Glass update.......
IT IS FUCKING HELL. For the Oxygen. The reason I hadnt posted much is because the two oxygen tanks I had werent sufficient to keep me learning. At this stage of the game, I've logged about 25 hours on the torch as far as my own actual time. Without any instruction, mind you. Lessons are like $400 for a 2 day class. Ouch! My torch is a pretty powerful torch, and it used way too much oxygen. By the time I'd call the oxygen refilling company to come out and swap tanks, it would take 3, 5, or even 8 days in one case! Now, I have Oxygen Generators, three of them (at 600w of power each, dammit!). Now I can blow glass all day long and just pay the electric cost instead of oxygen cost. Propane is the other gas we use (the red line on torch, green is oxygen), and its used at about 20% of the rate of the Oxygen so those refills are pretty easy and fast, and you can do those at a gas station or Wally Mart.
After looking at the pictures I took, they are a bit blurry, but you get the idea. Since my pipes are still young, I'll work on the photo setup later. =) Additionally, inside in a dark area they dont show much color versus actually taking them outside for a photo. The colors really lights up in the sun.
Pic 45: Remember these turds? Everyone here, and in real life, think they are dildos at first. Woops.
Pic 46: Started to work on form with a little clear.......
Pic 47: A mis-shaped black pipe and then one where I messed up on the top color.
Pic 48: Suddenly it hits me on how to make these things. From right to left, yellow flower on South of bowl, then colored carb and colored ring around bowl and flower on the end of it (looks just like a red nub in the picture), then 3 flowers all in a row, and finally no flowers but a lot of frit and lines. My first real experimentation with color. I have a long way to go.
Pic 49: Sorry, blurry. The left is a bat which is about 5-6" long. I made another with a carb on it, but you-know-who wont let me photo it because its always in his hands being smoked. The carb on a bat is really wild.
Then some more color to the right on some spoons.
Pic 50: Started tinkering with a few marbles for fun, they are neat. Then another black spoon and a blue/white colored spoon. The blue/white one cracked on the bottom because I goofed on the coloring a little bit.
Pic 51: Here's all of em.
Pic 52: I want to fill all the shelves with my own pipes. Then put in a few TV's and the Xbox.
Pic 53: There's a LOT of room.
The other two shelves are on the left side. You can barely see the 3 shelves with pipes on them, they are by the light switch in the middle.
Pic 54: Yesterday nights work, so I guess this is the most recent. From left to right, a turtle on a stand, a BIG spoon, a black spoon with a little curve and some butler buttons, and then a cobalt blue bat. The little thing with ears was supposed to be Hello Kitty! -- but isnt.
Pic 55: BIG spoon. Told ya!
Pic 56: Studio shot
Pic 57: And the rest of it.......... The 3 big machines under the left table are the Oxygen Concentrators. You think getting into glass is expensive, wait till you buy these at $700-$900 each retail.
Pic 63: Let there be lighttttttttttttttt!
Pic 69: See how that Cobalt Blue shines? I made a spoon as well, but mailed it to my grandmother already. She always loved Cobalt Blue, and so do I!
That's all I got for now. Gotten a few PM's about selling work when its done, sure!
Thanks again for reading..... Hope you enjoyed.
Kitty
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