Looks to be a synthetic opal encased in clear glass with some black backing. Gilson opals are compatible with boro so you can embed them in the glass while forming the piece.
A couple glassblowers doing very cool things with opals are Robo Glass and Big Z:
Also recommend checking Grandpa...
Typically a combination of silver (gives a blue tone) and gold (gives yellows and greens) fuming onto black tubing, the black provides a background to clearly see the fuming, you also commonly find marbles/pendants with fuming backed with black or a dark colour for the same reason.
I believe it...
Sorry if this has been addressed earlier in this thread, has anyone used one of Mendo Mulchers special vape grinders?
http://www.mendomulchers.com/product1.asp
They claim smaller holes and more teeth for a finer grinder compared to a regular MM.
Any thoughts/comparisons to SCS?
I would recommend checking out LL Bean or J Crew as well, they tend to have high quality products and good customer service. Nothing super stylish but well made products.
The striations are just caused by variations in the glass, the amount of heat applied with the torch and within the kiln during cooling.
The honeycomb pattern above is created (usually) by dotting clear over a striking colour (amber purple again I believe). This causes the colour to strike...
That is acheived using striking colors or fuming the glass with gold or silver. Depending on a number of factors, the microscopic metal crystals will grow within the glass, creating patterns like above. Looks like amber purple, a classic striking color, in the photo.
It is my understanding that you can typically use oil pens with very pure full melt ice hash, it is crucial that it vaporizes completely not leaving behind the residues that will typically kill an oil pen. It is the potential plant matter/solids that can end up in bubble hash that cause...
Additionally, I believe the vendor can save on shipping costs since all shipping is handled by the Massdrop distribution center so another potential source for some savings/discount.
Any reason that Vaporwarehouse sells the Minicron/Omi Lite/OPHOS including the Ti KISS cart whereas W9 only sells them with the regular KISS carts? They appear to have identical pricing.
I don't quite understand with these Nectar Collectors, aren't you just left with a dish full of half melted/scorched oil after you dip the hot quartz in a couple times? I feel like the flavor must suffer from reintroducing hot quartz into the oil over and over?
Just in the process of making an order with Sunshinestore, but I'm ordering 3 pieces and the cost is:
Item Subtotal: US $64.79
Shipping Cost: US $107.05
Which seems a little excessive for shipping, is this similar to other's experiences with Sunshinestore?