smolder holder's curio collection

**sleepingpeople** · 04-23-2011, 02:33 PM

lol i know your making it.. sorry let me rephrase my question..

what technique are you using to get that colored tubing?

**smolder holder** · 04-23-2011, 03:19 PM

Haha! I'm coating 25 heavy with color then sleeving it into 50x5 melting down and pulling the tube.

**smolder holder** · 04-24-2011, 04:33 PM

Lucked out into some exp. Green before my replacements come from NS. The pics just don't do it justice. Really wanna try it over some white next time.

Thanks for lookin.

**frillcappa** · 04-25-2011, 02:29 PM

Sick sherlock dude, do you have clear over the exp green there? waiting on my replacements aswell..hehe so excited

**smolder holder** · 04-25-2011, 03:55 PM

Yeah it's under clear.

**Kato** · 04-25-2011, 06:39 PM

Very nice boiseno! Lookin very shapely)

**drew1492** · 04-26-2011, 05:49 PM

Im diging the sherlocks nice and clean

**smolder holder** · 04-27-2011, 07:30 AM

Thanks guys! I love making these sherlies. I'm gonna start on bubs pretty soon but for now here is one more. This one wasn't fused to the blowtube well andd the mouthpiece blew up when I hit it with a propane rich flame. First failure on one of these in a long time. Anyway I removed the broken section and added a new mouthpiece with some shaping to hide the seam.

Exp green sleeved once again.

Thanks for lookin

**B-Rye-oNeR** · 04-27-2011, 03:40 PM

hmmm , I just realized the way I make these is a bit ridiculous. ..... I make the bowl section the other way around on the blowtube, push bowl, punty up on the top , remove handle , and use a handle to blow in bowl push to shape bottom and pop hole for connection. It works for me, but thats the method I figured out on my own. I need to try this method. Nice save there!

**smolder holder** · 04-27-2011, 03:54 PM

That's the way alien does it and it works for him. I recently did a tut on sherlocks.....here's the link.

http://www.talkglass.com/forum/showt...061#post587061

Hope that helps

**B-Rye-oNeR** · 04-27-2011, 06:07 PM

nice to know someone else does it that way, think I do it that way because I usually do bowl push before I make connections. I think the way you are doing em will work better for me though. One of my fav shapes to make, great for solar blazing, if you get down like that.

**Titus Glass** · 04-27-2011, 07:50 PM

Nice sherlocks Ryan, I dig that experimental green. I scored some exp green over star white tubing from Abe at my Cowboy class in portland. Lets melt it down mang !

**smolder holder** · 04-27-2011, 08:14 PM

Hell ya dude! When's good for ya? Would a weekend work? Hit me up about it.

**smolder holder** · 04-29-2011, 03:14 AM

Exp green over yellow crayon slide.

**Headdi Retti's Glass Art Studio** · 04-29-2011, 04:07 AM

Ryan, I like them slides, but I love the locks ....tried one last week my techniques need work but I have a section so far that did turn out sweet I need to finish it..definitely have to do a bunch of these to get use to the bridge..=)

**smolder holder** · 04-29-2011, 02:03 PM

A goblet I did lastnight for my airguy. He's an old family friend and has been kicking me down free tanks most of the times I go so I needed to give something back.

More difficult to build than I thought at first. Well I think I've made three in the past so I don't have much experience with them. The connection between the cup and stem is a liitle more wonky than I would have liked. I needed to slow down and really work my heat base before connection. Oh well, next time.

**smolder holder** · 04-29-2011, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Headdi Retti's Glass Art Studio

Ryan, I like them slides, but I love the locks ....tried one last week my techniques need work but I have a section so far that did turn out sweet I need to finish it..definitely have to do a bunch of these to get use to the bridge..=)

Yeah headdi bridging is awesome when you get it down. Just takes practice......like everything else.

**smolder holder** · 05-03-2011, 06:05 PM

I finished this piece lastnight. First time bending spirals into tubing and I'll admit it's a little rough, I need to tweak my assembly a little to make sure my welds are spot on.

Overall I'm pretty happy with my outcome. I used green/ap frit for the honeycomb mib on there.

Thanks for lookin

**IndiePendent** · 05-03-2011, 07:53 PM

That is a sick tube pull sir, I am straight up biting that color scheme tommorrow

You do the tube pull?

**smolder holder** · 05-03-2011, 08:19 PM

Haha Sweet! I wasn't to sure about the color scheme when I put it together but it turned out pretty cool. Ya indie bust it out. Post some pics. I wanna see what you do with it.

Thanks.