So lemme start and say thank you melting pot! if it wasn't for glassblowing right now, i dunno what the hell i would be doing. without this site i would have probably gave up or never started.
little background my name is Brett im 26, i work full time at a distributor of smoking accessories, wrapping and packing pipes into boxes. around the same time i started working there my friend introduced me to flameworking. he showed me around at a shop he was working at, showed me how to make a spoon, etc. but my friend wasn't super motivated and every time i went to the shop they were out of oxygen or glass or whatever. after driving an hour after a full day at work get there and realize i gotta drive back cuz theres no materials i gave up on that. but in the back of my mind i knew i still wanted to learn.
so fast forward a couple years and lots of car problems... back in april i dropped the coin and got my stuff, a Redmax, a 99ls, some tools etc. i was lucky enough that one of the suppliers for my job sold me most of the equipment and dropped it off saved a gang on shipping. and another supplier came by with a bunch of raw glass.. 2 tubes of 38x4 1 tube of 20ish mm, a 15 ish mm cobalt, some 9mm tube and some pink, yellow, and super boily orange.
so i burned through almost all that free glass and heres where i am... still dont have the kiln setup cuz i dont wanna start an electrical fire. soon enough i will be garagin' and annealin' properly.... everything is flame annealed/bench cooled/about to explode into a million pieces lol.
crappy cell pics i know ill get a real camera next time i promise...
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