Oh and because all blogs need pictures here is something I am working on, I taught my buddies casting class while he was away and cast the glass a couple weeks ago as a color Demo. I am tentatively thinking of calling it Sun Sled.
Note the beer in the back ground, it is an important part of the process. Specially after so many glue joints. The copper is glued together, not soddered.
There are days when I am working I feel more like a mad scientist than an artist. I also spent three hours at Lowes looking through hardware and plumbing supplies, the employees look at you funny when you stack a variety of nuts and bolts onto a glass thing and mutter to yourself. Go figure.