New pendant style i'm working on. (Space)

**Zero** · 03-08-2014, 04:14 PM

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I have been seeing alot of the spacey scenes lately (fume on black w/ airtraps)
This is similar but i added in a sorta nebula looking cloud to the front.. Just looking for some critique wondering if anyone has seen something like this.

**mer** · 03-08-2014, 04:19 PM

I can't really see it but the implosion behind is nice

**Zero** · 03-08-2014, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by mer

I can't really see it but the implosion behind is nice

Yea that is why i have it in the sun.. my phone camera sucks. It is kinda a backward implosion. Frit poured inside of a tube then condensed solid... So it doesn't petal outward it kinda just looks like a cloud or and explosion. Wish i could capture the depth of it.

**KLAW** · 03-09-2014, 06:49 AM

Looks pretty sweet Zero...Good Fume Job, Really Pops w/the black backing.

**FredLight** · 03-09-2014, 11:24 AM

That's a pretty standard tech, frit I/O pendants.

I was just selling at an amusement park for a month, my main competitor relied heavily on this tech.

She was selling them for $10 a piece,many had little flippers to resemble turtles.

I'd say keep making them. They're great practice and at $10 for 10 minutes worth of work, that's a great pay rate.

Figuring supplies and gas, you should be happy getting $20 to 30 an hour making these.

**Zero** · 03-10-2014, 02:05 PM

Thanks KLAW!
And Fred i guess that is exactly what it is a frit i/o pendant.
But 10 minutes? i need to learn how to get this speedy, maybe its because i'm basically on a nortel minor.
Took me about 35 to do the one pictured above.

Yea i almost started making implosion turtles but i'm desperately trying to be original here..

**dustyg** · 03-10-2014, 02:09 PM

I do stuff that's a lot like that - pretty much to a T, except that I've never got reds that nice. Has been my bread-and-butter style for about a year. Awesome job, I'd be proud to have made that. I don't sell them for $10 as suggested above - usually get $25-$45 for a pendant on a cord, but they take me more than 10 minutes, too - usually 30 to 45. Mine aren't frit-implosions, either, just fume-only designs, made with whatever techs, with a black background and shaped like that, assuming the back is partially rounded, not dead-flat.

**Zero** · 03-10-2014, 02:28 PM

Yea this was a black maria that was fumed then garaged, then i take a few pinches of large size amber purple frit (nice reds) and drop it into a 20x4 piece of tube... i blow that out and condense it a few times and that creates the cloud affect. Punty up to the front of that (it will be marble or lenses shaped) disconnect it from the tube and clean up the side not attached to the punty.. the side that is not attached to punty is then heated and pressed... to form a pendant shape (round, not oval yet) then the two pendant shaped pieces (the black maria) and the (nebula cloud) are just attached together, backing the nebula with the "space" scene.

Cool that there are people doing this type of stuff, but my method was a little unorthodox compared to how i usually go at a pendant .. so yea i'm very proud that it turned into something sellable ... most of the time i try something new and different i end up kicking myself in the ass.

**FredLight** · 03-11-2014, 10:46 AM

I'm sorry. You put more work into those than I originally thought. Definitely charge upwards of $20.

The tech I was thinkin was used was: frit into tube, condense, back with fume and black, then shape. That's what's 10 minutes on a Phantom.

Keep it up. I 'd like to see some more posted here.