Kato's work and progress

**Kato** · 03-26-2010, 08:00 PM

Sup everyone! The past few months I've been working hard at job #2 saving money and setting up my new home studio, and while its not totally finished I've gotten to the point where I can safely work

I'm planning on building a hood and mounting the fan in the upper part of the window. Also I want to build a separate table for my kiln as I have found I would like to have the arm room.

pics time!

some select work from the last few nights

sections for a headie

Im also going to be doing the live glass webcam thing.
http://www.stickam.com/think_green
Please leave your comments, critisism, suggestions, and what-have-you I love hear it all!

~TG

**Jeremy D.N.** · 03-26-2010, 08:08 PM

safely work, and then some! thats a sick ass set up. how long have you been torching?

**Kato** · 03-26-2010, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by REGIS

safely work, and then some! thats a sick ass set up. how long have you been torching?

thx man the ventilation def does the job. but sometimes i still worry ha

a hood would be nice. and ive been on and off the torch for about 8 months now. Finally moving to full time

**hippi** · 03-27-2010, 01:10 AM

nice dude! i saw you on the cam the other night with crip..thats a sick ass GTT you got there i like the black! the pendants and pipes are dope to..what colors you use for the honeycomb with the orange dots?

**Kato** · 03-27-2010, 10:31 AM

thx hippi, yah ive really been enjoying the webcam thing. Except when I nick my screen when pulling points

...And I think the honey comb was blue caramel w/ silver fume.

**Devils Defect** · 03-27-2010, 11:32 AM

Looks like a sweet setup man! Love the black torch. Looks like you are working in a reducing flame a little, dunno if your meaning to do that or not tho. Anyways works lookin cool

**Kato** · 03-27-2010, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by Devils Defect

Looks like a sweet setup man! Love the black torch. Looks like you are working in a reducing flame a little, dunno if your meaning to do that or not tho. Anyways works lookin cool

Thx man, yah i love my rasta mirage its not a reducing flame ha just thought the propane running for the pic looked cool lol.
heres a better pic

**Boss** · 03-27-2010, 01:47 PM

i just got the same torch, but hav'nt burnt the black off the tip yet....i love it!

**Devils Defect** · 03-27-2010, 02:44 PM

lol, wasnt talking bout the torch picture. haha

You work has a lot of muddy colors is what i was talking about, that is from not burning off the haze on the piece. Use more oxy and you will get rid of that and show the true color. Thats what i meant and dont know if you wanted the muddy color or not. lol

**Tylerdurdin** · 03-27-2010, 03:52 PM

Love the setup man, thinking about getting the same kiln.

Really dig the hammer, tried one today after i saw yours!

**Kato** · 03-27-2010, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Devils Defect

lol, wasnt talking bout the torch picture. haha

You work has a lot of muddy colors is what i was talking about, that is from not burning off the haze on the piece. Use more oxy and you will get rid of that and show the true color. Thats what i meant and dont know if you wanted the muddy color or not. lol

Oh ha sorry DD

that makes sense now. I just bought about 15 lbs of new colors and have been experimenting. i was wondering why the colors were so bland looking, thx for the tip ill be sure to turn up the oxy a bit!

**Kato** · 04-01-2010, 11:03 AM

I got super inspired to make some different glass late last night, here's what I just pulled out of the kiln.

Big Spoon-
This one seems to have some of what I'm assuming is silver fume that just did not want to burn off at some places..any ideas?

Turtle

And...My first INLINE!

Its a little wonky here and there but it works great for the most part, and I learned a TON doing this little project.

Thx for lookin!!

~TG

**SNYD** · 04-01-2010, 11:25 AM

Looking good for less than a year in. One question though, why did you put your fan so low? Heat rises and you may have better luck moving it up, if you plan on building a hood.
Keep it up.

**Kato** · 04-01-2010, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by SNYD

Looking good for less than a year in. One question though, why did you put your fan so low? Heat rises and you may have better luck moving it up, if you plan on building a hood.
Keep it up.

thx SNYD, the fan is just there just temporarly and the plan is to mount it in the upper window. I was actually planning on fixin up my hood this weekend, but this damn snow...

**wieseatron** · 04-01-2010, 02:45 PM

Nice work
For that spoon did you use english ivy? Because I've had similar colors like that come out from unencased and over reduced areas.

Btw on that piece did you coil pot or encase a tube w/ color and then clear?

**Kato** · 04-01-2010, 07:28 PM

Thanks wieseatron!
Yup thats english ivy, and I was told by a friend that I may have just put too much silver fume on it, thus the fumy lines. Also, I used a piece of 25 and layed down the ivy on top, than clear dots.