Here you go Kaefo!!
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Both of these are
really nice pieces. May I give a tiny bit of advice? When you're doing attachments like in the first picture, it's absolutely critical to the strength of the entire piece to make sure that when you join the subject and the attacment, both surfaces should be 3rd red, or white hot and soupy. I can tell on the bottom two attachments the body of work wasn't hot enough and they were melted in after the fact. Also not quite enough by the looks of the one on the bottom right.
Please don't think I'm talking down to you or your flame worker friend. I'm not; the work is gorgeous. I'm just sharing what I've learned over the past 12 years as a hot glass artist (flameworker) to save some heart break. I've had quite a few pieces break catastrophically with 10+ hours in them. To the point that I have to trash it. I hate it and even more so, hate to see it happen to other artists.
Take this octopus for example. This is version 2 after the first one broke beyond repair due to a 1mm long section not melted in all the way. It had over 12 hours of work in to it, not including probably 20 hours in the kiln. Notice how the tentacles and the body look to be one single piece.
If I would have taken the time and made sure that my welds were good I'd have saved myself 2 days of work and several thousands of dollars of labor.
Again, please don't think i'm saying your DTs are't nice. They very much are!!!!
On another note I just bought a honey pot and peanut, both Steel House from your site! I freaking LOVE Disco Sparkle/Steel Wool. Try mixing it 1 part steel wool to 5-10 part of almost any color. Especially WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) colors, cadmium/crayon colors aside. Or mix it up with itself, pull back in to a rod and coat it with a transparent color. Instant bling. Cobalt is great if you thin it a bit before striping it on DS/SW. Also amber/purple.