My progression/critique my shizz thread!

[samoth890]

Hey hey Melting Pot! My name is Thomas. I live in Oklahoma, and have been on the torch for about a year. Made hothead beads for quite a while, started some small boro, and recently I've been working on pipes. My roommate and I are the only boro lampworkers I know of in my town, so we decided to try to stock our LHS with local glass. Anyhow, I've been lurking on this forum for a while now, so I figured it was about time to show you guys something/introduce myself. Which, hopefully, this would be the right place to post such a thing. I tried to focus on fundamentals, melting everything in well and keeping the walls thick. Here are a couple spoons and chillums I made the other day that I thought came out pretty well. Ignore the massive amounts of fingerprints, please...

Orange/black/white themed spoon for a friend:


Slyme/black dotted spoon. Tried for dot box but obviously I had no idea what I was doing.


Plain clear chillum with Paparazzi roll stop. Focused only on thickness for this one, dropping didn't break it.


And these three are of my favorite, another thick chillum but with a tentacle eyeball and some dots. I had little faith in my eyeball as it was my first one, but I actually dig the way it came out!




Anyway Melting Pot, let me know what you think about these! All comments/critiques are more than welcome!!

-Thomas