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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
Glad to see you on the torch again. I dont know if u remember me but i came up to your house for a class when i was living in ashland back in the summer of 08 and it waz a honor to have met u and watch u work. I have always been. Hugh fan of ur work. Sorry to hear about the pain but ur work will always be respected by me and im sure many others. I hope to see u back on the torch full time again someday
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Looking good! It's really nice to see you posting some work. i'm right behind you, just never as brave hehe.
~Misha
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nice foot...
i always have trouble getting an even foot...
any tips you want to share...?
-the dude
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
Originally Posted by
innervision
nice foot...
i always have trouble getting an even foot...
any tips you want to share...?
-the dude
First rule of thumb is, outer rim should always be hottest part of your heat base.
I like to start by first getting the hole at the end of the tube the diameter of the tube, in other words all the way open. The hole should be square to the length of the blank, the rim of the hole should be even and consistent with the tube wall. I like to spin it against my L-marver while going at it from the inside with my reamer.
Now you want to build your heat base, basically think of it as a gradient, the rim always being the hottest otherwise instead of an even flare the middle of the tube section will belly out. The hotter you go the easier it is get it flat like Matt's.
That being said, you dont want that rim to go soft prematurely unless you want a fat lip.
When I do them, as soon as I see the rim start to move, I start spinning faster while keeping in the flame just a little longer to keep that heat base. I prefer to spin the foot out without using a reamer to avoid chill marks, its almost impossible to get rid of them without deforming the foot once they're there.
Oh, and I usually go with 31.7x4 for feet, do some practice on that or some 25x4 something in that range till you got it. about 1-1/2 to 2 inches is all you really need in most cases.
Hope this makes some sense and helps, its hard to put into words without visual help.
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
Good one Matt, thanks again for the tips I picked up from your posts along the way. Glad to see you back on the bench.
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.
Really.
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
Nice cup. A great example for newbs of what you can do on a smaller torch. Hope the pain lets up more often so you can spend more time out in your shop.
Peace bro.
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thanks for the tips.
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I'm going to light up the torch and give it a try...
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
Oh wow, nice work! For a bobcat?
I've been hoping you'd post more work. I remember it from back in The Day lol keep it up!
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the pics are a bit big, can you resize?
~Misha
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
yeah wierd stupid drop box made them all wierd .I'll try to resize they load really fast when I upload them to forum. But I can't host them anywhere else. So I cant link them in the right place or don't know how to if I upload to forum.
~FlowerMatt
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use our flickr...i'll pm you the info. i have to go login to it so i remember it lol.
~Misha
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
Ok so the stupid adobe wasn't saving my resize they are fixed now.
~FlowerMatt
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I like drop box its linked to my phone heh and my gmail and free
~FlowerMatt
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
cool, those are so much easier to see now.
~Misha
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
HumanLathe,
Dude thank you !!
The pictures help a lot..
I'm gonna get my torch fired up right now.
Thanks
The Dude
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
No problem man . This video is probably one of the first videos on the web of the GTT monster now labeled Viper torch, The Python while Fun to look at was quite hard to work on due to its very long barrel. Which is why I'm sure they now have made it much shorter and easier to work on [Viper] The video shows mike plane in the final flaring process using similar techs to open a very large foot on the Python.
http://www.talkglass.com/forum/videos/footflare.mpg
Last edited by PyroChixRock; 07-29-2012 at 02:22 PM.
Reason: you linked the video as an image, fixed it for ya.
~FlowerMatt
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
welcome back sir! blessings on your bench
"Scientists proposed that male lion's skill at ambushing prey in dense vegetation was previously unknown because of scientists' fear of being ambushed by male lions in dense vegetation."
Harpers, findings, may 2013
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Re: Been a while..Hi everyone :)
Maaaaatt. Good to see you, man.
I can't imagine not blowing glass. That's gotta feel good melting stuff again.
What happened to mike plane? After seeing him flare a huge piece in 2000? I knew where I wanted to go with my glass career. Now I do similar stuff daily.
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