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Hey folks just a couple things I've been workin on. Some spoons and a couple slides. The slides are a thin layer of fools gold with cobalt over and encased in clear.

i really like the handle on that last slide! nicely done.

Looks tight Boiseno!...Nice!...

Yea dude, the slide with the fume trap is TIGHT! really dig the handle on there. Where did you get fools gold at?, ive been wanting to try that color for a while and havn't seen it anywhere. Do you have any pieces that are straight fools gold without anything covering them? the spoons are exactly what ive been doing the past few days, hehehe, fumers and w/r looking exactly like that, kinda had to do a double take. how much do you get out of those spoons in your area if you don't mind me asking? I'm trying to get comparisons to see if my prices are right...

Some sweet work man

Thanks for the kind words guys.

Frill I got one stick of that fools gold in with some steel wool I got years ago and used about 1/3 of the stick in that time and used the rest of it for this pull. So I don't know where to get any but I would say it's deffinitly a color to mix down with clear in just about any application. That goes for the fools gold and wool they bubble up and leave a very pitted surface otherwise, unless you remix it. You can get about twice the milage out of it mixed with clear.

I pulled stringers of it and coated my 25mm tube then cased that in cobalt so it's a fairly subtle effect in this prep but looks great in person.

Lastnights work. Finally used the last bits of color tube my buddy made for me as a wedding gift. Also the same prep as above, fools gold under cobalt.

Thanks for lookin

Looks very nice..

Another lock. I love these, I'm really enjoying making this style and size. "pocket locks" this is ap with the same prep from before.

Thanks for lookin

Tight, I like that one even better!..looks great!...

Thanks headdi I've really been concentrating on making clean straight encalmos. These last two pieces have been some of my favorites so far. Very comfortable in the hand as well.

nice encalmo sherly!

Thanks kato, and don't call me sherly :D

form on your locks is getting really much better. good work.

Damn, how do you forget the carb? Tired lastnight I guess. I'm gonna make a glass sophieta tonight and get this fixed up.

^^^ oh man I hate when that happens, donr it a few times myself :o:

all part of it tho, lookin great btw, lovin the locks!

I did the same thing a few months back on a similar size bub. I just threw it in the kiln with the mouthpiece hanging out and popped the carb when it got up to temp and then threw the whole thing back in the kiln.

really liking that bub and those locks are clean man.

the shaping aon that one you forgot the carb on is nice

and love the opal encasement up there. how are you getting the colored tubng?

^^making it!!

Finished bub with carb and my quick bent-neck sophieta tool