Nice stuff there, Shatner! You a fan of Josh Simpson's work?
Yes, although he's a 'soft glass' (Soda Lime [103COE] furnace work. I work with an oxygen/propane torch, solid glass tubes and rods (borosilicate [boro] glass [Pyrex being a brand name, owned by Corning] aka 'hard glass' with a COE of 33 . I use the flame to heat and gravity to help shape. Josh uses a furnace to gather molten glass, works it on a bench, rolling it back and forth with assistants blowing in to the blow pipe (metal). Some people do work boro in a furnace. In fact, that's how the color company make tube and rod, color or clear.
I spin a small diameter tube (relative to the size of the work), we'll say half inch OD with a 4mm wall thickness. That's 'welded' to my work. I use the smaller glass tube as my blowpipe. Or I can heat a 3" section to molten on 40mm OD tube with a 4mm wall and then slowly stretch it to make my own hollow blow tube. It's called "pulling a point" In the pics below I'm using a point.
OK, not trying to spam or cause trouble or rustle jimmies, but pics help visualize working glass. Glass in a molten form is so foreign to most that it's difficult to understand. Here, you can has pics.
All of the design is on the
inside of the tube. I flared it opened and layed stringer and latticino cane
Here I'm closing the flare:
I'm taking excess glass off to get a nice 'termination' (where all of the colors come together at a single point).
Heat the glass until viscous. If you stop spinning (backward one rotation, forward one rotation, rinse repeat) it falls:
Then puff and pull/push very, very,
very gently to shape:
Different angles while blowing make different shapes. gravity will pull the glass down, but your breath puffs out the 'shoulders' (the top of the molten part, right at the blowtube)
Gorgeous artwork Shatner!
Forget the ex. They're called EX for a REASON dude.
My exes remain forgotten.
I'm a little obsessed with my tank of Maple Burley. It's letting me enjoy this juice all over again.
I have also wired up my Phoenix with a new 1.1 ohm coil in anticipation of the Kamry 100 that should be arriving ANY DAY NOW.
My RSST has vaped nearly its last drops of Brasileiro. What to fill it with next? Huntsman? Eden? Teabacco?
Thanks Scarfy! Thanks for finding me on FB, too. Your city is beautiful! And you're right. They are EX for a reason. But people do change.
If your ex looks anything like her, I say, twice is a charm.
Actually, firs time I saw .gifs of this chick, I thought it was her. Had to do a triple take. And it would be a 3rd. ...!
Hey all, speaking of Facebook I would enjoy adding you to my Facebook and seeing you outside the wonderful niche of which this thread is based. Message me if you would like to add me. It almost sounds like a raunchy personal add. 'Add me. 1800 For a Good Time' lol.
Link me, baby.
So I medicated this morning (not working today
), had coffee and installed a pre wrapped coil on wick on my IGO L on my Curve w/ Can and an Octopus ib my Atmizoo. Im going to give this a try. So far very tasty, a bit airy though. And holy cow, they burn through juice.
In my defense it was marked down to $29.95. Hopefully it (the Anyvape CVI) will turn out to be a good VAMO replacement.
