Implosion Marble Tutorial

[Anakin's Glass Eye]

Ok everybody, I completed it. Started Sunday by taking pictures. Monday more pictures. Tuesday and Wednesday, no time, Thursday done. Pretty good for me to have started and finished a project in one week.

Anyway, there's a lot of pictures so I decided to keep the tutorial on my server and just point everybody to it.

Go to my web site www.anakinsglasseye.com (http://www.anakinsglasseye.com) and look in the righthand "Latest News and Developments" box. You'll see it there.

Eventually I will find a more permanent place for it.

Hope it helps everyone.

I have not proof read it yet (I'm a little buggy and need to get away from the computer for a while), so if you see any glaring typos or creative spelling, you'll understand.

Keep it lit!!!

[Laurie L]

WOW...great pictures, very easy to understand. An outstanding tutorial !! Thank you so much.

[paintingwithglass]

\\:D/ 1664 job!! WTG!!! \\:D/ \\:D/

[Slaterville]

Anakin, THANK YOU for sharing this tutorial with us. AWESOME JOB!!!! You definitely deserve 5 stars for this.

Penny

P.S. I told you in a previous post I would be your LE slave for life if you wrote this tutorial. Soooooooooooooo, how can I serve you Oh Great Master of Implosions........hehe

[Toozygoot]

What Laurie said! Many times over!

pat

[StLouisBiker]

Definitely a 5-star!

[Mustang Dawn]

Sweet! Thanks Alot!

Dawn

[Moth]

Perfectly done. I love some of the wording you used to describe steps. How can anyone not love: "Heat and condense the tip so that it is engulfed by the mass."

Also, I have never known to keep adding more rows of designs after you have already started the implosion. This will be a major breakthrough for me!

Thank you!!!!!

~~Mary

[dogmaw]

Splendid!!! Thank you so much!

[msritaa]

Thank you Anakin. Wonderful and easy to understand tutorial.

[Tami]

Wonderful tutorial and great pictures! I´m glad you shared this with us! =D>

[Freddy]

Beautiful. I can't wait to give it a try :) Thanks very much Brad :)

[beadstillmyheart]

Excellent...even the music is great. What is it by the way?

[coyotesfamily]

that is soooo awesome! Great tutorial....

[fireworm]

FANTASTIC tutorial!!! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

THANK YOU,

Katherine

[DawnT]

Awesome THANKS! =D> =D>

[DreamMuse]

Wow, that's great!!!!! I work with Moretti, and I still want to try it! That is an excellent tutorial. Thanks for posting it!

[Rose Leslie]

A double WOW from me. That is way to cool to say for words. Your work is really great. Thanks for the tutorial.

[firegrl]

Hi
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love off the madrel work.

Have a question for you....
When you go to add your second third set of dots do you dot in the same spot as befor or over lap or just on clear glass?

In step 5 you say " Continue the process and occasionally marver gently" does this mean the area where the dots are or the sides?

Do you have any advice on where to start making it a pendent rather then a marble?

I have a very interesting cyclinder shaped bead ~ not a clue how that happened lol
I am working with a hot head and soft glass and PPP stands for patience patience and more Freacking patience. lol

It was so fun I am going to go play again.

Again thank you ~ I will be using implosion for a very loong time!

Cathy

[Anakin's Glass Eye]

Chilliwack - that's a cool name. That's what ya do when you enter a room with a bunch of chillin buds and you wack one on the shoulder and say "whut's up, bro?"

In the turorial I did not overlap and of the dots. You've made me curious though, what would happen if you melt in the dots, marver the maria flat, then add dots that slightly overlap. Oh, I know what I'm doin tonight.

You only marver to make the maria face flat again. So, no, don't marver the sides.

When your design is imploded about half way, I'd say, you can turn it into a pendant. Just marver the back flat, add some color, some frit, or some dots and melt in. Flatten again, attach a punty to the back, remove the rod from the "front" of the pendant, melt and shape the face, do the loop with the method of your choice and break away the punty.

Hope this helps.

Brad

[Blueflameart]

Great Tuturial .... 5 starz! thnx very much

[firegrl]

Hi Anakin

Thanks for the further info...Just burnt the sh*t out of my hand so thats it for me for a few days. :-({|= :-({|=

Are you too young to have heard of the band Chilliwack? lol I like the one of gettting wacked up side the head with a frozen fish. #-o

Tired of typing one handed

Cathy

[Gardengirl]

Anakin - I found your tutorial while visiting your website (very, very nice btw..... DD LOVES the music - she won't let me turn it off!!!)
Thank you so much for the wonderful, excellent, extremely clear and concise tutorial! The pictures are beautiful and the descriptions are excellent... Because of you, I actually dug out my boro (which I never do) and made my first implosion pendants for DD and DH. While they're pretty pathetic, it's a start and I can't wait to make more!!
Thanks so much!~!!!!

[Whimsey]

Gardengirl, very nice for the first time. I love it.
Brad thank you so much for the instructions on how to do this, I have often marveled at the beauty of the implosion, and now I can try it on my own. Again thank you

[shadowsong]

Excelent. Verry clear even toa Newbie like me. Will try this sometime. Thanks again and look forward to your newest tutorial. \\:D/

Sarah

[ChristyPhelps]

Brad, thanks so much! I made a pdf file out of your tutorial so I could get it all on the pages to print. I'll be happy to send it to you to post on your site if you want to distribute it that way.

OK, the first 2 I tried I kept having the Maria nearly fall off the end of the rod. What am I doing wrong? Then the 3rd, I decided to heat differently and although it didn't come off, it got terribly off centered. 4th, started looking great, but then I may have mashed too hard because instead of those mercurial globs, I ended up with flat jellyfish again. sigh.

Maybe the moon is off or the tides are weird or maybe I'm implosion challenged. I'll keep trying.

[Glass Euphoria]

A great tutorial, I tried and this is what I got. I can't wait to play more.
Thanks a bunch!!! \\:D/

[Cathie]

I so want to do this but I can't find the information on your web site. Please post a link to the tutorial so I can try this too :)

[torchbynight]

GREAT tutorial, I can't wait to try this :D I've been looking for something like this, yay!

Besides, I just like going to Anakin's site to hear the music :D hehe

[debkauz]

Damn, I finally understand it! Thanks for a wonderful tut!

[twiggyinaz]

This is a great tute and deserves a bump!

[Rudy]

Why can't I find it????????????

[twiggyinaz]

http://www.anakinsglasseye.com/tutorial-implosion2.htm

[Darlene Balkcum]

This is a great tute and deserves a bump!

thanks for the bump...I missed this when it was originally posted. I tried some implosion techniques in Andrew Browns class. I'll have to try it this week.
Thanks for sharing this tutorial with us.
Darlene

[playswithfire104]

Wow I thought it was just posted like yesterday! After reading Darlene's post I had to go and look at the original post date. This is a great tut! And for free!!!

[twiggyinaz]

Good tutes are like good taste! They never go out of style!

[annan designs]

Thanks for bumping this wonderful tut!

Peg

[ammaws]

Great Tut--thanks for sharing