So these first three images show me creating a custom hollow tube of any color by starting with a 10mm blow tube, with the end flared out and then I take solid rods of premade color (not pictured here gotta find better example pictures or take them) and place both the blow tube and the rod of color into the torch at the same time, constantly spinning them in my fingers to allow for even heating. My torch runs almost 6000° I burn propane and oxygen together, I'm waiting on a new torch in the mail currently and I'm super excited for the upgrade!
But while both items are spinning I start laying the rod around the flare to achieve what's known as a coil pot, or the beginning of a tube. Depending on the shape and size you are going for you may need many rods of color, using a clear glass rod attached to the bottom as a handle to keep your fingers out of the fire 🔥! One rod gets a tube of average thickness 3-4 inches maybe, and you want to give yourself excess room to work if possible.
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You can see my skill increase over time, this art takes a ton of practice and skill. This blank below is probably the cleanest wall weight I've created yet. Could've been longer for sure though sometimes I'm just experimenting (most times)
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This is one of my first completed two piece pipes
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A lot of the rest of the process is difficult to catch verbally and without video. Once this tube is created I use heat and gravity to shape the pipe head by blowing a bubble, then once that is evenly heated and formed I pop a hole using a tight sharp flame and more breath, then soften the flame and heat around the hole to use a bowl push to create the indentation, and then sharpen the flame again to pop the carb hole on the preferred side. After that an artist can apply dots or accents, thicken or shape the tube body, and eventually heat the connection to the blow tube to pull it back cut the glass open and use a reamer to even out the mouth piece. This step requires sure hands and grace to make them perfect and consistent, definitely one of my learning curves!
I hope this tutorial was a little better and more detailed than my last, everyone let me know how I could present it better in your opinion down below! Thanks for the read
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Thanks a ton! I definitely need to work on my content creation but it takes all I got learning the glass 😅
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Greetings friend, it's good to see that you want to improve, these photos and explanation are a little better, but you know it's good that you put your photo in some post with the end or the process so we know that you are not a fake person.
There are multiple finished pictures there, I'm sorry I didn't not clarify that enough, I was honestly trying to piece together pictures of each stage from my camera roll, but I think next time taking pictures during the act will be most effective to show a clearer progression. If I can post video somehow (I guess on three speak?) I would be able to show some cool things much more easily