Some new stuff

[CripSkillz]

thx guys, n ya chad the orange n blue is just fumed then striped with color then clear in between,


ya and i have been pulling them thin and just snapping it off n reducing it back also

but now i made one of the scissor jack tools and it makes a nice jack line you dont have to thin it out, it worked good to make a dent and i kept running the grove to cool the glass more then whacked it on the torch and it snapped clean and thick a nice 2 to 3 mil thick wall perfect snap i like it..

made it after seein bigskyglass's one he had heres the pic in this thread

http://www.thegldg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18782

[The Cheese]

Must be the stress caused by the angles that makes it so easy to snap off. Imma hafta make me a set of them things. Looks like just a plain jane set of shears on a wooden block, eh? Easy enough...

[CripSkillz]

yup super easy enuf, and it the stress caused by the cooler metal on the glass and the line your putting in it , i just suck a lil more heat out by running it up the blade still spinning it, till its cool er then snap it, only tried it 3 times so far but all 3 went well..

[Maximo]

Lookin good Crip

[CripSkillz]

Got a baron marble mold yesterday - finally shoulda got one long time ago, oh its awesome I love it already..

it was suposta be red dots with black shafts but it didnt come out that way, only got the red to implode, maybe i need just a pin point of red then bigger dot of black on the back of it??

[chadpinkerton]

well when u encase the outside do u just heat it up and puff out then sink it back in to make it smooth? but still amazing as balls. so when u make a thick as spoon what thickness of glass do u use? and finally i only have enough to buy a bobcat and i know ill only be able to do small spoons and chillums but i guess im just lost on the technique on how to make them like super thick. like certain chillums have some sick thickness, cud someone point me in the direction of a decent tut? thnx

[CripSkillz]

Ya chad pertty much, check out the tube encase video on the site here thats how i learned it.. http://www.thegldg.com/forum/videos/


alright so I did some testr work last night ACME colors, and i like em

used the purple without a label, yellow, and trillium white,

I striped a cobalt tube then encased, they were a lol bubbly going on even working back in the flame,

but they all came out lookin good when finished and i worked on this for over 2hrs,, in and out of kiln, cracked like 5 times but got it together,,

only thing about the purple is it thins out alot over clear rod, thats what i used for horns same colors but i should have used a cobalt center instead of clear,,

here are some pics all ACME color xcept the cobalt and clear..

[Big Jay]

ACME colors, and i like em

they were a lol bubbly going on even working back in the flame,

cracked like 5 times but got it together,,

only thing about the purple is it thins out alot

kinda curious about those statements. Did you like them because they were free? I mean if your doing a purchase would u buy those colors again over NS,GA , Momka? Been hearing kudos from a few people but the pieces we got had so many stones in them and bubbled like crazy that I am seriously confused.

[CripSkillz]

ya basically i liked em cus they didnt bubble that much, jsut while i was applicating, the yellow was teh best yellow i have used yet, as far as bubblin goes,

and ya id buy some, but i usually buy seconds or what i can get cheapest so I may not unless theres a sale, i still got a shit load of yellow seconds NS, they bubble madly, but then again im just learning more every day so i think im just finally learning the whole flame thing, and how to keep color from gettin to jacked up..

i still love momka multi rods and NS GA pertty much everything i use has been good xcept for greens, i still hate em

oh ya and my cracking was just from me trying to do a big encasment on a lil torch, forgettin to go re heat ya know..

[richsantaclaus]

Hey Crip - VERY nice round thinggy! you made there - who taught you that stuff anyway...lol!

[CripSkillz]

Hey man thats your doing, had a chick that wanted a flower onteh end of the piece and i was like hummmm, i think i can do it, 1st try after watchin yours it wasnt to hard its just a small one..

heres the new from last night

oh ya and that one was a amber purple blow in looks like shit, why cant i get my Ap to work right AHHHHHHHHHH,

[ShttrdSpctrm]

lookin real nice crip. with the AP, you gotta blast the haze off. then you can flame strike ot kiln strike. the flame strike works best, imo. but you can get the same effect both ways.

[CripSkillz]

Thx Shatt me wrkn on it

i just cant seem to ever blast it off, i dont know what my problem is but i got that fkr smokin white hot n it still was total haze, hummmmm

ok ya and outa the 5 i had to sell the chick picked that ugly brown blob, that has a jacked up marble that cracked in half for the front JYD, and i thought was the ugliest oh well glad to be rid of it hehe..

[Lurch]

People always seem to pick the uglesit pieces to buy. I think it's so funny! Happens to me too.

[ShttrdSpctrm]

the ugliest piece will always sell first. it never fails.
crip, you gotta blast the shit with oxy. TURN THEM SHITS UP! really, so your flame is almost blown out. well not that bad but, you'll get it. just turn them shits up. the oxy

[CripSkillz]

ok so i might have just figured out the oxy flame last night, maybe but so what i did was just turned up the oxy till the flame was almost blowing out then just a hair back,

that should be oxy flame right??

burnt off the haze real nice n easy but still haven't tried it on a hollow piece yet , but the rods are coming out nice

that sound like a good way to get oxy flame?

[mer]

yeah, you got it mang. 8m is a naturally reducing torch so you really have to bump the o2. that'll solve a lot of problems for you.

[ShttrdSpctrm]

hell yeah, thats what I'm talkin about. turn them shits up

[chadpinkerton]

alrighty guys i got some questions and seeing as u guys are like all knowing about glass i need some help. today i made my first AMAZING spoon that im really proud of i really like it and i used a "stick stack" method to make it and its cool but... i still am lost on certain things. okay so one of the pics i attached is of a swirly green chillum that i saw of gp.org so i was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of a video that illustrates how to do this. i realize that its a reversal but im still oober lost on how to do them and ive learned pretty much everything from videos on the net. also the second chillum i was wondering how to make it really thick right under the bowl. how do u do that the chillums ive made only come out as a rod with a bowl pushed in to the end any ideas on how to do that? so im on a mini cc for the moment and chillums and small small spoons are like the maxium that i can do at the moment. i was just wondering how these are done so i can start rocking out some mad chillums. also when making a chillum like the non swirly green one what thickness of tubing would u use?
thank you in advance yall.

[Dom]

First one is three reversals, lots of posts about this.

Second one, just melt it down to make it smaller.