Farewell HotHead progression

**sk,,,** · 01-29-2017, 01:06 PM

10 months on the HotHead....
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**jusbag** · 01-29-2017, 01:59 PM

Fun, did you try coil pot hollow beads?

**sk,,,** · 01-29-2017, 02:39 PM

I didn't try any coil pot beads. I just got a Cheetah. My wife and niece have some interest in making beads, so I'm gonna give it a whirl.

**sk,,,** · 01-29-2017, 02:56 PM

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Totally forgot to put the silver fume in a reducing fire for a bit. My biggest delight in moving up to a bigger flame was getting a good fire polish on the surface of the marbles. I learned a lot on that HotHead but dang, the dissapointment was real. I worked all boro for my very first tank of oxygen except the last few minutes. This was my first time melting boro, I was so impressed I didn't even want to mess with soft glass. But the last few minutes of the tank I made a soft glass marble. I had a hard time controlling the glass if was so soft

I'm confident in shaping the marbles. Gonna focus on techniques now. I plan to perfect mushroom marbles before I revisit compressions or vortexs.

**sk,,,** · 02-05-2017, 05:13 PM

I've made about ten mushroom marbles so far. Almost got the knack of it. Some of the caps look really well formed but the color is too thin. I have some Eclipse on the way. I think having some better opague colors it gonna make a huge difference.

**sk,,,** · 02-08-2017, 03:23 PM

I nailed the cap on this one. Maybe a little too much cap. Gotta work on my photography, because this Triple Passion looks way better in hand.

**sk,,,** · 02-09-2017, 08:53 AM

If I can consistently keep getting forms like this I'll feel like I have this mushroom technique down. Gonna try to get a little more clear under the stem and see how that looks.
Now to start puzzling out flame striking some Triple Passion.

**OceanMelt** · 02-09-2017, 09:15 AM

Looking good dude, shaping looks on point. Some silver strikers should makes things pop!

cheers-

**sk,,,** · 03-01-2017, 05:15 AM

Got an ok twist by using a tighter flame to help control where the heat soaks in. This was from Lesson 5, the window swirl, in Torchworked Marbles. I think I over twisted it some though. Really stoked to have worked Sno White with no boiling or scum. So stoked that I tossed a quarter pound of Lava onto my last glass order!

**Cerberus** · 03-01-2017, 07:06 AM

That one looks really good! Make a couple more window swirl style

**sk,,,** · 03-03-2017, 09:17 AM

That Revere one-hitter video makes it look way too easy! I think an L marver might help some. But mostly I believe I was using too big a flame and/or soaking in too much heat. Dichroic was not too bad to work with. I had no idea it would scum where it was exposed on to the surface, I was thinking it would just burn off clean.

**LRG** · 03-03-2017, 09:45 AM

L marver helps,tiny flame....I never made this type of one hitter like that so I made 300 the last week.I fume the clear blank and add some dots 2.50$ a pop .I liked doing them,if there clean they all look good.I snag the blanks out to fume them with a metal rod after got a ton stacked in kiln.Looking good!!Keep heat/flame off the dirco side.One side is glass and other is metal,if flame heats the metal side it burns out the bling.

**sk,,,** · 03-14-2017, 05:59 PM

These are the first few spoons I've made. There are two blobs not shown.

Vortex marble turned out more like a dome but the dichro was ok. Now that I feel I have the mushroom mastered, I'm going to
work on mastering galaxy marbles. Backing it in black gives me some trouble, though.

**hashmasta-kut** · 03-14-2017, 06:41 PM

those spoons are horrible. You have a lot of balls posting them, props!

Master the vortex!

**sk,,,** · 03-15-2017, 04:28 AM

Oh yeah! I might glue a magnet on there and stick it on the fridge door.

**sk,,,** · 03-15-2017, 01:55 PM

Spoon #7
I think I am getting all those air bubbles in the dichro by pushing the dichro too deep when encasing the coating side. Then when I go around with clear to seal it, I am melting clear into a V shaped channel rather than riding along a 90 degree angle.