Land's Glass

Hello,
I though it was time for me to start one of these progression threads. I have been blowing glass on and off for a couple years, but i have been at the torch almost everyday for the last couple months. I have been mostly making fumed spoons lately. I only have pictures of my recent work but, i will get some of my older stuff, and will post some marbles and pendants up. I have been able to sell some spoons to one store, but i still have not tried any other yet. Anyways i will keep this short and get some more pictures up.
Thanks for looking, and all comments are appreciated.

Here is some more pics. Sorry for the poor quality.

Nice implosions, and I like that Sherly.

Thanks,
I make a lot of implosions. I guess i am kind of hooked on them. They were one of the first things i taught myself and, now i am seeing lots of possibilities with them. Also that was my second sherly ever made, but the bend is a little kinked and off set though.

Here is a few pendants and one pipe. I tried a honeycomb on the pipe, but I the picture does not justify it. Their is much more of a 3d look to it in person.

Here is one more honeycomb pipe

Made a couple more pipes. Thing are feeling a little more comfortable, but i still have a long way to go.

I tired my hand at some wig wags. The fumed ones were my second and third, the first one i made cracked after i spent to long working the mouth piece. Overall i am pretty happy with the way the ones with color came out.

I have not been doing much glassblowing lately, but now having my new torch i am going to set it up. I also set up a foot pedal, its a little messy, but works great. Now i just have to get used to working on a surface mix.

He'll yeah man i have the same setup with a griffin foot pedal i love my bravo! Torch on !:chilling:

Here are my first pipes i made on the bravo. I know i had problems with overheating. I've got to remember to work further out in the flame. I also made a couple of implosion pendants trying to get a feel for this torch, but I feel like i have just taken ten steps backwards, everything feels so different.

Sometimes switching from pre-mix to surface mix will throw you loopy man.

I got me a Red Max w/ the Mega Minor a while back and I discovered that I had troubles fuming and I could not polish my bowls for the life of me so I went back to my Natty for a lot of stuff.

One of these days I will have to go back and finish that learning curve.....

Yeah i am still getting used to having this much heat but, i am slowly getting more comfortable with it.

Things are stating to feel much better. I have been making lot of implosions lately. I like the way they are coming out, and everyone i have shown them to likes them. Even the local bakery has offered to sell them at there store, as long as i come up with a display. I also got a NS and GA color sample packs, so i have lot of new color to try out. Now i just have to get my oxygen tank refilled, and get working.

Definite progress in the spoons. Watch the depth of the bowl vs the size of the head. You want a good amount of space between the bottom of the bowl and the bottom of the head so it doesn't clog up easily. My general rule is equal distance for depth of bowl and space underneath.

Thanks for the tip Aymie,
I have been having some trouble overheating the bowl area before I push, but i will remember what you said. I'm thinking i am going to get a bigger bowl push though, maybe like a 3/4in one instead of the 5/8in. So many people i sell bowls to always tell me to put bigger bowls on them. Here's some of my first attempts at some stuff and puffs. I think the red one would meet your 50/50 rule, but the other one does not even come close.

I had lots of problems with heating the bowl area too much before a push. Just a small ring around the hole is all you need.

Thanks Aymie,
I will have to keep at it.
So i took those pendants i took pictures earlier, and brought them to the local antiques store that i have been to many times before, and left them their on consignment. The lady their liked them all, and said she would try and get $10-20 for each one, and then i get 60% of that. I thought that was pretty good deal. These are my first pendant to be in a store, so i am hoping they do well, so i can keep making them.

Getting better with the shaping ... Those blow ins look like fun I think i am going to try them out

Here is some more pendants i made the other day. I made a couple more today, but just ran out of propane, and i don't have a car to go get a refill.:bangHead:

Here is what I did this week. I made 73 pendants, its about 32hours of works. Hopefully i can keep this up, and start doing this every week.

Nicely done dude

Wow sick work dude. Love the effort and the number of pendants you churned out.

Thanks for the encouragement guys,
Doing production type work definitely takes some fun of glassblowing away, but i am trying to press through it. I am still looking for the best way to sell these. I have been mostly selling them without a necklace, but i think they will do better with a necklace. I tired braiding up some hemp, but not sure its worth my time yet.

Here's the worst part of working more, It just gives me more chances to hurt myself.

the pic is good, and your pendants are stacking up nicely, but lets hear the gory details, it makes it all so much better :D

how the hell did you burn yourself? ouch! hope you have a quick recovery!

looks like a pendant size burn...**chuckles**

nice array of pendants.

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Originally Posted by istandalone24/7

how the hell did you burn yourself? ouch! hope you have a quick recovery!

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I just finished making a sherlock, and i have been playing with making them stand, so i set it down in front of my torch to get it to balance. Then i just went to grab it with a pair of tweezers, and stuck my hand right in, and to make it worse the outer flame was on. It was a full retard moment, but I did get some aloe on it right away. Definitely is the worst burn i have had in a long time.

Here is what i did this week. I was only able to do 25 or so hours, so its not that much. I mostly made sherlocks, but i also made a couple spoons and 10 more pendants. I had a good amount of trouble with the sherlocks and pipes. Out of the 28 sherlocks i tried to make only 16 of them were sell able, so their were 8 complete failures, and 4 that cracked but i think i can fix them. I have also started an etsy account. I have only put up a couple pendants, but i will get more of them up today. If you want to check it out i will put a link to it https://www.etsy.com/shop/LandsGlass
As always thanks for the comments

Holy shit, I just made my first etsy sale. I was not expecting that to happen so fast. I only posted up a couple pendants a few days ago. I really need to get more thing up on etsy.

nice work! i think the red blow in pipe has the best shape out of all them, you really nailed that one. i like how consistent your loops on the pendants are i need to go work on that. im about to empty my T today and i got no ride either feel your pain.

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Originally Posted by dplaza

nice work! i think the red blow in pipe has the best shape out of all them, you really nailed that one. i like how consistent your loops on the pendants are i need to go work on that. im about to empty my T today and i got no ride either feel your pain.

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Hey man,
thanks alot, I hate running out of gas, so i now have two 300s, and two 5gal propane tanks. Now i only have to get refills every week or so.

nice i only have one T tank for now because the deposit was like 300 bucks, so when i go on monday to exchange im gonna try and setup an account so i can get another and get my deposit back.

I hope you arn't burning through those two 5gal propane tanks fast, I run (THREE) 281cubic ft oxy tanks. I can burn through 6 of them for every propane tank. The propane lasts a long time!

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Originally Posted by truedef

I hope you arn't burning through those two 5gal propane tanks fast, I run (THREE) 281cubic ft oxy tanks. I can burn through 6 of them for every propane tank. The propane lasts a long time!

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Lol,
I was just saying when i run out of propane i have a back up ready. I get like 3+ oxygen tanks per 1 propane tank or so, but i have 300 oxygen tanks.

Here is my last couple days of work. I was really struggling earlier this week, I just could not blow out an even bubble or keep things on center, so i just stopped working, and walked away before i broke something. Then the next day things just seemed to work. I was pulling perfect points, and was having a much easier time making glass do what i want it to do. I still need to work on my shaping and bowl pushes, but things are getting a bit more comfortable

Just a quick tip on the carbs, IME putting the carb closer towards the stem part of the piece instead of towards the back, makes for allot more comfortable hold, also you might want to put them down a littler more from the bowl, so your custys arent burning there thumbs! Other than that, your progressions looking good! keep it up!

Yeah i see what your saying. I did not even think about people burning their fingers. I will try to go a little further back and a bit down next time i make pipes.
Thanks for the advice

Well I tired to get some work done yesterday. I made 16 chillums, which is a pretty good day for me. Except i know i could have made more, but once the sun went down i was literally swarmed by mosquitoes. I really need to put up a screen door, or put some side vents in, so i can work more during the night. I also tried to melt some glass today, but it is just to hot outside, and i could not focus on what i was doing. I made one chillum and it took an hour,and the usually only take me 20 or so. :bangHead: