how do you make your tube?

**aREa541** · 05-07-2012, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by MUPH

Vac stacks for line tubing, vac encasement for solid color tubing

You talkin about coil potting then vac sleeving? I have been making some candy apple tube and it looks good but I dont like the occasional seam I see the way I am doing it. I also would like to stretch the color out as much as possible without washing it out. What are people doing for their full color tube?

And yeah kut, if you are making lined tube, vac stack kicks the shit out of striping it on a tube and it is not even close. The only reason I see to do it that way is if you are making bi polar...

**hashmasta-kut** · 05-07-2012, 09:50 PM

send me a piece of your amazing vac stack and i will be the judge. i will trade ya for some of my jank tubing i make.

**aREa541** · 05-07-2012, 11:23 PM

Whoa bud, wasn't calling your shit jank. Just trying to share my experience with making lined tube, having tried it BOTH ways in this discussion as well as a few others. Take it or leave it. But before you make your decision you might want to actually try doing it more than one way first.

**hashmasta-kut** · 05-08-2012, 05:42 AM

no worries, i was calling it jank. you guys say the vacstack stuff is so superior, i was just falling in step.

i have an open mind. i will get to it in time i guess. no one around here does it, so i would have to attempt it all solo. i have never heard of much benefit in the tubing quality until now. and have heard some opposite information a couple times. most people say it just makes more prep at once. i know there are veteran artists on here who still like hand drawn tubing, but i dont know what they would say is the benefit to them. i have heard a few stories about air bubbles in vacstacks, especially whites..

**MUPH** · 05-08-2012, 12:12 PM

Everyone settle down. Vac stacks make a specific type of tubing, drawing on lines makes another. Preferring one way of making colored tubing over the other is not a personal attack.

Originally Posted by aLLsTyLEs541

You talkin about coil potting then vac sleeving?

Yes. I coil the color over clean, melt it in, then vac sleeve it. I get a ton of colored tubing this way. Use the correct colors and it wont fade out

**jr23** · 05-13-2012, 05:58 AM

Yep I do solid color like that also it works well, Although I did some yellow sunshine and it looked great tell the person used it and looks like mustard now, def want to get a dense color for the yellow I would think acid yellow would do the same as it looks great it is kinda easy to thin out.