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 thenpc
The Flameworker
Registered: 01/21/11
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 Re: My 2600° Painbrush  [Re: thenpc] 1
#556221 - 05/16/11 09:36 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Some new work, getting ready for starscape.
Plus I burnt myself =[
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KaptKid
Spaced Pirate
 
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 5,616
Loc: Bright Side of the Sun
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 Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc]
#556225 - 05/16/11 09:51 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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FarOut looking glass.
Edit: Hope the burn does better.Do you do that offten?
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Child of the 60's, Tripping ever sence.
Edited by KaptKid (05/16/11 09:53 PM)
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NobodyImportant
Science Is Subculture
Registered: 05/03/08
Posts: 4,981
Loc: Jawjuh.
Last seen: 13 years, 8 days
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: KaptKid]
#556235 - 05/16/11 10:30 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nice work, Id love to commission a bowl from you when I get some $$ 
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Glass By: US Tubes, ZOB, Roor.de, Sheldon Black, Jerome Baker, Medicali, Kennaroo, Sand, Alex K, Local and Unknown Artists
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 T-Rex
Herbsman
Registered: 03/15/10
Posts: 4,920
Loc: Devils Marbles 
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I would buy the fuck out of that rasta pipe
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thenpc
The Flameworker
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: T-Rex] 1
#556335 - 05/17/11 11:38 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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My burn has almost healed itself after 5? days. I'm open to commissions and orders and people buying the pipes here I haven't sold, though I'm busy busy busy for festival season so I might be a little slow. Feel free to shoot me a  whenever.
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thenpc
The Flameworker
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc] 1
#566402 - 06/21/11 08:35 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Some recent stuff
    
   
Also public service announcement: Anyone using the terms Double or Triple blown glass is bullshitting you. It a marketing term that is meaningless.
I had a piece I made thrown full force by a customer's angry ex-fiance at a hardwood floor survive because of quality materials and a proper kiln cycle.
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Stoneth
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
Registered: 10/06/08
Posts: 25,262
Loc: No where ville, USA 
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc]
#566404 - 06/21/11 08:42 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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KaptKid
Spaced Pirate
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 5,616
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc] 1
#566407 - 06/21/11 08:45 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
thenpc said:
Dude how much? pm me.
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Child of the 60's, Tripping ever sence.
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RipVanWinkle
The Benzodiazethang
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 82
Loc: West Tenuhsee
Last seen: 14 years, 9 months
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: KaptKid]
#566412 - 06/21/11 09:02 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Perdy sweet lookin stuff!
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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
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openmind
cannaisseur
Registered: 06/06/08
Posts: 597
Loc: Cannafornia
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc]
#566441 - 06/21/11 10:27 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Awesome work man....
You probably already answered this somewhere in the thread, but just curious how long you have been working with glass  ?...
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thenpc
The Flameworker
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: openmind]
#566995 - 06/24/11 12:44 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks guys, and I've been workin with glass for something like 4-5years with some periods with no access to my torch.
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thenpc
The Flameworker
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc]
#567759 - 06/27/11 11:08 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Some new headie coloring I've been working on...
  
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THEBats
The Bridge Master
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc]
#567760 - 06/27/11 11:13 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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kickin-two-hundo said:
you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day. 
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alienscience
Farve in training
Registered: 01/04/11
Posts: 478
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: THEBats]
#568024 - 06/28/11 12:25 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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PNC, I've got a quick question for you. Do you think this set would be sufficient for starting out lamp working?
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Tech-Fireworks-Beginner%2527s-Beadmaking/dp/B000C11SD0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309285330&sr=8-1
I figure I'll just be able to do beads with it, but I was wondering if blowing small pipes would be possible too. Thanks for the help.
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thenpc
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Pipes use borosilicate coe 33 (hard glass, melts at 2300 degrees) that kit is for coe 96, 106 or something like that (soft glass, much lower temps). Any pipes you could make with that wouldn't survive your lighter hitting them but it's perfect for beadwork.
If you want to do hard glass this is the absolute most bottom rung torch you can use... link and you'll need several hundred dollars worth of equipment to make anything.
My current torch cost about 20x as much as that one.
Edited by thenpc (06/28/11 03:21 PM)
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THEBats
The Bridge Master
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc]
#568067 - 06/28/11 04:32 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think that's the biggest thing setting most people back from getting started, the equipment costs.
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kickin-two-hundo said:
you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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thenpc
The Flameworker
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Last seen: 13 years, 1 month
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: THEBats]
#568071 - 06/28/11 04:50 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Of the people that do start, the majority don't stick with it.
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alienscience
Farve in training
Registered: 01/04/11
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: THEBats]
#568074 - 06/28/11 04:55 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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So it'll cost about $500 for a start up kit with everything I need to get started?
I'm also wondering what the propane/oxygen torches need. Just a grocery store propane tank and an oxygen tank? I registered at talkglass.com btw, I'm really looking forward to learning as much as I can.
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thenpc
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propane tank - from a grill
oxygen - Big cylinders for welding or liquid (I use a 1000lb liquid tank)
Torch $100-$3000 (pipe torches are generally ~$500+ though you can on a national if you have patients)
Eye-protection ~$80
Hoses and regulators $150-200 (cant be acetylene)
flashback arrestors ~$50
refill on a propane tank (if you own one) - ~$20
oxygen ~$150/yr lease + ~$30/fill ...each tank (liquid is cheaper once you get to bulk use)
Ventilation $varies upon your location but if you dont have it your poisoning yourself.
Tools - costs vary depending on what you're trying to do and how good you are at making your own but you will be spending a few hundred if your trying to make pipes (bowl push, tweezers, claw grabbers, graphite paddle are BARE minimum).
Glass - depends on what you want
For example when I buy glass it's maybe an $800 order and shipping will be between $200-300 (you could live near a distributor and you don't need to order as much as I do though)
If your planning on selling anything you make you need a kiln ~$500 unless you can modify a used pottery kiln.
(if you don't have a kiln literally everything you make will break)
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alienscience
Farve in training
Registered: 01/04/11
Posts: 478
Last seen: 5 years, 8 months
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Re: My 2600° Painbrush [Re: thenpc]
#568104 - 06/28/11 06:44 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I'm really looking at a $1000 bare minimum.
What do you think about this kit?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Glassblowing-Beadmaking-Kit-/320719543130?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aac5fdb5a
What else would I need that's not included with it?
Thanks again for all of the help.
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