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2011-04-10, 8:58pm
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So, what do soft glass artists use tubing for?
I have no idea what they would use it for. I can see the boro for pipes and for laboratory glass, but what would soda lime people use it for.
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2011-04-11, 3:25am
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Christmas ornaments?
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2011-04-11, 4:43am
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Blown Conch Shells?
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2011-04-11, 5:21am
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Fancy straws for drinking your beverage of choice while you torch?
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2011-04-11, 6:01am
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Implosions work for soft glass too. You could make some really cool pendants.
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2011-04-11, 7:08am
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BellaBean beat me to it... implosions and other "boro" techniques work with soft glass too...
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2011-04-11, 7:12am
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Yes, anything you can do with boro you can do with soft glass, it's just more thermally challenging.
The first thing that comes to mind though is Christmas ornaments because the Germans have been blowing soft glass ornaments for so long and you can get the glaskolben and points already started for you.
~~Mary
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2011-04-11, 7:16am
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^ What Mary said - goblets, vases, and particularly ornaments. Also good for hollow bodies for lighter sculptures, such as Shane Fero's birds:
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2011-04-11, 7:27am
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Wow. Look at those birds, they are amazing!
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2011-04-11, 7:37am
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Those are very sweet little birds!
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2011-04-11, 12:09pm
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Those are very cool birds. Thanks for the info. There is evidence that the people who were using this glass I bought were making ornaments. Glowing uranium glass ornaments might be pretty cool.
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2011-04-11, 12:40pm
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Those birds are adorable! No "might be" Kevan, they would be fantastic!!
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2011-04-11, 12:44pm
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Shane's birds are Borosilicate I believe.
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2011-04-11, 1:09pm
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I love playing around with glaskolben seeing what I can do with it. Being such a newbie it gets really expensive to play with the pre blown tubes. I'd love yellow glowing ornaments and pendants, inside out beads, hollow beads, vessels and forms like those way cool birds so I could find lots of uses for 104 tubing. I think the community at large would go wild to get to try some.
Kevan, you've been making me drool for over a week now. Every day if it's not your stash it's your beads, and your goddesses, the way the forms flow the colour catches the light just adds up to perfection in my eyes...I would love to see what you do with the uranium tubing.
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2011-04-11, 1:14pm
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Shane's birds are Borosilicate I believe.
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I don't think so - he did a demo on a tv show a few years ago and was using furnace frits and neon (I think) tubing. I for sure remember the furnace glass though.
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2011-04-11, 1:27pm
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Yep, Shane works soft glass.
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2011-04-11, 1:53pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by irjc
I love playing around with glaskolben seeing what I can do with it. Being such a newbie it gets really expensive to play with the pre blown tubes. I'd love yellow glowing ornaments and pendants, inside out beads, hollow beads, vessels and forms like those way cool birds so I could find lots of uses for 104 tubing. I think the community at large would go wild to get to try some.
Kevan, you've been making me drool for over a week now. Every day if it's not your stash it's your beads, and your goddesses, the way the forms flow the colour catches the light just adds up to perfection in my eyes...I would love to see what you do with the uranium tubing.
Faerie Frolic
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Thank you, Rowyn. What a nice thing to say.
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2011-04-11, 2:50pm
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Squid is correct . Shane Fero's birds are 90 COE. I used to own one of his videos. Deborah Carlson also uses soft glass neon tubing. It's 90 COE and compatible with Bullseye. That's what we used in her class. She makes these with tubing:
http://www.deborahcarlson.com/galleryWork/organic.html
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2011-04-11, 5:03pm
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Who makes the 90 COE tubing?
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2011-04-11, 5:07pm
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Who makes the 90 COE tubing?
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Neon supply companies make it. I think you have to buy a ton to buy directly from them. I bought a bunch from someone here. I think her name is Acme Girl but I'm not quite sure. It's not expensive compaired to the Lauscha 104 COE tubing.
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2011-04-11, 5:26pm
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I bought 10 tubes from a local neon shop - I think he charged me a couple of bucks each.
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2011-04-11, 6:38pm
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^ What Mary said - goblets, vases, and particularly ornaments. Also good for hollow bodies for lighter sculptures, such as Shane Fero's birds:
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Wow! Thanks for posting these... never seen them before. Outstanding!!
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2011-04-11, 6:50pm
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2011-04-12, 4:57am
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I learned on soft glass tubing. I do ornaments, vases, bells , perfumes, goblets, etc etc etc
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2011-04-12, 11:39am
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I learned on soft glass tubing. I do ornaments, vases, bells , perfumes, goblets, etc etc etc
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Who do you get the tubing from?
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2011-04-12, 1:00pm
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I'd use it for easy rod encasing...I do that with boro too. I just have never heard of or seen any soft glass tubing.
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2011-04-12, 3:30pm
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I still don't know if these rods are boro or soda lime. I did find a couple of pieces of tubes with pulled points that are labeled (the only ones that are) and the label says "soda lime".
So people actually put the cut end of a tube of glass in their mouths and blow into it? That seems dangerous. lol
I've got some opaque tubes, a really big tube of clear, lots of dark blue and dark purple transparent tubes, the uranium tubes, yellow translucent tubes and red translucent tubes, some green transparent tubes. Even an opaque uranium tube.
It needs to be cleaned, it's really dirty from being stored open for 25 years. How to clean a 4 ft tube on the inside???
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With these - taped to a longer handle. They are cloth at the tip and work great.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/p...=2,50560,10209
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2011-04-12, 4:59pm
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Quote:
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I still don't know if these rods are boro or soda lime. I did find a couple of pieces of tubes with pulled points that are labeled (the only ones that are) and the label says "soda lime".
So people actually put the cut end of a tube of glass in their mouths and blow into it? That seems dangerous. lol
I've got some opaque tubes, a really big tube of clear, lots of dark blue and dark purple transparent tubes, the uranium tubes, yellow translucent tubes and red translucent tubes, some green transparent tubes. Even an opaque uranium tube.
It needs to be cleaned, it's really dirty from being stored open for 25 years. How to clean a 4 ft tube on the inside???
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Yes, you do blow directly into the tube. When I took Deborah Carlson's class we fire-polished the end of the tube that we would use to blow into (let it cool first - ouchie). We then heated the other end of the tube and melted it closed. You can go from there. We blew globes at the ends of our tubes and rolled them in Bullseye frit. You can pull the globes off off of the end of your tube and then make another until the tube gets too short. I left mine on the tube. It looks like fairy wand.
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2011-04-12, 5:19pm
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QUOTE=Wiley;3483964]I'd use it for easy rod encasing...I do that with boro too. I just have never heard of or seen any soft glass tubing.[/quote]
I have loads of it, I got from a friend that bought out a scientific glass blower
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