I love my thick wall cobalt tube. It's about 1 inch in diameter, 5 foot long and the glass itself is about 4mm thick, so there's a good thick blue base for whatever I decide to make. I've made spoon pipes, sherlocks, shot glasses and some other things out of this stuff in the past. As I get used to blowing glass again, I experimented with it and made this cool pipe, one I'm actually pretty proud of.
I started by fuming a thin layer of silver onto the outside, which is where the slightly metallic speckle effect comes from. Then I made stringers of white, literally just strings of glass smaller than a spagetti noodle but sectioned up similarly for easy holding. I love using those to draw on pieces, which is what I did here.
We didn't share much of my glass before partially because a crappy cell phone camera cannot do a piece justice the way my camera has done with these crappy pipes I've been sharing.
For anyone in Acapulco, this is for sale :) I'll also consider shipping if anyone reaaally wants this one.
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