fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 15:58:22 GMT -5
This is a pendant that I made from a glass cab that I created in my studio. Hope that you enjoy the eye candy.  |
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Post by Pat on Feb 15, 2017 16:07:07 GMT -5
That is s beautiful piece!
Was the glass originally from a container, or was the class deliberately made to be a cab?
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 17:07:10 GMT -5
I set out to make the cab. I am a hot glass artist (lampworker) in another life.  |
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 15, 2017 17:09:03 GMT -5
I set out to make the cab. I am a lamp worker in another life. ME, TOO!! Boro glass. What did you do? |
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 17:14:54 GMT -5
Every thing I could. I have some of my "stuff" in a Etsy store that my wife runs (DakotaPrairieStudio). I gave up my own store because it depressed me too much.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 15, 2017 17:25:12 GMT -5
Every thing I could. I have some of my "stuff" in a Etsy store that my wife runs (DakotaPrairieStudio). I gave up my own store because it depressed me too much. When I was doing glass, I had some things on eBay. I did ok. I've never tried to sell it on etsy. I did glass sculptures and sculptural beads. Unfortunately, I developed arthritis in my back and had to give up the bench work. I worked fulltime at a famous glass sculpture company, too. I don't know if this link will work. It has the only pictures I have left (after a computer crash) of some of my boro work. I have never done soft glass. I have some, but I never got around to it before I quit. s1127.photobucket.com/user/telaformosa/library/glass I'm looking through your wife's shop now. Loving the headpins! You do nice work! |
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 17:41:46 GMT -5
Tela, thank you for your kind comments. Your boro work is very nice. I love your use of color.
I have done some boro but work mostly in soft glass because my equipment is better sized for that. I am mostly self taught. don't have much contact with other lampworkers out here on the prairie. For that matter don't have much contact with other people other than my computer.
My daughter encouraged me to produce the headpins. I did a few as a one off and she jumped on them and told me to make more. I figured out a way to put larger globs of glass on the silver wire and then manipulate it without causing the sire to bend and break. When I started there were not a lot of people doing headpins, but now there are a bunch of them and some do incredible work.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 15, 2017 17:50:04 GMT -5
Tela, thank you for your kind comments. Your boro work is very nice. I love your use of color. I have done some boro but work mostly in soft glass because my equipment is better sized for that. I am mostly self taught. don't have much contact with other lampworkers out here on the prairie. For that matter don't have much contact with other people other than my computer. My daughter encouraged me to produce the headpins. I did a few as a one off and she jumped on them and told me to make more. I figured out a way to put larger globs of glass on the silver wire and then manipulate it without causing the sire to bend and break. When I started there were not a lot of people doing headpins, but now there are a bunch of them and some do incredible work. Yeah, I was thinking it had to be hard to get the glass squashed on that silver wire without it breaking off. I really like the flat ones. Very cool. Boro runs so damn hot that I used it to fume colors onto the glass, gold, too. I could never do anything like what you do. I used welding rod mandrels to make beads. I miss working glass, but I have a ton of other stuff to do that doesn't kill me. All of my glass shop is in one giant tote just sitting there.  I think your glass cab is bad a**. Have you tried to sell those on etsy? |
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 18:01:06 GMT -5
The glass cabs totally bombed when I listed them. I tried to vary them with lots of colors and I thought they were neat but I don't think anyone could figure out what to do with them. I did not sell a single one.
I did much better selling plain one color small beads that could have come out of China at a fraction of the price.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 15, 2017 18:14:07 GMT -5
The glass cabs totally bombed when I listed them. I tried to vary them with lots of colors and I thought they were neat but I don't think anyone could figure out what to do with them. I did not sell a single one. I did much better selling plain one color small beads that could have come out of China at a fraction of the price. Well, that blows! |
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 19:43:24 GMT -5
The glass cabs totally bombed when I listed them. I tried to vary them with lots of colors and I thought they were neat but I don't think anyone could figure out what to do with them. I did not sell a single one. I did much better selling plain one color small beads that could have come out of China at a fraction of the price. Well, that blows! yep could not have said it better |
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ChicagoDave
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Post by ChicagoDave on Feb 15, 2017 22:12:37 GMT -5
I really like this piece. Great job!
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 16, 2017 10:25:42 GMT -5
Great idea..........Liking the material!
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 16, 2017 12:32:06 GMT -5
I like this, nice metal work too. I have a torch I picked up at an auction for a couple bucks, I might take a pic and post it and you could tell me if its a glass torch or just scrap.
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Feb 16, 2017 19:23:31 GMT -5
I like this, nice metal work too. I have a torch I picked up at an auction for a couple bucks, I might take a pic and post it and you could tell me if its a glass torch or just scrap. I would not mind helping. Most glass touches use oxygen in addition to a fuel like propane. You use the oxygen to raise the heat of the torch in addition to controlling the amount of carbon in the flame. The temp and carbon interact with the chemistry of the glass and have a big impact on the color. That said there are some simple torches that just use mapp gas. It all depends on what you want to spend money on. The RTH community does a lot of home made and self made tooling that I don't see in the hot glass community. |
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