Genone's Melting Progress...

**Genone** · 01-30-2010, 04:31 AM

I've always loved glass ever since I was a kid, have been collecting glass for 10+ years and decided to make my own glass. I've been messing around on a torch for a while and decided to buy my own, got my GTT Lynx on 1/2/10 and have been loving it...
Here's some of my first glass ever made...

Some older glass...

and some stuff I made on tuesday and I made a couple dishes tonight but they are in the kiln...
Onies, working on getting constricting down

I tried a couple encalmos just to see how they would work and look on dishes, one has a blue reflector on the bottom...

**LifeGlass** · 01-30-2010, 05:28 AM

hell yeah papa doc

**Rowdy** · 01-30-2010, 06:57 AM

Nice keep it up, that is the reason I got into glass also, just a glass freak it draws you close!

**hashmasta-kut** · 01-30-2010, 10:12 AM

what happened to your old thread. isnt this a repost?

**Genone** · 01-30-2010, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by hashmasta-kut

what happened to your old thread. isnt this a repost?

Some of my photos broke rules before, I had to make a new thread, I understand what when wrong...

**hippi** · 01-30-2010, 11:49 AM

What did you use for the comb pendants? Tube or rod

**Genone** · 01-30-2010, 11:56 AM

Rod that was coil potted and blown thin, I think it was Double amber purple or purple luster, it was one of the purple striking colors...

I'm trying to find the right size cork and these pendants could function as mini concentrate holder pendants...

**hippi** · 01-30-2010, 12:08 PM

oic cool so there kinda dome shaped.. ill have to try these...im just tryin coil potting and have been turning them into small jars...didnt think of puttin a hoop on it...good idea!

**Genone** · 01-30-2010, 12:12 PM

you can make coil pot flatter and not like a dish shape but that night I just went with it and they came out really cool, that striking on the far right one is one of the best I've done...

**Genone** · 01-30-2010, 12:18 PM

My dog is sporting some of my glass too...

Love doing hempwork too, it's relaxing...

**hippi** · 01-30-2010, 10:59 PM

thats awesome! im gonna make one for my beagle... do you make the help necklace? is it just braided or is it a special knot?

**Genone** · 01-30-2010, 11:49 PM

Yes I make the hemp necklaces, not sure the name of the knot, I do spiral knots on each side to accent them..

This is an old pendant but I love it/ kept it...

**hippi** · 01-31-2010, 12:16 AM

cool im gonna have to learn how to do that... i have a lot of pendants sitting around and itd be nice to be able to wear a few..

**Borobot** · 01-31-2010, 12:29 AM

Diggin' the basehead pendants!
The spiral is called a "Half Knot" and the flat one is called a "Square Knot".

**Genone** · 01-31-2010, 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by Borobot

Diggin' the basehead pendants!
The spiral is called a "Half Knot" and the flat one is called a "Square Knot".

That's what I thought but didn't want to say it and be wrong...

**NUBBLET** · 01-31-2010, 03:05 AM

in technical terms a spiral is a half knot SINNET , a square knot is two half knots one of a left half one a right half . I gotta get some pics of my buddies ties , he takes them to a different level , they are pretty nuts sometimes .

A sinnet is a sting of repeated knots , so its square knot sinnets then half knot sinnets . Dont care just clarifying

**Genone** · 02-07-2010, 04:36 AM

Made some slider bowls for some friends, or people trying to reduce glass dust, har har...(I'm gonna buy some gong and make some of those slides, made 4 more of these slides too tonight...)

First time pushing a push

Hackysacky was the one that inspired this pendant, had to make one for my dog...

Dual shroom

Right side of the kiln is me, I was raging tonight for a while, time for sleep...

(my favorite scene in dumb and dumber, "Kick his ass seabass")

**Uriel** · 02-07-2010, 08:15 AM

LOVIN the Bone pendant, Ill be makin one for my Husky as soon as I get my shop back together!

**NUBBLET** · 02-07-2010, 03:34 PM

your stem ends will be cleaner if you melt the tube just below where you want the end of stem , now gather a lil blob on end and smash said blob so you have a T ========| let it cool the slide your tweezers along shaft and tap the disk off the end of tube , polish it and your good .

if you do this while the bowl is still hot and anneal the disk , just flash the disk and it will shock a crack around it , you can also use a shock if in a hurry , just let the glow fade give a second or two more then shock it .

You can also use this for point handles or blowtube ends .