Hell yea! Love Jerry’s work, nice pull @CruJones
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but was that as stupid as a group of teenagers buying a nickel bag out of the trunk of a car at a friday night football game, then dumping the paper bag of popcorn just to stuff the weed in, punch a small hole in, and smoke like a true cheech and chong joint? or spraying oregano with hotshot, then drying it in the oven a few times just to smoke and try to trip? that was pretty stupid. damn, it’s a wonder any of us survived…
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Happy new year glass heads! As a Christmas gift my wife got me this killer new inside out spoon that I’m in love with! Snapped a couple shots last night, unfortunately didn’t have the gas to pull out the lightbox so the colors aren’t properly represented, but you can get the vibe. Smoked probably a half dozen bowls out of it last night and she’s already starting to look even more beautiful filling in, might take some lightbox shots once she’s fully filled:
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Nano (pico?) dry hammer from BT Glass in Eugene OR, new to me, first smoke this morning was awesome for such a little guy:
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Guys I am not well, this Glass addictions is getting out of hand. New hammer inbound from Tako glass out in Washington
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Wow, love the colors!
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That’s what got me too, I did not want nor could I afford a new pipe, hit this dude rarely makes hammers and the colors popped so hard that something just came over me
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Yeah man, I’m sure it was a pretty penny but ultimately I can see it will be worth it lol. At least you spent it on something that should last
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I keep telling myself they’re heirlooms. Haha. The dispo down the street from me that just opened up offers the option for consignment glass sales, so I can always try to sell some of the collection, although every time I think of what I could part with I come up with nothing I’m willing to get rid of 
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@LegsMahoney I got basically no money for anything nonessential like heady glass right now, but this one has me thinking about selling some shit on Craigslist because I think I need it, that mouthpiece is exactly the same worked look as one of my first handmade spoons, except with the loop and better lampwork:
$150 seems totally fair to me
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Nice hammer! I’ve been looking at one artist that does work similar to that with the inside out technique - glassberry. She’s got some really cool ones, I was going to order direct but noticed at checkout $300 order required… that dissuaded me ha.
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Duuude! I was looking at glassberrys work too, almost bought a spoon from them, but gorgeous work too
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Yeah her direct prices are awesome, but it’s definitely for shops buying haha. I was going to get a chillum… need a nice thick piece for shows hiking and travel. Her sherlocks and hammers look great too.
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Jerry Kelly’s chillums are real nice too, usually around $80-ish retail, super thick though, very durable, got 3 of em myself 
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Ah yes I’ve eyed his stuff for a bit. Just got to track down one with stealies ha.
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New hammer from Tako Glass showed up today and I couldn’t wait to pull the lightbox out to photograph and post about it, had to just throw it on the butcher block and snap a quickie:
This thing is gorgeous in person! Beautiful fuming and inside out work, fits the hand perfectly and is so thick and chunky I’m pretty sure I could use it as an actual hammer to drive nails with. Definitely gotta function test tonight to see how she puffs, maybe with some of @JohnnyPotseed Stop Lights that I’ve really been digging on lately! 
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Looks even better in person. Enjoy!
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I’m posting this here because I think it’s heady and old school, this is from a maker here in Massachusetts that a headshop near me carries, his prices are crazy good and the designs are great! Mine seems to be an off-catalog item he makes with scrap blocks or maybe bits with small cracks that wouldn’t survive the lathe at 5000 RPM, I think he injected some glue or epoxy into the bottom to stabilize a crack, which is super smart and I personally love thoughtful products made from scrap and waste. There is a similar one in his gallery but the head shop owner said she orders these custom because they’re so different and cool, besides his standard manufacture. I can’t remember what the woods here are, it’s an Australian ironwood mouthpiece I think and then some sort of burl tropical hardwood body, the stem is anodized aluminum I believe, and the wood smoke pathways are coated in waterglass, so they can be cleaned with a swab and ISO.
I’ll be collecting this guys work going forward, I absolutely love hybrid material pipes with wood bodies and glass or metal bowls. I might try to see if I can get him on here, it would be cool to have a fabricator on here to talk with us and exchange ideas he’s probably a cool guy!
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Damn, those things are really cool looking, I lve never heard of water glass before but it sounds cool if it works like its name would suggest. Biggest complain about wood pipes is the way they affect the flavor of the herb when the bowl starts to char, but it sounds like that stuff might be the answer
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Well, I like the insert for that reason definitely, and he seems to leave a big gap under it, I’ve toked this hard a few bowls in a row and no charring underneath yet. I was also unfamiliar with waterglass, had to look it up but it’s pretty cool.
It’s apparently a common food grade finish in Japan that’s making its way to American woodworkers:
Seems like fancy briar pipe folks don’t like it, but a simple sodium silicate charcoal heat reaction sounds great to me:
“ Sodium silicates are colorless glassy or crystalline solids, or white powders. Except for the most silicon-rich ones, they are readily soluble in water, producing alkaline solutions.
Sodium silicates are stable in neutral and alkalinesolutions. In acidic solutions, the silicate ions react with hydrogen ions to form silicic acids, which tend to decompose into hydrated silicon dioxide gel.[19][failed verification] Heated to drive off the water, the result is a hard translucent substance called silica gel, widely used as a desiccant. It can withstand temperatures up to 1100 °C.”