I know it has been a while and I know I never got around to posting the clasp for the pendant. I don't know that I will so i suck. But I have been working on getting a pipe or 2 made. I have made only 2, and they are transparent. I have just been working on the shaping and really working on getting the bowl shape correctly, not that it is now.

I have, on several occasions, to condense the bowl back out of the piece, reseal the bowl hole, bowl out, re-condense, and repeat a few times. I have learned a great deal, and even though a pipe might take me an hour to make right now, I'm getting the hang of it. I am also still working on an OX-3 tip, hoping the tip from Mike will be in soon.

So how about some images now.

First up we have a pipe that I made but didn't open up the mouth piece on. After reading up on ways to open a mouth piece I thought that I would try it, as I have been failing at tearing open. I tried the shock method and it didn't work. Cracked it like crazy. I was able to save it and just make a shorter one. Have a look.



Next we have the short one and the one I made tonight. So you will get to see how I saved the first one from being a complete disaster.



Now an image with a different BG color and angle.



The one thing that I forgot to do was flatten the bottoms. It is ok though. The small one rolls almost dead center, but I didn't have that luck on the bigger one. Oh well.

What are your thoughts on 1 and 2? Suggestions? Comments? Questions? None of them are welcome so just keep them to yourself. j/k