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Rudy

@cruderudeglass

Hi im a borosilicate glass worker from the USA trying to share my live and life

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Rudy
@cruderudeglass Mar 17, 2018, 6:20 PM UTC

Space spoons

This is my bread and butter....its made using a blue base tube thats then poked and prodded to make small dents then covered in a layer of gold and silver fume and trapped with a layer of clear over…

4 upvotes 2 replies $0.02
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Mar 8, 2018, 6:31 PM UTC

Opal tech pendant

This pendant features a layer of small opal shards suspended between two layers of clear glass sleaved over a layer of black. Then shaped into a hallow disc with two holes for the chain

9 upvotes 1 replies $0.00
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Mar 8, 2018, 3:25 AM UTC

Dichroic vortex

This is a dichroic vortex. Dichro is a layer sprayed on glass it appears as a multi color sheen. It burns when entered into a direct flame so i encase it in a layer or clear glass as its used it brea…

4 upvotes 0 replies $1.21
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Mar 8, 2018, 2:00 AM UTC

Space racers close call

The cruderude space racer got into the 3nd round and scored this close victory with a 2.73 scrond run and a 0.004second win you can see my front tire just edge his car out

9 upvotes 0 replies $1.17
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Feb 27, 2018, 4:07 PM UTC

Glass "pine" wood derby car

At a trade show i recently attended we had a glass pinewood derby race with the cars being sold to charity at the end. The rules were it had to be made of glass and a functional pipe also weight limi…

7 upvotes 2 replies $1.85
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Feb 4, 2018, 6:13 PM UTC

Elephant opal end

Here where the elephant opal ended up. The beaker is created by sleaving(layering) a base color (cobalt) in clear after fuming gold (oranges)and silver (blues) to achieve a space like color the opal…

10 upvotes 1 replies $0.79
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Feb 2, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

Elephant opal gem cut

Here is the elephant in its gem cut glory it has 16 faces on the first cut 8 on the 2nd and 4 on the 3rd with a table cut on top to view the opal in all its glory thru. To get it from round to facete…

16 upvotes 6 replies $0.71
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Feb 2, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

Faceting the elephant

Yesterdays elephant opal is back in the shop getting gem cut

9 upvotes 0 replies $0.38
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Feb 1, 2018, 1:27 AM UTC

Opal elephant

Today i encased an elephant shaped gilson(manmade) opal its measures 12x20mm tomorrow it gets faceted like a gem stay tuned .

10 upvotes 2 replies $0.78
Rudy
@cruderudeglass Jan 31, 2018, 10:23 PM UTC

Tools of the trade 1 lathe

This is one of the most vital tool i own to creating my art.its a glass lathe by Litton its 7 feet long and can fit up to 75mm piece of glass 5 feet long i use it to help me shape large hallow items…

5 upvotes 2 replies $0.76