Morning! Have a wonderful Sunday wherever you are....
I'm off to play, "fern gully" style at a forest nearby
I'm off to play, "fern gully" style at a forest nearby
Yayyyy, kcos!
Bert, are there any other new vendors getting Trippys so I can stalk them? If so, can you tell us who.
That single ring one is an oldie but goodie. Let me know if you want it updated with the 2 ring design!Here are my 2 new tips I got love them both so much!!!!! i'll post a better picture later when I can use my camera![]()
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big wildfires all around me. doing evacs in surrounding towns
Sorry, but what is the website for the vapor king vendor that will be selling all those tips in the pictures Bert posted? I'm trying to hunt down a donut![]()
Bert or Freddy .... watching a PBS show on Dale Chihuly ("Chihuly in the Hot Shop"), and they are making baskets, sea forms, etc ...
Anyway, when they finish something, they run over to some guy in a flame suit, he supports it, and they use some tong things where the pole meets to get it to come off.
Are those little tongs cold or something? You can hear some cracking sort of noises, and a couple things shattered.
Chihuly is sitting there drawing with a whole hand full of pencils crammed together, while bunches of guys are running around sweating like pigs ... LOL
(some William Morris guy is just drenched)
Coool! I actually just! ordered the blue ray version of this video, yesterday!
Haven't seen it yet, but I know the process enough to explain it a little bit. Yea, the thongs are generally not pre heated...but what I really think is that the glass that broke on them just lost too much thermal mass and cracked before they got it to the kiln. It's a huge! critical point when those guys are in that final step, and often the glass strains from thermal shock and breakseven the best of the best suffer this loss, I could only imagine what masterpieces ended up as cullet (glass scrap)
The Italian guy is most likely Pino Signoretto...not sure, but a really good guess
You know, little ribbon accents and such on such a small thing as a trippy tip are very! difficult to accomplish. The biggest concern is the structural strength of the glass. Little ribbons smaller or around 1/8" would be very fragile. Texture on a tip that's completely bonded onto the surface of the tip and flowing like a ribbon? Yea, that can happen.
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Good Day TrippyTipsters
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I hope you have a fun Sunday![]()

Morning Tripsters .... how goes it?
Delilah, that looks like DD and I at the beach .... not really, but sort of. LOL


Blu, you need to come get the gloom that you sent down here.![]()
Hugs!