Fresh out of the kiln

[Misfitman]

thank you!

[Nash]

fresh out the box from blue filled nightshifting

[paulsafo]

Did a white and gold fume one. Looks like shit.

[BORO]

I defiantly need to buy some small float glass plates.

[jusbag]

Bong time . Who needs a lathe? That bird is killer!

[PyroChixRock]

One of those spoons is mine, woot!

Hey Boro that's amazing.

And justin, that's bad ass! Love the simplicity

[BORO]

Hard to tell how tiny.

[jusbag]

Oh wow, yeah for some reason I was thinking it was about 4X larger..

[Joe Userton]

Hard to tell how tiny.

That's really nice .

I played around with tiny stringer based sculpture like that when I first got my Herbie, but everything seemed really brittle. It looks like you made it work well, maybe I'll have to give it another shot myself.

[BORO]

I super heat it before I install the tail feathers into a open hole. I flame heat the inside till it's all red hot and glowing /starting to change shape. I can't pick a stringer off. They all bond nice nice after the super heat.

The body/wings are hollow. Lots of cold seal style connections with the stringer. (sharp edges that are not melted in. )
I don't get any cracking issues inside the clear core bubble. I use I tiny flame for stringers. A bigger reheat flame on the clear /color edge as I build.

[glassdocnc]

That's a beautiful humming bird sculpture!

[BORO]

^ it's a pipe too. Not that I would want to smoke it, but you could if you wanted. (Per request of the client.)

"I would like a pipe, but have it appear to be a sculpture when displayed on the shelf with my other glass humming birds."

[Misfitman]

Well, what usually happens happened. I tried something new and have a ton more respect for the people that pioneered/kill it on this tech

[rvp117]

So after a 1 year hiatus I'm back
This is what it looks like when you have been lampworking for 4 years and have to start all over!

Happy 2017 you bunch of pyros!!!
Ryan XD

[jusbag]

ah yeah, welcome back!
finally got a little light box set up..

[BORO]

Nothing special. One from last night that I actually like.






I was diggin this color gamble. I think the next time I will lay up the same colors like a fade, vs the "shooting for high contrast" color hooks on this.

If you look close the one black sheep hook is the way I like it better. (More of a Dark to light fade)

[Joe Userton]

Some of the latest batch.

[Ranasp]

I just got through this entire thread, and you people are amazing. You're doing stuff with glass that I didn't even know was possible, and there's some truly gorgeous work in here.

[chillrelaxglass]

Love -crg

[Misfitman]

chills got the skills