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    Stoked on this little dish what started out as a disc flip turned into a hollow shelled turtle sculpture which turned into a little dish, gonna make a matching turtle dabber today. Thanks to Axiswolf here on tmp for the jacks they fit my needs and i couldn't have done the dish without them.
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    Just now at a month of lampworking stoked on my progress

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    Looking good dude

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    making loops before attaching them now overall cleaner work being able to keep a nice even spin throughout.
    first pendant style and coloring ive made that i actually like gonna make plenty like this with different dot styles especially get the honey comb down since they're so hip atm

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    Just got a GTT scorpion 4 stud with 2 oxy cons from someone i had stumbled upon a few hours north of me in MI great deal couldnt be happier. what would you suggest i do? im running two torches on our bench now an alpha and the scorpion as of now im running scorp off both oxy cons 1 10lpm 1 8lpm and would run alpha off tanked. would homefill be the way to go and run both tanked?

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    First things off the scorpion hand rounded mib no mold that size, first "prep" work gonna make a few different balls similar color scheme and encalmo them together today

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    Was able to encalmo my 3 balls together and make an awesome thick spoon nice centerd hole in the bowl. best piece ive made first piece on the new torch im stoked cant wait to torch so more today! Im all outta tubing that i like making spoons with i have some heavy wall 2 in tubing and then some 1in thin walld stuff so im gonna be coil potting these next few pieces until i order some more clear tubing. after making this piece im sure i could knock out some iso pieces have fume and some nice color lined tubing i havnt even touched yet just so much i want to do with the new torch haha thanks yall

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    Nice work

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    Shops in the area carrying my work now hopefully this addiction will start paying for itself real soon $$$ regardless glass with be melted just maybe at a little slower pace

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    First tube implosions didnt undersant the concept of melting the disc down to get these effects or i would have been doing these rather than the compression
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    Sweet pendants. Great progress man. I really like that spoon was that a pre pulled tube?

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    Yes pre pulled golden gate tubing cant wait till im doing my own vac stacks
    First retticello getting better at switchbacks reversals peak at a money tubing spoon
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    Ive got a handheld smith torch helping alot on my pendant work making sure everything is nice and cleanly melted in still getting use to it. Adding the horn/spikes on this pendant my hand accidentally jumped up and hit the pendant cracking it was able to save it somehow. i can tell im gonna be making alot more retti and implosion pendants rather than compression from here on out

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    First sherlock came about trying to use a messed up pipe that had some nice designs on it, 2 honeycombs at each end
    i liked the colorway and tried knocking out a few only first one survived 2nd one cracked while finished up mouth piece holding in grabbers way to long the white is some import and i can tell it tends to crack a little easier. gonna stick to clear getting a few different styles shapping down try to stack some wig wag/ switchback reversals prep blanks so i can get a few things going at once while i work so when im letting things settle in the kiln im working on something else, ill see if its too much seems ideal to get in a flow and crank some things out. any tips on disconnecting blow tube and getting some clean mouthpieces having trouble with that

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    Heat up the connection where your blow tube meets your mouthpiece with a tight, narrow flame. Once it's almost white hot, take it out of the flame and pull them apart quickly. Your goal is to pull that small heated section very thin so it will be easy to pop a hole with your flame. If you can't get the flame to pop open a hole, wait for the thin glass to cool and snip it open with some shears (just make sure to run water through your piece before using/selling). Hope that helps. great work so far!
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    thanks

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    WOW you are 200 times better than I am, whoa, you are kicking ass.

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    Nice work!
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    Very good looking progress! Keep rocking it.

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    thanks all, wait till you see these next ones. fortunate to live in an area where theres some young glass blowers on the come up ive been able to link with and pick up somethings a little quicker. my mans and i have a mini tube in the works hes starting to stop out every weekend when he picks up his oxy win win for both of us to feed off each other. hes got a year under his belt and hes making minitubes now nothing crazy but he likes my color prep and wig wags so we are able to throw down somewhat together. im a fast learner and him stopping by fequently is gonna help me greatly

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