James AkersFeb 19

I have been wanting to play with these weld bends and bending my handwriting. There is an old neon tradition of "block out tubing" that was actually spliced in so that there would be no paint to chip.

I like the idea of using darker colors as the "block out" glass for all the connections. Its certainly an extra challenge, but I am liking the look.

I am gonna be bending neon at Brooklyn Glass's Hot Glass Cold Beer on Saturday. I get most of my neon tubing from there (they import from Italy) and I think this would be nice in a nice warm white and non coated cobalt blue. It took me 1, 3/4 hours to make "CHOOSE" out of scraps I had (whoops, got the whites mixed up :) )

My mom used to preach this to me when I was in high school. It changed my life... but I still sometimes feel like I can delude myself into feeling happy about a crappy situation.

https://brooklynglass.com/index.php/hot-glass-cold-beer-2/

#neon #brooklyn #event #handwriting #handmade #craft #glass #color #scraps #hotglasscoldbeer #attitude #test #studio

Show threadJames AkersFeb 24

I rebent the "CHOOSE" at Brooklyn Glass's hot glass cold beer event. This time I was able to use the Italian cobalt blue uncoated glass as the "blockout" glass and one of my favorite bright white colors- "Sunrise".

It was fun making this in the party like environment. A little distracting, but ironic that I wanted to listen to party jams and focus on bending, but kept pausing my party song jams to talk and actually party and chat with people.

I suppose that I need to buy some more cobalt uncoated glass. Now I am busy again with some neon production stuff, but in a few weeks I will have time to play more. In the mean time, I can collect more phrases to make.

I felt tickled when the equivalent of the neon tube Willy Wonka complemented the bending and side tubulation I made on the end of the "E" and cursed my choice of terrible electrodes -For some reason I find free, cheap-O electrodes amusing.

#neon #brooklyn #glass #choose #effetre #nyc #handmade #handwriting #craft

Show threadRue Mohr
@JamesAkers ! not just paint dipped! I'v never seen the glass changed like that!
Feb 24 at 4:23amWeb
Show threadJames AkersFeb 24
@RueNahcMohr This one doesnt have any paint. Yeah the weld bends are kinda tricky, but I have been practicing as I like the look. It takes a little longer, but kinda nice to not need to worry about painting.
Show threadRue MohrFeb 24

@JamesAkers

:] These are from my glass-blowing hayday, I only got good enough to have a 50% success rate, I wanted to make a laser tube (HeNe) so I look up to all who have more success than I did.

Show threadJames AkersFeb 24
@RueNahcMohr woah, yeah, those side seals can be tricky. Gotta get em nice an hot an work em in to get a good weld. The laser tube sounds really neat and like it would be a neat thing to make.