just be careful with the borax, it's flux and will change the coe of the surface of the glass.
on a side note, it's actually quite fun mixing more borax into boro and watching the glass drip like...

After fuming with gold you can "fix" the gold with a little silver. Use a very oxidizing flame so the silver doesn't "develop" and fume on a subtle amount. Try it on some practice pieces first, it's...

what kind of a 5 string are you looking for? fretted, fretless, with resonator or open backed, old timey, mountain, bluegrass? I picked up a Rogue open backed, nothing flash, but works ok, off ebay...

Hi and belated thanks 😁

Way to rock the eyes, Simian, nice work!

For those of you wanting to purchase a back issue with ththeutorial, it's the Summer of 2010 Flow issue with Gianni Toso's staircase on the cover.

The tutorial in the flow is a bit more extensive than the tute I published here on the Melting Pot, but this will give you the basics of that technique at the time of publication (my technique has...

doesn't look like you have a problem to me, mate. that pink slyme triceratops is tops!!!



I'd like to see the two combined ...

been around glass all my life, hard to escape it with a scientific glassblower dad. My first time on the torch was when I was 5 and made some janky caterpillars, but I start counting from 1990 when I...

This is a light conceived by the love of my life, Laurie Young.
Her work is incredibly vivacious, colourful and profuse and it's
a joy to see what she comes up with every time.

here's what she...

And a sculpted version of a Splashhead


http://youtu.be/Oj7A-dJqDdw

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hey, thanks :) ! I've got some other recent stuff of what I've been up to, so I'll just throw it on this thread.

some kustom bicycles, kind of all started with a special order request and went on...

never had a problem with a joint cracking, never pre-anneal them, either, but it really depends on a few factors.
A couple of things to look at:
where's the joint from? I use german made joints and...

Haven't posted anything in yonks (which doesn't mean I haven't been at the
coalface working hard) so here's a little plaything I made yesterday.
With all this prohibition in my state on sale and...

I agree that the chinese white is the shizzle, but it's a different horse to gunmounts, for different applications. I think the comparison is similar to comparing an opaque white with an opaline...

Oh, the white gunmounts were soooooo sweeet ... you never felt the love, huh? Unfortunately it's not nostalgia for nothing, I had a heap of applications for it. TBH, I wish I could just put it down...

Just don't take that cracked pipe to a shop ... Not a good look ...

When you call the shop, ask for the contact number for their buyer and talk to them directly. Most of the people behind the...

Don't feel too bad about it, progress is only made when you do the same thing over and over and over again and then again. Repetitive work gives you a chance to concentrate and perfect every step of...

dry pipes are fine, you can always argue they're for tobacco ... as really they are! Anything with a water filter on it is classified as a bong and that's a nono. I got pushed into the same leaky...

Xox

no worries, Robert, I haven't seen her work in a while, but it looks like it has really come along very nicely over the past couple of years! Good luck to her :)

This is Tegan Hamilton's work
http://www.teganhamilton.com/

I don't think Germany is in Australia, either :D

So, Maxel, that's a blast from the past. I went to RMIT from 2000 to 2001 to do my masters degree but I don't think we met. I would definitely...

Now wait a minute, Max, that's just not right!!! Germany isn't in Indonesia...

thanks! Had a great day, but the party's just started. I'll be heading off to Laos tomorrow morning for a month!!! I'm gonna see if I can scare up a glassblower over there, although I haven't been...

ka-chinnnngggggggg!
That's the hard work right there, good to see what you've been up to! I've seen you go from strength to strength, Jay, and I know what kind of hard yards are behind this work ......