A beefy bubble trap chillum with remarkable color! The dot box fume and all the other colors will become more pronounced with the color change. This is an insanely heady chillum that will stand out in any collection!Ĥ.5 inches tall, 1.75 inches wide with marble, 1.6 inches wide without. One marble is a honeycomb fume and the other is a fumicello orb with silver halo. There are two fumicello horns, and two fumicello marbles. The stem is an intense violet fuming that shimmers with color. The can is oversized a bit, which is a fantastic way to show off the beautiful dot box fuming with symmetrical bubble trap. This is an amazing bubble trap chillum by Tyler Massoth of Moose and Fire Glass. Tyler now has a signature heady look to his work that is striking at a glance. This made his development a slow process, but that is also the reason his fuming and shaping has a rather unique look – his styles were developed on his own. Over the next 10 years Tyler refined and developed his own fuming and shaping style as he had no mentors to teach him. He did his own self education on fuming with precious metals, and started making crude attempts. Around 13 or 14 Tyler developed an interest in color changing glass and started trying to learn pipemaking. This went on for years and he learned a lot from this informal training. In 1999, at 6 years of age, Tyler started helping his dad make blown Christmas ornaments. A large carb gives easy control of your pull.Tyler Massoth, or Moose and Fire Glass, got his start in glass art from his father. Amazing heady work by KZA Glass!Īt 6.5 inches long, 2.4 inches wide, and 3.25 inches tall this is a solid medium piece. David Glass, who owned the Kansas City Royals for a two decade run that saw the franchise win a World Series championship and reach another, died at the age of 84, the team announced Friday. Fumicello approaches are all over this with beautiful tones. The honeycomb fuming in the bowl is stellar. There’s a fumed marble on the can with a fumicello implosion pillar. The fumicello is exceptional with gold fume colors that contrast against the blue wonderfully. Green fume sections as borders separate the fumicello of the can from the silver fume. It’s dialed in with an amazing honeycomb fume the color of a blue sky. The star of this piece is the silver fume on the bowl, toe, and stem. Fumed top and bottom with silver stringer middle and fumicello loop too boot. This is a beautiful fumed hammer by KZA Glass. He continues to work on his intense color fuming style today in the Midwest. Fuming provides almost limitless variety too. He found various boro colors tended to run in trends, but fuming always seemed to look good and was always desirable outside of trends. Studying there with trial and error on the bench helped him develop his own style on his own terms.Įventually he moved away from working with the array of boro colors, and in to clear boro with fuming as his main focus. He started working with color in boro and learning techniques he read about on GlassPipes, the old Org website for boro artists. There aren’t glassblowing schools available in many parts of the US, or easy access to classes by working artists. Wayne Fumicello, Owner of Fumicello General Contracting & Home. Like many glass artists outside of the Pacific NW, KZA is self taught. Fumicello General Contracting & Home Improvements, Maynard, Massachusetts. The relationship people had with their boro glass piece really got his interest. A colorful gold fumed fumicello transitions between the mouthpiece. The dot box fuming on the can is tight and colorful and is our idea of sexy fuming. He was interested in several approaches to art as a medium, but kept returning to glass. He was interested in several approaches to art as a medium, but kept returning to glass. KZA Glass started working with glass in Chicago during his high school years in the early 2000’s. KZA Glass started working with glass in Chicago during his high school years in the early 2000’s.
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