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[GhostWorks]

Gonna copy chubbles fume shots thread here.

I'd really enjoy seeing everyone's iso work. I'm obsessed with this style and I would also appreciate the inspiration.

I'll kick it off with tonight's freshie. This is for a guy out east. thanks everyone!

[kudabeck]

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[GhostWorks]

I dig it! Very sleek.

[glassdocnc]

Ooooh pictures. Like! (repped ya both)

[DEmptyGlass]

Dude.....my most favorite chillum ever was exactly like that. My desire to have one back in my glass collection was one of my main motivators for starting glass work. The colors were a bit different but everything else is spot on. I'm sure thousands have been made by thousands of artists but....any chance you were slinging glass in Dallas about....9 years ago? Haha.

[GhostWorks]

Thanks glassdocnc! I bet kudabeck would sell ya one

[BORO]

When the color runs low, ISO stretches it the farthest ...







(save the "good ones " for later)

[SwanieMix]

Wowowowowo. Is that wigwaged iso work? Idk why that never occurred to me. Did you use a thin straight cane to lay all those thin lines or do it one by one? I'm not the best at iso work yet.

[GhostWorks]

Daaaaaammnnnn boro! Those are BALLER. Wish I could take a lesson from you lol.

[blueburnsorange]

Wow - ISO wigwags.... is that done with cut-n-flip?

[BORO]

Draw lines in a open flare...... Close , twist , condense.

the big difference between regular line work , and ISO line work ( back in the day , there was only ISO line work ) is how you shape the piece before you twist it up.

With vac/regular lines... You pull the ball into a tube. Similar in shape to a sharpie. Twist it all up, including the terminations... Then you melt it back into a ball to use.


With ISO... You open a blank , lay stringer lines , close up the blank, ( if it's a 2piece , rip it in half , one for each section, so it matches )

Now you have a closed up ball, w lines more or less. This is where the difference is.... Don't pull it into a "sharpie" shape..... Instead , you have to twist up the ball , one Half at a time. Take the ball , on a hollow handle, heat the 1/2 furthest from the handle. Pull a little bit, till you have the one half/handle , still ball shaped... The other hot half is now a cone coming off the ball ...looks like a ice cream cone , with a handle from the top of the ice cream..

( ------C> )< shaped like this, sorry no pics.

... Twist up the cone half into your wags. I start in the center of the ball (where cone and ice cream would meet ) termination ends at the tip of the cone... Don't stretch during waging it , as much as possible.... The cone shape should stay stiffer ,thicker , and it's closer to the "ball shape" you have to condense it back into.. When your done with the first half , switch handle sides and do the other half the same way ( or use a punty and a hole/Sofieta , like vac line work) . Lots of times , I just spin a twist on the second half, it's faster , and the one side is hidden in a lot of my work.

the better you get , the longer the cone can be.

ISO line work is 90% more finicky /cracke than vac line work. If it cracks, it's a good chance the crack line scars the fume..... So reheat often , don't jump around with the flame , all the normal ISO stuff.

[SwanieMix]

Do you leave it as a cone shape when you switch to the other side of the ball? Or condense it back into a ball then switch to the other side and pull it out? Won't waging it as a cone lead to different sized wags due to the difference in the size as you go up the cone?

[BORO]

I want a ball shape before I switch sides/handles .... (you could do it however is fastest for you )

^ Your second question.... Your the operator... you tell me. twist it more? twist it less? its never ever been a issue for me...(ymmv)

If you got a perfect termination, you may want to use a solid punty for the second pull/wag/condense.. blow a hole where the blow tube for the reversed axis will eventually be. Use the sofieta style blow tube/straw chunk placed to the hole. (for inflation of the second half of the waged ball, thats on a punty rod)..... same way you do a vac stack section....

[SwanieMix]

Okay thanks I'll give it a try.

[GhostWorks]

Wow thanks for the tek boro!

[DEmptyGlass]

Just started with ISO and I'm hooked.

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[GhostWorks]

Kickass! I like that spoon. Thanks for sharing!

[Captain Glass]

This is my ISO prodo I pretty much live and pay my bills with these things

[Nomad]

How much do you ask for something like that?

[GhostWorks]

Those are really nice! I'm curious as well, thanks for sharing!