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Posted by David Makalaster on 6/5/2007

I'm David Makalaster, your ten o'clock news caster.

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2010

2010 Feels good already, I got a lot of plans for this year.... If only I had two more pairs of arms I could possibly get to them all.
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2009 Was a special year for me. Started working glass full time rather than on the side as a dream, but finally a reality starting to take form.

Huge thanks to Salt, Micah Evans, and Matt Eskuche for sharing their knowledge at AGI which made a real impact on my work. The experience was amazing and those three in particular really changed my perspective on glass each in their own individual ways.

Also, I want to give a huge thanks to everyone who competed at the pipe classic where I learned a lot and was able to gather a ton of info and tips from everyone. Respect to you all, thanks for making this community so unreal.

And Eric from NY living in VT, can't thank you enough either.
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2008

2008 was the year of fear... notice how it was nothing but dry small pieces?... hahahahah.
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2007

This is all where it started.
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gotta love that handle
Corn-cob Piper: good evening and here's what's new....
6/23/2007 3:37 PM
...stickys
4EVER Nate C: 50/50 between stick stacks and stripe and encase.
7/10/2007 11:35 PM
4EVER Nate C: yea, Royal's a fuckin pimp, fun as hell to work with too. he made me look good, LOL.
7/26/2007 3:50 PM

4EVER Nate C: lol dont let my pics fool ya, i didn't waste batterys on the 50+ vendors with import glass, my shop mate was yellin out "washington made glass, right in my back yard!" then I'd hold out my hands and yell burns to prove it! People were laughin like crazy, but seriously, I couldn't FUCKING BELIEVE the amount of that india shit that was there, pathetic,at least them seattle folks were smart th though, I sold all but one of my GP,org pieces, super stoked!
I'm so fuckin pissed right now though,I got up at like 5am and started workin on a bub cause i was fiendin so bad and about fifteen minutes ago when i was about to do the mouth piece it started fuckin crackin down the neck and into the can, i started blastin the hell out of it but it just got worse, it ended up it one piece, but its like, well its awful,,embarassing, I'm so fuckin pissed,grrrrrrrrr,i should know better than to try a 10 hour piece after not workin for a week GOD DAMN FSDHUGLJASKWE
8/21/2007 11:30 PM

4EVER Nate C: why is there only one glass vendor at the boston hempfest, how many people go through there?
8/22/2007 2:40 AM
1111
Royal: that mib has 2 layers of dichro 2 different colors. i encase with 5 mm rod.
9/18/2007 4:12 AM

styles dicro
W: styles dicro spoons look like outside wrap work overtop of glass evolutions pre sleeved dicro tube, (it's expensive but sweet stuff to work!). I could be wrong but that would be an easy way to get the same effect.
10/10/2007 1:50 PM

Styles dicro pieces
Styles1: RAW DICHROIC ALCHEMY (NOT PRE-SLEAVED) APPLIED TO CHINESE BLUE FOR BACKING,COLOR APPLIED IN BETWEEN. SLEEVE WITH 38MM X 4.0. U CAN HIT ME UP AT INTERNALINFERNO(at)COX.NET IF YOU NEED MORE TIPS. OR, I CAN SEND YOU A VIDEO OF THIS TECHNIQUE FOR A SMALL FEE.
10/12/2007 8:24 PM

hey
ECH: Didn't I meet you some where this summer? Maybe at a festival or something like that? I just remember the name.

Anyway thank for the props. Nice work.
10/21/2007 2:59 PM

Comb
Stratisphere Glassworks: Thanks for checkin my stuff out. Getting your combs tight is like anything else, pactice. That one was made by dumping a bunch of frits down a blowtube into a thin pre blown bubble then shrinkin the bubble melt the frits in and blow out again. Then dot with 6mil and doing a tight pattern helps. Take your time melting it all down and shaping, to get the colours to pop I let it cool a bit then reheat to a nice glow a couple of times. Hope that helps!
11/2/2007 0:41 AM

Jake C: hey man...thanks for the comments...that ratti disc on the green piece isn't cane though, its just individual lines laid down. i've tried it with cane,but it didn't really look as good, the color on the borders doesn't lay down flat sometimes. peace
11/28/2007 2:15 PM

4EVER Nate C: its that dichrosilicate tubing, rainbow sunset over cobalt or some shit, in the case of the reversals I coverend a portion of the dichro-tube with color and then encased with clear, peace.
4/30/2008 3:25 AM

Stratisphere Glassworks: Hey, that piece was black tube textured, fumed then cased.
5/29/2008 3:03 PM

Hey!
Bishop33: The BAE is every year around the end of may. It is organized by Yisai and Kouhey of Lunar Cycle, Kashiwa Japan. I think they have a web site. If you are intereted in going next year hit me up. I will be living over there and plan on helping with it again. Thanks B-
6/4/2008 10:06 AM

sleeving
Aymie McKesson: I am selling them for $20...they are not big/not small. They take me about 15 minutes. I use no more than 3 inches 25mm color and 32 medium clear (about $2.50 in glass). I put the color on handles but sleeve right off the tube of clear to save time. I am pretty slow. Mine are cheaper than those in town but mine are ALL selling like crazy. I am used to making $30-40 for pipe production so these are making me very happy. Feel free to email me. butterflybobs(at)gmail
7/15/2008 10:06 AM

Amazon Night # 70 frit
Salt: is the answer to the question. the finish or glazed look is from the torches atmoshere (O2/propane ratio) and the length of time the piece spends in that flame. Thanks for the intrest and sick work. I love the fumed and sleeved technique. Allways different allways ccol. Piece
8/2/2008 5:32 PM

Duhh!
Salt: I forgot to say that it was a reductive atmosphere or more propane than O2.
Peas
8/2/2008 5:34 PM

heyo
Natey: thanks for the nice comment sir, practice makes perfect. the secret to the tight curls is to prep your piece really well. make sure your tapered shape is very even before you start bending. as for the webbing just pull a stringer to about 2 or 3 mil and be carefull when applying your webs, i use the mini torch to melt them into the nice shape. hope this helps man, kinda hard to explain on the computer, much love
1/4/2009 7:45 PM

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Sweeney: the effect was made by a combination of coilpoting black- then wrapping gold and silver fume- and twisting backward- I hope that makes scene- it was an experiment not always easy to duplicate- if your ever in Portland- hit me up and I will show you how its done-
1/21/2009 0:33 AM

Thanks
Corn-cob Piper: Have I already told you how much I love your handle?
4/1/2009 9:04 PM

haha
Corn-cob Piper: Yeah, I saw that right after I posted- I'm a doofus!

The new album just came out on March 17th. It's pretty awesome. It's quite a bit like the last one.
4/1/2009 9:32 PM

THANKS..
Lear: FOR THE KIND WORDS...NICE WORK YOURSELF,,PEACE LEAR
5/23/2009 10:00 PM

please
Posta: heyyy please email me at epost662(at)g.rwu.edu or snowboardbum004(at)aol.com got a few questions about your artwork!! please!
7/6/2009 6:59 PM

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