check out Loren's $5,000. a slice "glass loaf"

[harpentuan]

"Glass loaf" ha-ha, never heard that term.

http://www.ripleys.com/blog/glass-loaf/

[oG Glocc Coma]

He just recreated this image with extra left over components and an end cane! Extensive photos of every stage were taken and shared on his Facebook, you should check it out!

Last I seen he was fusing on the Goldstone Frame next!

[Yeef]

just a masterpiece.

[Chad S]

Yup, beyond baller status to say the least.

[harpentuan]

So , how does he produce a slice of this? A wet band saw I guess? I would be scared to death to make those cuts. I know he's not using carbide snippers, lol!

[mattholimeau]

I've seen pics of the loaf like a dozen times or more now - it keeps popping up on facebook. Amazing murrine. What I'm curious about - are there any pics of any applications of this murinne out there? I'm sure it would be one hell of a heady something to have a slice of this on it. I'd love to see that.

[oG Glocc Coma]

This is made from Soft glass, not Boro

[harpentuan]

No offense Bro, but that's kinda obvious. Again, no bad intentions in this post. It's all cool.

[Aymie]

This picture went so viral, I bet he could sell them for double that.

[VinE]

Great idea matt m. . Put it on a heady. Lmao.

[mattholimeau]

Hah, yeah, it's true, I didn't realize it was soft glass. (I was tryin to say "heady something" to just mean some abstract elaborate and expensive something - but I guess I can't get away with avoiding a functional connotation with that word around these parts.)

But I still wanna see it used on something, or somehow... I guess some people collect murrine just to have cool glass chips around? I guess what I'm saying is I only understand murrine as an ingredient, as prepwork - a way to put an image on glass, and then to use that image to make something - bead, pendant... umm, softglass heady mini bubbler! (right? right. hah. Just use a bridge right? Hah.)

So, what would someone do with this? Just put in on a pedestal in a display case, here's my $5,000 chip of glass? (If so, that's cool, maybe I just haven't caught that bug yet.) Will there ever be something made that uses this image (other than to be incorporated in another murrine)? Do I just not at all understand murrine and murrine collecting?

[Aymie]

It took me a while to catch the bug and I once felt a similar way. Now, it's just like a tiny glass painting. Size is irrelevant and even a tiny polished chip is a work of art all on it's own. For me, it was a Dave Strobel sugar skull girl that hooked me.

[Dan Kooper]

I have around 150 milli slices in my collection. Been collecting them since around 2005. I got some oldies.

[glassmax]

Hi ,
Are you sure that all his work is done with soft glass?
I just googled some links about Loren Stump and boro : https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=...silicate+glass
For sure a slice of those murrine is a piece of art at its own,like a picture or a marble or a sculpture.
But despite of that I think that murrine are originally mainly made for further use as applications for various glass work.
I think about marbels,paperweights but even hollow glass work.
years abo I did some collab work with friend who has his own furnace.He pulled soft glass rods of whom i made small objects ( by way not as good as Loren Stumps).These we encased at the oven and made some pretty nice paperweights but also some hollow blown work.
Unfortunately I have no digital pics as that time we had no digi cams and they´re all sold.
I´ll try to find out something more about Stumps work according.
Thanks for the nice thread.
glassmax

[glassmax]

Here I found some Paperweights and jewellery made of Loren Stumps amazing murrine.
https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=...silicate+glass
Wow

[Simian]

Hi ,
Are you sure that all his work is done with soft glass?
I just googled some links about Loren Stump and boro : https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=...silicate+glass
For sure a slice of those murrine is a piece of art at its own,like a picture or a marble or a sculpture.
But despite of that I think that murrine are originally mainly made for further use as applications for various glass work.
I think about marbels,paperweights but even hollow glass work.
years abo I did some collab work with friend who has his own furnace.He pulled soft glass rods of whom i made small objects ( by way not as good as Loren Stumps).These we encased at the oven and made some pretty nice paperweights but also some hollow blown work.
Unfortunately I have no digital pics as that time we had no digi cams and they´re all sold.
I´ll try to find out something more about Stumps work according.
Thanks for the nice thread.
glassmax

Loren works both boro and soft glass. The madonna piece is soft glass.

[FifDeez]

No offense but it looks 4,999$ overpriced to me. But to each their own ... I guess

[Icarus]

5 grand may be a little steep, but $1? That's cold, man. A lot of skill, work and time went into that.

[LooseSeal Baller]

No offense but it looks 4,999$ overpriced to me. But to each their own ... I guess

i'll give u a dollar, to go away...

[Icarus]

i'll give u a dollar, to go away...

Hey now.