I'm going to work on that.
I would teach people to make some of my glass. Then pay them.
If I could get my dad to help. Maybe?
But we couldn't sell this place. So it is unlikely. It's a buyers market right now.
The other places in new Windsor are like $350k. They have an air gas there too and another company. Plus lots of minority's including Mexicans live in Newburgh close by. I could use the labor help.
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Cups are getting bigger, but not big enough. This one is 8oz.
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A set of socket shot glasses.
Yeah keep them shot glasses. The bar glasses are all mold blown soft glass. My friend makes molds and has a production. It is hard to make shot glasses though that way.
I have seen Venetian shot glasses selling for $50 on 5th ave in nyc.
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Filling my cases. I got one more brief case to go.
Nope and nope. These are boro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomad
Ah, would make a nice tea or coffee cup also.
Screw molds look cool for water glasses too. You like blow into the mold then screw them out. I thought they were really neat.
I like the boro shot glasses because you can slam them down on the bar.
But I quit drinking 8 months ago. Except Passover wine I had during the ceremony. I make goblets for that.
yet another example of Nomad thinking he's all knowing. lmao. this shit is better than tv.
I think nomad is saying... the shot glasses in boro make sense from a sales persepctive... but regular bar glasses are soft glass made quickly with molds... so will be hard to compete??? thats my guess / interp.
Meanwhile ive been enjoying watching on IG. keep up the good work.
It was a compliment by the way.
Maybe an idea or two? That's it. Not telling you how to run your ship.
I really have to work now. I got to make my $120-$150 a day. I got bills to pay.
[QUOTE] Yeah keep them shot glasses. The bar glasses are all mold blown soft glass. My friend makes molds and has a production./QUOTE]
sounded different from over here. like 'not only are you stepping on my friends toes, but i know how to make them better'. i could be wrong.
using large diameter, heavy wall tubing and they'll be pretty quick/profitable. i'm sure he knows this already seems to be doing pretty damn good.
so get off the forum and go melt glass. go get that paycheck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomad
Not stepping on anyone's toes. The wholesale show market in nyc is huge.
My friend Sean Gilvey is doing well. His dad is a famous glassblower and he owns the studio. John Gilvey's partner Michael Benzor owns the mold shop. He invented his own way to cast glass in graphite molds.
They mass produce glass. Pay employees less then $10 hour with college degrees to make stuff.
They have 3 studios actually.
I'm not that close to them really. But my mother has been friends with John since 4th grade. I grew up with his kids.
It is how I got into glass.
dude you're way too busy to be posting right now.....
Made a new design. Maybe I will post it tomorrow morning?
All color nose burner. A nose burner is a 3 inch spoon.
sweet rigs boss. i need to start working on mini tubes one of these days.