Some new stuff

**CripSkillz** · 05-02-2008, 10:31 AM

well thx Jay shit, I got all kinds of instruction right here, everything i know is right from this forum, so basically you all my teachers i just regurgitate what i see, well try anyways hahah

ya i paid 150$ for my torch and kiln, had to do some repairs n shti but was wll worth it,

and why does everyone think my torch is so small, hehehe i never even whipped it out, it does have a sm21 on the bottom and a ryder on top, so that cost me more than the original setup like 200$ more but well worth it to have a big burner on the bottom it comes in hela handy, cant wait to try a big torch someday, i might really like it.. but i get hot in front of my lil torch so i dont know if ill ever be going tooo big

**CripSkillz** · 05-02-2008, 06:34 PM

Big J you made the 420th post on my thread weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee im gona go celebrate for you...

**lucky** · 05-03-2008, 06:34 PM

hey crip right there with ya, if you gotta minute can you run through assembly steps. when to blow holes? I'm doin a sherly bub right now, and I'm going for the third attempt. any help appreciated. peace

**CripSkillz** · 05-07-2008, 11:25 AM

Humm well, I put the stem in the can and push the bowl so that hole is already in there, then i blow the hole for the attachment spot for the mouth piece and flair it to the right size, then i punty up to it and pull off the blow tube end and its ready to attach, after its attached and the seal is good ill blow the carb hole and decorate,

I just got done with 2 days of marbling with RichSanta and it was cool as hell, had a good time and made my first big marbles and there big i was stoked, im not gonna put any pics up yet cuz rich took pics and has a better camera so ill just wait,

but they came out really good i think, well have to wait till later to seee..

haven't torched so much in in my life, actually almost emptied a tank and a half..

now im gona take a break till later

oh ya marble molds are the shit now I know why you have to have one.

**Big Jay** · 05-07-2008, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by CripSkillz

oh ya marble molds are the shit now I know why you have to have one.

**lucky** · 05-07-2008, 03:32 PM

thanks for the replies. I'll post some pics when I get time to try the sherly bub. peace crip

**richsantaclaus** · 05-07-2008, 08:20 PM

I want to thank Crip for his generosity - thanks!!!!!

Here are the pix of his FIRST big Boro marbles.

Each one is abut 1 3/4" in diameter.

The pix are not in order.

I can't tell you how proud I am at Jason's progress in 2 days!!!!!

The dichro skull marble was his FIRST big Boro marble ever!!!!!

Santa

**richsantaclaus** · 05-07-2008, 08:22 PM

Here are some I made at Crips place during my visit as demos for him to learn from.....

**richsantaclaus** · 05-07-2008, 08:30 PM

Oh yeah, here is my gift to Crip!!!!!

**The Cheese** · 05-07-2008, 09:17 PM

Wow, that one with the reddish looking mesh inside, what is that.

Nice mibs by the way. Both of you! The skull dicro is pretty bad ass.

**newmexicomagma** · 05-07-2008, 10:15 PM

nice marbles. the wheelchair one is just missing the girl giving him a bj.

**EarthTones** · 05-07-2008, 10:46 PM

Looks like you guys had some fun,right on!

**richsantaclaus** · 05-08-2008, 08:33 AM

The reddish/orange stuff inside my marbles is copper.

**CripSkillz** · 05-08-2008, 12:41 PM

HEHEH weeeeeeee hell ya it was a great time, and i learned a lot so thanks again Rich, was really cool of you to come up and share some tips and torch.. defiantly good to watch someone else do there thing, learned things to even make my own work better, i guess everyone does things a lil different.

so heres what i made last night using up the last 500# of oxy got 5 pieces,,

Im liking that cobalt tube, so i just ordered some more, and some black and red, those might be fun as well, we will seee..

**CripSkillz** · 05-14-2008, 11:55 AM

here is what i did last night, not to good not to bad but,

I just cant get my amber purples to come out purple no matter what, I have the flame hissing, I try to pin point it on the color n urn off the haze it just wont go,

Is there a trick you guys know that could help me cuz I hate the way they look always reduced, Im even working it like 10 in out in the flame tried everything still cant get the good color unless its a solid piece of the color...

oh ya and all my gold dots seem to have burnt out of the clear piece so that was a waste of time

oh well im going to go try some more in a bit so well see if i can make something better..

thx 4 lookin

**voic** · 05-19-2008, 01:56 PM

very nice pieces man

**CripSkillz** · 05-19-2008, 03:03 PM

Thx man

heres a few i did last night, had a buddy over and let him play in the fire for a bit he made a nice lil blob heheheh

these were fumed silver lined with clear then fumed gold and lined with clear then encased in 38x4 made some thick pieces, and the new scissors necking tool worked awesome to make the mouth pieces, anyways heres the new

**chadpinkerton** · 05-19-2008, 06:10 PM

im just in awe i dont know how the fuck you guys do it. whenever i try i cant get it as thick or as colorful. im still lost on how to do reversals and how you guys COMPLETELY encase the inside with color like in the stemless above. i am in awe,

**Dom** · 05-19-2008, 06:27 PM

Chad the stemless above is outside color striped onto a tube. And the middle section is raked.

Crip looking good mang, for the amber puprle, just try and take a rod and burn off the tip until it gets clear, that will show you what it take to burn off the haze. Then to strike it, use a neutral flame to oxydizing flame. If you use a reducing flame it will turn all milky and ugly looking.

**The Cheese** · 05-19-2008, 06:58 PM

Really coming along nice Crip. What kind of torch are you working on? Just curious. That stemless is pretty bad ass.

As for the necking tool - are you necking it down then snapping it off or blowing out a thin spot and flame cutting? I've been trying to use my disc nippers like cosmo does in his w/r tut but I keep breaking out chunks and having to wipe off the mess. They just don't seem to want to cut the shit even when I pull it out really thin with the intention of reducing it back down to thicken it back up.

Chad, spend a lot of time reading here and watching youtube vids. There are also a couple good tut's over at glasspipes.org Takes a while, but you'll start to see things more clearly as you begin piecing it all together. Torch time is the best tutor aside from an actual teacher on a torch. Keep plugging away and pissing away money on glass and it'll come to you. I'm just now getting w/r pipes down and I've been at this for about 5 months now - takes time!