Signature Cane tut???

[fyrebeadz*]

Does anyone know how to or has anyone written a tut on making your own signature cane? I'd love to learn how! You know, like with 2 initials for your first and last name and the year, like 2007. Or just 07. Any help is much appreciated!

THX!

Donna

[Glassgoodies]

http://www.glasskitchen.com/make.htm

[fyrebeadz*]

Thanks Shawnette! I'll check it out!

[pipojasper]

From the link website
"A simple cane like this one can take about three hours. The complex
murrine we make can take up to two weeks to complete, and can be the size of a softball before we pull them down to a cane!"
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OMG! Wow, I would never have the patients to make this as cool as it is :)

[Emily]

The complex
murrine we make can take up to two weeks to complete, and can be the size of a softball before we pull them down to a cane!"

Here's a link to the main page, so you can browse through and see some of their complex murrine. (Chris and Lissa Juedemann). I think their complex murrine aren't built in the torch, but are done by putting together a bundle of cold stringers with each stringer representing a "pixel" in the picture, heating it up in a kiln, then pulling it out into cane.

http://www.glasskitchen.com/

And for an example of insanely complex murrine, here's a photo of Loren Stump's masterpiece. It's a little bit larger than a business card. It took a whole heck of a lot longer than two weeks. I don't know that he even estimates the number of hours that went into it.

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Getting back to the signature cane, Cindy Jenkins' "Making Glass Beads" has a page in it that shows all the letters of the alphabet and suggests the order of how you should apply the glass to make each letter.

[Emily]

And speaking of Chris Juedemann, he dropped by the Studio section of the Forum today and posted a link to a YouTube video showing him making a marble with one of his complex murrine and a whole bunch of little murrine. It's edited to take the process of making a two-inch marble down to about two minutes, but it's a definite must-see. Also interesting if you want to see someone using a Stump Sucker. At the beginning of the video, he has the murrine in a Stump Sucker, then you see him warming it up, then putting the hot encasing glass down on top of it. At this point, he would have tubing in his mouth that runs to an opening in the bottom of the Stump Sucker. When he puts the hot glass on top of what he's encasing, he sucks in through the tube, and it brings the glass down. You can see him lift up the glass, bringing the murrine with it, and showing the perforated disk that the murrine was sitting on in the Stump Sucker. He shapes that, then picks up more glass that's been heating in the kiln to cover the bottom of the marble, shapes that, and puts the marble away. Loud applause!

Marble making video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGeCpA_NJV8)

[SL Beads]

In December last year on my way back from the Gifu Lampwork Festival in Japan, I extended my trip a bit and visited Kobe Lampwork Museum and came eye to eye with the very piece by Loren Stump that Emily was talking about. They were displaying a sliced piece together with the about 3-inch uncut nugget. It was absolutely stunning!! I was already impressed by his demonstration of sculptural work on "a hog in tutu" at the Festival, but this one was too much. By the way, I did shake hands with him there (he he).
Sachiko L.