gold + silver + schott boro artistic sample from Kristian (generations glass)

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

Yesterday was the first day I melted Schott boro artistic. Thanks to Kristian for hooking me up with a sample of the tubing and rod. The only plan I had when I made this was to only use the schott BA sample I had received........
These first photos are taken with the camera flash.... so it does bring out the greens more than reality. Tomorrow in the sun I will take more photos and show the pink side of the piece.

Its been a long time since I posted photos of my work, so let me know what you all think!

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

more....

[Swampy]

That's a neat effect, how did you do it... fume the tube then paint on clear rod or fume the tube then sleeve it? Just curious :-)

[harpentuan]

He used paint. lol
Really though, that's a great effect. it must be great glass.
And we all know that Generatrions Glass is one of the best retailers around.

[chayes]

Swampy--texture tube,fume the tube, sleeve tube.

Cool piece, very interesting shape and carb placement.

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

hey thanks for the comments guys. Yeah Swampy it is like you guessed and just like chayes said - sleeved. A lot of people do it on tubing with a dark background like cobalt or black, but I wanted to only use clear. I'll admit I am impressed with the fume results I got from the first piece I made with the schott...

Swampy--texture tube,fume the tube, sleeve tube.

Cool piece, very interesting shape and carb placement.

Thanks man. I had a lot of fun making it and I did some new things I had never done before... like attaching the solid horns to a hollow shape. It went pretty well, but I really need to get a handtorch.


So I went on a mini-hike today and got some cool photos........

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

It is amazing how different the glass can look with sunlight vs camera flash...

[The Lorax]

cool piece.

and honestly i hate how much glass can vary with a flash or in the sunlight. always extremely paranoid of putting bad pics on my etsy and having a disappointed customer when they receive my glass but usually they say it looks way better in person.

[CripSkillz]

Thats good fume and nice piece too ,, so is that gold first then silver over it,, just a good ratio aye.. that green is sweeet..

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

Thanks crip - I did silver first and then gold. Probably 3 or 4 times as much gold as silver. I think the gold sticks to the glass better if you fume it over silver.

[naughty pirate wench]

yowza - lookin' way sweet! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pics you took outside - really nice background that shows off the piece well.

[ALIEN!]

NICE! I agree w/ fuming over silver helping to stick. Gotta say, I never disliked the BA for fuming, but my fumes never turned out as nice as yours with it. Way to go man!

BTW, are you running the stuff through the kiln for any extra cycles?

[sertaiz]

i wish i could do anything close to that fuming,

doesnt it feel a little more natural and less sticky, almost?

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

yowza - lookin' way sweet! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pics you took outside - really nice background that shows off the piece well.

Thanks Christine! I gotta start taking more glass photos outside.

NICE! I agree w/ fuming over silver helping to stick. Gotta say, I never disliked the BA for fuming, but my fumes never turned out as nice as yours with it. Way to go man!

BTW, are you running the stuff through the kiln for any extra cycles?

snake- No. I only ran this through the kiln once to anneal it. It would be interesting to see how it could change in the kiln over time, but I have a feeling it wouldn't change very much. I have much more luck with flame striking fume rather than kiln striking. Oh and I didn't flame strike the piece either... hahaha

i wish i could do anything close to that fuming,

doesnt it feel a little more natural and less sticky, almost?

Hey sertaiz - you CAN do something like this. If you believe you can do it your chances of success will increase. If you/anyone want some tips/help I would be happy to offer some advice, but by no means am I an expert.

I don't know exactly what you mean by less sticky, but I do think the schottBA does flow differently. I still need to melt more before I can really compare it.....

[Lub]

Dude this piece is cool as hell. The shaping is really unique, carb placement is bad ass, fuming looks insane. It's a dry right? couldn't see a stem...
I was told by Bob snodgrass himself, as well as another glass bad ass (Doug from the menagerie...) that the greens are achieved by light silver then heavy gold. About a 1:4 ratio. you definitely found the ratio. So is it the tube being sleeved that you fume, or the sleeving tube (On the inside) or light silver on the smaller tube and heavy gold on the sleeving one? That might get some cool effects...keep it up

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

Dude this piece is cool as hell. The shaping is really unique, carb placement is bad ass, fuming looks insane. It's a dry right? couldn't see a stem...
I was told by Bob snodgrass himself, as well as another glass bad ass (Doug from the menagerie...) that the greens are achieved by light silver then heavy gold. About a 1:4 ratio. you definitely found the ratio. So is it the tube being sleeved that you fume, or the sleeving tube (On the inside) or light silver on the smaller tube and heavy gold on the sleeving one? That might get some cool effects...keep it up

thanks man.. I appreciate the comments. The way I did this piece was just fume silver/gold on the inner-tube.

[Tunnel Pig]

If you want to have your gold fume stick better without hitting it with silver first, just take a clear rod 6,7,8 mm rod and heat up a gather and make like you're heavily fuming the piece.

The sodium being released from the clear glasss acts almost like a little encasment making the fume more resilient to burning away.

[Lub]

yo tunnel pig thats an interesting trick. i've yet to try fuming gold, does this apply to silver too, or just gold? and I thought it was silver then gold?

[ras_eel]

hehe i thought they were 2 different pipes cause the colour changes so much in teh sunlight. nice work

[Tunnel Pig]

Bo,

Buy some gold and try it out.

Not trying to be a dick, just saying you don't have to go silver then gold or vice versa. You're going to get any number of different colors depending on fume ratios, which goes first, inside or outside....

Definitely works though