Fresh out of the kiln

[Jackass Glass]

i like it doug

[Ray]

cool man. Also while im a noob. I can make a spoon and am happy to facetime or skype video with you if you want some tips.

That would be cool..I have gone into The Hangout, but I kept chickening out on show ppl how bad I am

But Noob to worst noob won't bother me so much

[Greymatter Glass]

Rote learning can really help.

Instead of trying to make a complete and usable pipe from scratch, instead practice the parts first. Just pull a bunch of small points and blow them into a ball and make bowls. Then pop carbs, and flatten the bottom. Once you can do that with little effort, practice plucking mouthpieces open on 12x2.2 tubing until you can get them to pop open in 2 or 3 swipes. Next up, just practice pulling straight even stems.

The nice thing about this is you don't have a lot of time invested in each piece, and if you screw something up then you just toss it in your trash bucket and move on to the next one.

once you get the hang of one step, move on to the next... after a couple tubes of practice parts, then start putting what you now KNOW how to do together.

Best of luck, enjoy AGI!

[Ray]

Rote learning can really help.

Instead of trying to make a complete and usable pipe from scratch, instead practice the parts first. Just pull a bunch of small points and blow them into a ball and make bowls. Then pop carbs, and flatten the bottom. Once you can do that with little effort, practice plucking mouthpieces open on 12x2.2 tubing until you can get them to pop open in 2 or 3 swipes. Next up, just practice pulling straight even stems.

The nice thing about this is you don't have a lot of time invested in each piece, and if you screw something up then you just toss it in your trash bucket and move on to the next one.

once you get the hang of one step, move on to the next... after a couple tubes of practice parts, then start putting what you now KNOW how to do together.

Best of luck, enjoy AGI!

Thank You.. Sounds like a plan!

[istandalone24/7]

^^ solid advice. exactly what the dude who owns the shop i work out of is getting me to do.
i have zero consistency with blown work of any kind.

[Nomad]

I have a lot of work to do and it is very hot outside today.

[Nomad]

Sure isn't wrap and rake. It is a variation of a technique I learned in LA. Simple trick they did.
You can make these really fast but they are expensive because of all the color you use.

[Cerberus]

Those are cool Nomad, love the chrome tips!

[GlassBBQ]

Heady 6oz color changing cup. Just add coffee.

[Nomad]

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[Jackass Glass]

Dichro "blob" pendants?

[Nomad]

No actually they are implosions with 19mm heavy wall. I cut up dichro with my nippers. Then shard work the pendants.
But it is made just like any implosion. Then I make it into a disk. I do disk shaped, tear drop shaped and heart shaped. I do about 4 different colors.
I buy the dichro scrap from abr to make them. It comes in whatever color they have. So the dichro color changes all the time.

[Nomad]

I'm making them for happy life gallery. It is owned by Mike Dubois. He is the illustrator for the grateful dead. It is a nice place.
He is making a new section of jewelry and wants them and the earrings.
The earrings are implosions I make with 9.5 mmm heavy wall.

[Nomad]

I sell the pendants on a regular basis to a couple galleries for $20 retail. I get half the money. So I get $10 each and $12.50 for earrings with silver hooks and $10 for surgical steal.

[Jackass Glass]

cool, i like them, i just wasnt sure if i was missing what they were supposed to be etc.

[Greymatter Glass]

That's not bad for those pendants. They look similar in fashion to those import Chinese made "Murano Glass" pendants - those wholesale for $0.40-75 each. This is proof that reasonably prices American glass can sell in a market flooded with cheap imports tho. Good job man.

On the pipes, that's not all a single day production I'm guessing?

[Nomad]

THe italian ones and the chinese copies are made with gold lief. Similar but not the same. I have seen cheap copies from florida though that are dichro. They sell them at the same shows as me.
I make a limited amount of them. So they all sell. I used to sell them on the street and my parents would sell them to there friends. I was busy for a long time.
No the bubblers I was shipping out. They went out yesterday.
I have more all color spoons today.

[Nomad]

maybe 2 week worth of bubblers, pendants and earrings? I just started the spoons this week and some i/o chillums.