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Hello all I am Rob very new to forums and glass blowing both
Have found some really cool tutorials i'd like to share
http://www.youtube.com/user/RedShamrockVideo
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-S...11105695583974
These are the folks that really sparked my interest in this awesome community of people
Hi Melting Pot
I just made my first posts in another thread, even though I've been reading the forum for about a year. I figured it was time to peek my head out from behind the curtain.
I've been lampworking for just about ten years, and used to read the ISGB forum all the time way back when, but never posted much. These days I work so many hours in my studio at home, and don't get out with people much, so it's nice that there's a glass community online that makes me laugh. Some of my favorite threads so far are Nile! and Glass Isn't a Liquid. That stuff was brilliant.
I originally got into glass because I wanted to do sculpture and pipes, and used to follow Snodgrass around the Dead lot like a puppy. I studied sculpture in school, and did some bronze casting and stone carving. After I started on the torch, I ended up doing boro beads, pendants, marbles, and murrini. In fact I may have met some of you when I was doing the Best Bead show in Tucson and other beads shows in the Northeast between 2004 and 2010.
I'm pretty much exclusively focused on hollow work now, mostly still spoons and bubblers, but I am incredibly inspired and challenged by it, and nowadays I pretty much live just to work. After all these years, I finally got a bigger torch. (But it could be bigger:twitch:.)
My goal is to eventually get to a point where I can really express my ideas, and make sculpture in glass. Presently I'm still struggling to get a grip on the technical stuff.
One of these days - hopefully soon - I'll post some pictures.
My website is www.liquidsandstudio.com
Thanks everyone for all the good reading, amusement, and research material.
Welcome! You've got some great looking work there.
Beautiful work, LiquidSand, welcome to talkglass.com!!
greetings and salutations! its hard to get more newbie than me. i just started learning about working with glass. i get 4 hrs torch time a day 4-5 days a week. yesterday was the start of the 3rd week. the guys teaching me do mostly production pieces for wholesale. last few days have been learning to fume silver and bake it in then add clear line, dots, ect. if it survives the kiln tonight i may have actually made a functional piece thats more than just clear.
i've always loved glass but never really got into it till i moved to Portland and met Chris from Liberty Glass (R.I.P.). now i've moved back to the midwest with hopes of bringing some PNW flavor into what i learn here.
and thats where i'm at..... stay tuned this rides bound to be bumpy!
Welcome! :wave:
Lisa
Stained Glass since 2004, interested in hot glass, have done some fusing, no torch work yet!
Howdy, I'm no glass blower, I'm just fond of you guys.
I started up Slide Project to make a few bucks and to have a good excuse to cozy up to your industry. I've been a woodworker my whole life, but only spent the last couple of months trying to make slide and dome displays. So far I've been having a blast.
Hi guys, I'm Clayton, I'm from Morgantown WV and I recently went to the DFO in Eugene, OR.My brother and I are looking to start blowing glass and I was wondering If you guys could offer some guidance as to which equipment to buy. I have a limited budget but I would like to get a quality torch that I will not outgrow for a while and that is conservative on gas. I would appreciate any guidance you guys give because I was told this is a great place to go for starters in lampwork and glass blowing.
Hey Clayton, welcome to TMP! It was good meeting you guys at the DFO last weekend. Use the search feature and look around a bit, there is a fuck ton of information on this site.
I am responding to your email now, thanks for staying in touch!
Hi all - Amy with Pure Virtue Glass and Virtue Flame Works - can't wait to find all my glass friends and read up on these forums I keep hearing about... For those that don;t know about Virtue Flame Works - we have a 25 station studio, supplies and school here in Rockville, MD and are working out details on some killer classes this fall...
As for myself, I'm entering year two of glass blowing and have never enjoyed learning something as much!! Glad to be a part of the glass community!!
DaveK aka kingmanarts.com looking into lampworking. I have been fusing glass since 2004. Webmaster for Oregon Glass Guild.
Hey all I'm Scotty, been on the torch for 3 years now...live in Boston MA...
This website has been a phenomenal resource for me in my quest to learn the ways of glass
I'm on facebook.com/liquidglassarts and instagram is LiquidGlassArts where pics of my work can be found
Thank you to everyone who posts on here I have learned so much already!
Thanks!
Scotty
Josh Driscoll , aka Freak... airbrush artist turned tattoo artist, and now thanks to the awesome friendly people i found at a beadmaking class and all ya'll i'm a darn glass junky. Been torching roughly 4 or 5 months ( progression page coming soon ) Acworth Ga ( the home of one lonely torcher)
the name is Jason. I worked with stained glass for years and decided to get a torch and some tools. Been on the torch for about 6 mo.
Welcome, guys! Glad to have you with us.
Hello Im Corey " Kumar ". Ive just started working with glass for a few weeks now. Picked up a GTT Lynx, and still need to pick out a kiln for marbles, small sculptures, and pendants.
Im also a reef keeper, so hello to any saltwater aquarium owners!
The name is Mike.
I've been thinking about potential jobs lately, and it came to me late at night that working with glass would allow me to show off my artisic side.
Could you help out me out?
How do you buy glass to work with?
What kind of torch do I need?
Anything that I should know before starting?
Thanks. :D
Welcome Mike,
read this thread first.
The first post is some solid advice for new people.
Hell hello. Names Jeromy, but Ive gone by jiggy my whole life. Out in the woods just east of Portland Oregon. Blew glass for the first time in 2011 at a lesson with Corey franks. I got it as a christmas present. Instantly got bit by the glass bug. About a year later I had a good amount of cash to spend, so I browsed craigslist, found a set up with a red max, jen ken, tanks, regs, a box of kimble a huge box of color shorts and some hand tools all for eleven hundo. Didnt hesitate to grab that amazing deal. Took one more lesson, and began the craft, here I am a year later loving it more than ever. Thanks for all the help you guys have given me along the way! Peace and thanks.