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Shipping FREE donations are welcome
International shipping, $2.00, sorry, not so free.
I will ship the item when paid by PayPal or Money order and in a pinch, a personal check.
Shipping FREE donations are welcome
International shipping, $2.00, sorry, not so free.
I will ship the item when paid by PayPal or Money order and in a pinch, a personal check.... NOTE... I go online at the library. Auctions ending Saturday and Sunday will be attended to Monday morning. The library is closed on Sunday and closes at three Saturday.
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The following link are hypnotic shadow marbles in action... check it out...
Animated HYPNOTIC Shadow marble. click here!! Several views of various shadow marbles in action!
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THE SHADOW on U TUBE!!!
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The cost of making and Ebaying a 1” marble or how not to make a profit.
One Oxygen tank = twenty 1 to 1 ¼” marbles ……………..
$26.00 for a oxygen tank = $1.30 per marble……………….
$16.00 for a propane tank……………………………………
Four propane tanks to one oxygen tank……………………
80 marbles per tank of propane = $0.20 per marble……….
Ebay listing fees app. $0.50 to $0.75…
Ebay final value fees app. $0.25
Paypal fees… app. $0.45
I pay $16.00 to $18.00 for clear glass rods (not including S/H charges)
Based on the $16.00, a 1” marble cost $0.75 for glass and $1.50 for a 1 ¼” marble. (Not including wasted glass that is created in the creation of the marble)
*RAW GLASS COST
Take any per pound dollar cost, divide it by 16 to get the per ounce dollar cost, and multiply the per ounce dollar cost by the Weight of glass sphere in ounces…. then track back left to see what size/diameter in inches that would be.
IF GLASS COSTS $16 PER POUND, THE COST IS THE SAME AS THE WEIGHT
Marble size=======Weight glass sphere in ounces
1” ============0.75 oz
1 1/16” ======== 0.9 oz
1 1/8’ ==========1.1 oz’s
1 14” ==========1.5 oz’s
1 ½” ==========2.7 oz’s
1 ¾” ==========4.2 oz’s
2” ============6.3 oz’s
3” ============32.3 oz’s
If the glass is $16 a pound, and comes 16 rods in a pound you get 16 one oz. rods. What size marble do we get from that one-dollar one-ounce rod?
Looking at the column “Weight of glass sphere” and going left, we see that our one-dollar one-ounce glass rod fills a sphere of diameter between 1-1/16 to 1-1/8th inches.
Or starting with the marble size, a 1” diameter marble would have 75 cents worth of glass, a 1 ¼ “ would have $1.50 worth of glass, and a 2” would have $6.30 worth of glass.
the grand total=$3.70 and this does not cover studio rent, electricity or time etc.
* Thanks Kate for compiling the size/cost information*
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About marbles
8/27/07
fancy flowers
First these flowers are not inside out flowers. The technique I use has its basis in the lampwork flowers you find in high-end paperweights that are made at the torch and then worked into a weight via a process where clear glass is vacuumed around the flowers. In my flowers I keep adding layers with each layer marvered to stretch the petals and leaves. A one-inch marble can take up to an hour to make.
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8/23/07
The slag marble is back.
I have been making slag marbles off and on since the early nineties. I pretty much quit making them a couple years ago for several reasons with the main reason being that they were getting too hard to make, well sort of. There are several ways or techniques to produce one at the torch. One, you can take a transparent color, glass rod, and a white rod and mix the two over the torch and there it is, a slag. Method two is similar to the first method with an extra step that gives the slag a different look. The method I developed involves a lot more steps and takes much longer. One of the problems in making a slag marble is that they do not always look as good as the previous one or the next on. What really broke me was the hefting of a really heavy straw onto the camels back. What I did was to start making slags in a one-inch size, not all that easy, what it did was increase the time involved not to mention the consistency of the outcome as to how the slag looked. All in all I ended up asking $25.00 for a good one-inch marble. I have started making the slag marble again with some changes; I will not worry about exact sizes and if I get a one-inch marble that is very nice I will be adding it to a really nice hinged box with the hope of filling it up with a variety of colors. Update__ 9/22/07 Just about out of the 4mm clear rods I need to make a good slag and worse yet my supplier seems to be out too, at lest according to his web site. All this when I am just up to speed with the new variation on the technique I use to make the slags, oh well maybe I should make some notes. ___ Pricing is based on the overall look of the pattern and the size. The sizes I like are ¾” and 1” but I am concentrating on slags in the inch range. A slag that is slightly under or over an inch is considered an inch. All others start at a lower price. The pattern is important in that I like to have a good pattern that needs to cover at least three quarters of the slag with a nearly one hundred percent coverage starting at the highest price.
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Alien Seeds
In a time lost to human memory an alien species settled a portion of our planet. This settling occurred twenty million years ago and lasted at least three hundred thousand years, then the deep space probes began; it is one of these probes that returned to earth that allowed us to know of these creatures, beings not unlike our own human form. This race of beings settled a small portion of the planet and for unknown reasons did not expand. How long they stayed is not known beyond the three hundred thousand years.
Many years ago I was a researcher working for a top secret project that was studying the amazing artifacts that returned with the probe. The material in the probe consisted of writings, drawings and images relating the life of these beings here on earth. Over the coming years much of the written material was translated using a mathematical code easily found with the written works. Other than the navigational and propulsion systems to study there were thousands of seeds stored in the ship. My job was to catalog and preserve the seeds while others delved into the rest of the ships mysteries.
While I worked for the project I became too attached to the seeds I was cataloging and studying and began secreting away seeds for my own. The seeds have been well cared for and now that I am at the end of my days I have decided to disperse my collection to interested people around the world.
I have no idea what became of the project except that it has never seen the light of day, it seems to have disappeared as mysteriously as the aliens did millions of ago… I will now wait and see what happens…
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Hypnotic Shadow
The variations of the shadow marble continues with this new one, the hypnotic shadow. The basic shadow effect is still in play but is more variable and with more colors. I have been making some shadow variations in the last few weeks that have helped me to get this one down.
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The Valley of Shadow and Magic
A journal recounting my observations while exploring the valley
The valley is ringed with nearly impassable mountains and has no other borders other than bands of orc’s roaming between vast cave systems. Traveling across the mountains into the valley, though difficult and fraught with danger, one will, with luck, come into a land of beauty shrouded in a light haze, a haze only seen at the periphery of sight. The mountains at your back may have instilled a sense of fear; fear no more, you are now entering a land and place where magic rules and all inhabitants are under its sway, even you. Every person and creature has its share of magic from the Shadow dragon’s to simple villagers.
The magic originates from the deep roots of the mountain range circling the valley, a magic not seen on our side of the high peaks. All the magic in the valley is drawn into the valley by powerful forces. The only denizens of the valley that would be capable of dealing with such elemental magic would be dragons in that dragons are born of magic thus capable of using it as naturally as we use, without thinking, our heart to pump life forces to the rest of our bodies. The valleys magic is a shadow of the real power at the roots of the mountains thus making dragons the pivot point.
Long ages ago early man found their way into the valley and after many generations some of the people developed various abilities to be able to use magic some had more talent than others a talent that had to be taught but there were no teachers in the beginning.
The use of magic comes, as a birthright to dragons while the rest of the valleys denizens wielding magic have to have a talent for it. Early on there were people who knew they were different and were drawn to seek out dragons. Dragons can be dangerous and have to be approached with caution and the person pursuing contact better have honorable intentions, a shadow dragon will know. However the early adventurers who sought out a dragon did not do so at will but were drawn to the dragon by the dragon. When shadow dragons realized that there were people in the valley capable of wielding magic they decided that proper instruction in its use was necessary. They did not want people with ability inadvertently learning to wield magic without knowing what they were dealing with. Only the people with great innate talents were summoned even though they thought they were doing so on there own freewill. These talents came from villagers to people who had large land holdings. The subject beholding a dragon at close range for the first time did not so much as have lessons from the dragon but the dragon imbued the knowledge into the subject at hand. They also made certain that the student would leave with a distinct respect for the power they had been given. These students left as mages who became teachers for other adepts, dragons are not that fond of human contact so had little interest in ‘teaching’ others of less ability. After the dragons sent enough mages back into there own lands to teach they went back to there own wild ways and left the humans to there own ways. The dragons do keep an eye on the balance of the shadow magic in the valley used by those adept at magic.
I have mentioned the haze and if you have not guessed, the haze at ones periphery is the shadow magic used by peoples of the valley. This magic flows from the dragons into the valley, a magic that maintains the mysteries of the valley. Dragons are the balance between the two degrees of magic.
The haze, the visual manifestation of shadow magic, gives existence to the valley and makes the land a mysterious place to live. A villager or merchant may travel a hundred miles to a week long fair to sell goods and in the course of his travels pass through a dark dense forest with overhanging branches blocking out the sun and upon his return along the same road, find the forest less dense with plenty of light slanting down through the branches. The roads do maintain a proper bearing for the traveler, this being possible due to wizards constantly maintaining the various routes. A job fit for wizards who are the real travelers. Roads may be accurate between destinations except in one aspect; the one hundred miles may be accurate but the time to travel the road tends to change as the haze shifts and swirls just out of sight. Such changes are taken in stride by seasoned travelers.
The size of the valley is not known; the roads traveled well within the valley may be accurate between village a and town b but as one travels closer to the mountains the haze exerts greater influence as it gets closer to the powerful elemental magic contained deep within the mountains. The most accurate maps detail the center of the valley and even then if one gets off the main roads to follow trails, distances do change and only those with a gift of direction in all conditions do well. Someone who became a hunter would be such a person with a gift of direction; others would be wielders of magic.
denizens of the valley
Dragons in control of the most powerful magic;
Shadow dragons…
are born of magic and are as real as you and I in that they are flesh and bone; their life force is the elemental magic. Dragons are as intelligent as humans while retaining their wild natures; it is the wild side that makes them dangerous. Dragons are by nature solitary creatures.
Shadow queen dragon…
queen dragons eyes will glow when one looks directly into the queen’s eyes.
Shadow baby dragon…
Shadow forest dragon…
has a preference for living in forests
Wielders of shadow magic;
Shadow mages…
spend most their lives in their towers studying and compiling information gathered by wizards. Talented boys are trained in calligraphy and bookbinding then sent off to mages who are in needing people to create books containing the compiled information.
Shadow wizards…
travel and explore the valley gathering information plus they are renowned for there story telling
Shadow forest wizard…
a preference for wandering the vast forests in the valley
Shadow seer…
has abilities to find recently lost items, apply remedies for common ailments for livestock and villagers alike and for weather forecasts.
Shadow blind seer…
no pupil; interpreter of dreams
Shadow merchants…
travel the valley offering their wares or services to anyone with enough gold, silver or some other goods to barter. A merchant has a colorful shadowy cloak as a symbol of there trade. They generally have minor talents in the art of magic such as sharpening knives so that the edge last longer.
Shadow orc chieftain…
wields enough magic to keep his tribe in line
Wizards apprentice…
adepts who study under a wizard’s tutelage.
Artifacts;
Night stone…
showing the phases of the moon as seen from the valley
Moon glow stone…
a handy item to have when a little light is needed
Lighthouse lens…
lights the way for sailors and is used by captains to look into the near future while sailing across the great lakes in the valley.
Shadow evil eye…
White or milky white iris with tapering red toward the back of the eye used as a protection to ward off possible bad effects of magic.
Other items;
Towers…
serving a duel purpose as watchtowers and a place where a wizard maintains a home when not on the road. You will generally find a wizards apprentice on duty.
Shadow towers…
are few and far apart. A mage spends most his time living in these spectacular towers studying information gathered by wizards.
Magic mushrooms…
a delicacy that grows in the forest and is hard to find but if you are brave enough…a wizards apprentice is generally the one designated to search them out. Thought to be good for ones health and general well being. So far there are only two types I know of.
People of the valley;
Villagers…
there are other people such as town folk, landed gentry and those who are up to no good. Villagers are noted most often because they are closest to the land and tend to be the ones with the best chance to possess the raw ability to wield magic. I have mentioned that all the people have their share of magic but that does not mean that they can overtly use it.
A note here may be helpful;
the valley people using magic have attached shadow to their designation even though the shadow magic comes from shadow dragons; seers, wizards and mages, and others add shadow to their title as if magic was there birthright, even orc chieftains who have very little ability with magic add the ‘shadow’ designation. Exceptions are the apprentices to wizards.
Many years ago I was a researcher working for a top secret project that was studying the amazing artifacts that returned with the probe. The material in the probe consisted of writings, drawings and images relating the life of these beings here on earth. Over the coming years much of the written material was translated using a mathematical code easily found with the written works. Other than the navigational and propulsion systems to study there were thousands of seeds stored in the ship. My job was to catalog and preserve the seeds while others delved into the rest of the ships mysteries.
While I worked for the project I became too attached to the seeds I was cataloging and studying and began secreting away seeds for my own. The seeds have been well cared for and now that I am at the end of my days I have decided to disperse my collection to interested people around the world.
I have no idea what became of the project except that it has never seen the light of day, it seems to have disappeared as mysteriously as the aliens did millions of ago… I will now wait and see what happens…
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Hypnotic Shadow
The variations of the shadow marble continues with this new one, the hypnotic shadow. The basic shadow effect is still in play but is more variable and with more colors. I have been making some shadow variations in the last few weeks that have helped me to get this one down.
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The Valley of Shadow and Magic
A journal recounting my observations while exploring the valley
The valley is ringed with nearly impassable mountains and has no other borders other than bands of orc’s roaming between vast cave systems. Traveling across the mountains into the valley, though difficult and fraught with danger, one will, with luck, come into a land of beauty shrouded in a light haze, a haze only seen at the periphery of sight. The mountains at your back may have instilled a sense of fear; fear no more, you are now entering a land and place where magic rules and all inhabitants are under its sway, even you. Every person and creature has its share of magic from the Shadow dragon’s to simple villagers.
The magic originates from the deep roots of the mountain range circling the valley, a magic not seen on our side of the high peaks. All the magic in the valley is drawn into the valley by powerful forces. The only denizens of the valley that would be capable of dealing with such elemental magic would be dragons in that dragons are born of magic thus capable of using it as naturally as we use, without thinking, our heart to pump life forces to the rest of our bodies. The valleys magic is a shadow of the real power at the roots of the mountains thus making dragons the pivot point.
Long ages ago early man found their way into the valley and after many generations some of the people developed various abilities to be able to use magic some had more talent than others a talent that had to be taught but there were no teachers in the beginning.
The use of magic comes, as a birthright to dragons while the rest of the valleys denizens wielding magic have to have a talent for it. Early on there were people who knew they were different and were drawn to seek out dragons. Dragons can be dangerous and have to be approached with caution and the person pursuing contact better have honorable intentions, a shadow dragon will know. However the early adventurers who sought out a dragon did not do so at will but were drawn to the dragon by the dragon. When shadow dragons realized that there were people in the valley capable of wielding magic they decided that proper instruction in its use was necessary. They did not want people with ability inadvertently learning to wield magic without knowing what they were dealing with. Only the people with great innate talents were summoned even though they thought they were doing so on there own freewill. These talents came from villagers to people who had large land holdings. The subject beholding a dragon at close range for the first time did not so much as have lessons from the dragon but the dragon imbued the knowledge into the subject at hand. They also made certain that the student would leave with a distinct respect for the power they had been given. These students left as mages who became teachers for other adepts, dragons are not that fond of human contact so had little interest in ‘teaching’ others of less ability. After the dragons sent enough mages back into there own lands to teach they went back to there own wild ways and left the humans to there own ways. The dragons do keep an eye on the balance of the shadow magic in the valley used by those adept at magic.
I have mentioned the haze and if you have not guessed, the haze at ones periphery is the shadow magic used by peoples of the valley. This magic flows from the dragons into the valley, a magic that maintains the mysteries of the valley. Dragons are the balance between the two degrees of magic.
The haze, the visual manifestation of shadow magic, gives existence to the valley and makes the land a mysterious place to live. A villager or merchant may travel a hundred miles to a week long fair to sell goods and in the course of his travels pass through a dark dense forest with overhanging branches blocking out the sun and upon his return along the same road, find the forest less dense with plenty of light slanting down through the branches. The roads do maintain a proper bearing for the traveler, this being possible due to wizards constantly maintaining the various routes. A job fit for wizards who are the real travelers. Roads may be accurate between destinations except in one aspect; the one hundred miles may be accurate but the time to travel the road tends to change as the haze shifts and swirls just out of sight. Such changes are taken in stride by seasoned travelers.
The size of the valley is not known; the roads traveled well within the valley may be accurate between village a and town b but as one travels closer to the mountains the haze exerts greater influence as it gets closer to the powerful elemental magic contained deep within the mountains. The most accurate maps detail the center of the valley and even then if one gets off the main roads to follow trails, distances do change and only those with a gift of direction in all conditions do well. Someone who became a hunter would be such a person with a gift of direction; others would be wielders of magic.
denizens of the valley
Dragons in control of the most powerful magic;
Shadow dragons…
are born of magic and are as real as you and I in that they are flesh and bone; their life force is the elemental magic. Dragons are as intelligent as humans while retaining their wild natures; it is the wild side that makes them dangerous. Dragons are by nature solitary creatures.
Shadow queen dragon…
queen dragons eyes will glow when one looks directly into the queen’s eyes.
Shadow baby dragon…
Shadow forest dragon…
has a preference for living in forests
Wielders of shadow magic;
Shadow mages…
spend most their lives in their towers studying and compiling information gathered by wizards. Talented boys are trained in calligraphy and bookbinding then sent off to mages who are in needing people to create books containing the compiled information.
Shadow wizards…
travel and explore the valley gathering information plus they are renowned for there story telling
Shadow forest wizard…
a preference for wandering the vast forests in the valley
Shadow seer…
has abilities to find recently lost items, apply remedies for common ailments for livestock and villagers alike and for weather forecasts.
Shadow blind seer…
no pupil; interpreter of dreams
Shadow merchants…
travel the valley offering their wares or services to anyone with enough gold, silver or some other goods to barter. A merchant has a colorful shadowy cloak as a symbol of there trade. They generally have minor talents in the art of magic such as sharpening knives so that the edge last longer.
Shadow orc chieftain…
wields enough magic to keep his tribe in line
Wizards apprentice…
adepts who study under a wizard’s tutelage.
Artifacts;
Night stone…
showing the phases of the moon as seen from the valley
Moon glow stone…
a handy item to have when a little light is needed
Lighthouse lens…
lights the way for sailors and is used by captains to look into the near future while sailing across the great lakes in the valley.
Shadow evil eye…
White or milky white iris with tapering red toward the back of the eye used as a protection to ward off possible bad effects of magic.
Other items;
Towers…
serving a duel purpose as watchtowers and a place where a wizard maintains a home when not on the road. You will generally find a wizards apprentice on duty.
Shadow towers…
are few and far apart. A mage spends most his time living in these spectacular towers studying information gathered by wizards.
Magic mushrooms…
a delicacy that grows in the forest and is hard to find but if you are brave enough…a wizards apprentice is generally the one designated to search them out. Thought to be good for ones health and general well being. So far there are only two types I know of.
People of the valley;
Villagers…
there are other people such as town folk, landed gentry and those who are up to no good. Villagers are noted most often because they are closest to the land and tend to be the ones with the best chance to possess the raw ability to wield magic. I have mentioned that all the people have their share of magic but that does not mean that they can overtly use it.
A note here may be helpful;
the valley people using magic have attached shadow to their designation even though the shadow magic comes from shadow dragons; seers, wizards and mages, and others add shadow to their title as if magic was there birthright, even orc chieftains who have very little ability with magic add the ‘shadow’ designation. Exceptions are the apprentices to wizards.
Shadow mages…
spend most their lives in their towers studying and compiling information gathered by wizards. Talented boys are trained in calligraphy and bookbinding then sent off to mages who are in needing people to create books containing the compiled information.
Shadow wizards…
travel and explore the valley gathering information plus they are renowned for there story telling
Shadow forest wizard…
a preference for wandering the vast forests in the valley
Shadow seer…
has abilities to find recently lost items, apply remedies for common ailments for livestock and villagers alike and for weather forecasts.
Shadow blind seer…
no pupil; interpreter of dreams
Shadow merchants…
travel the valley offering their wares or services to anyone with enough gold, silver or some other goods to barter. A merchant has a colorful shadowy cloak as a symbol of there trade. They generally have minor talents in the art of magic such as sharpening knives so that the edge last longer.
Shadow orc chieftain…
wields enough magic to keep his tribe in line
Wizards apprentice…
adepts who study under a wizard’s tutelage.
Artifacts;
Night stone…
showing the phases of the moon as seen from the valley
Moon glow stone…
a handy item to have when a little light is needed
Lighthouse lens…
lights the way for sailors and is used by captains to look into the near future while sailing across the great lakes in the valley.
Shadow evil eye…
White or milky white iris with tapering red toward the back of the eye used as a protection to ward off possible bad effects of magic.
Other items;
Towers…
serving a duel purpose as watchtowers and a place where a wizard maintains a home when not on the road. You will generally find a wizards apprentice on duty.
Shadow towers…
are few and far apart. A mage spends most his time living in these spectacular towers studying information gathered by wizards.
Magic mushrooms…
a delicacy that grows in the forest and is hard to find but if you are brave enough…a wizards apprentice is generally the one designated to search them out. Thought to be good for ones health and general well being. So far there are only two types I know of.
People of the valley;
Villagers…
there are other people such as town folk, landed gentry and those who are up to no good. Villagers are noted most often because they are closest to the land and tend to be the ones with the best chance to possess the raw ability to wield magic. I have mentioned that all the people have their share of magic but that does not mean that they can overtly use it.
A note here may be helpful;
the valley people using magic have attached shadow to their designation even though the shadow magic comes from shadow dragons; seers, wizards and mages, and others add shadow to their title as if magic was there birthright, even orc chieftains who have very little ability with magic add the ‘shadow’ designation. Exceptions are the apprentices to wizards.
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PAPERWEIGHT STUDIO BUTTONS
My button work can be seen in 'Antique & Collectible Buttons' volume II by Debra J. Wisniewski.
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signature cane history.
1995 - E cane
1996 - E6, E 96, and ME 96 canes
1997 - ME 97 cane
1998 - ME 98 cane
1999 - ME 99 cane
2000 - ME Y2K and ME 2000 canes
2001 - ME 01
2002 - ME 02
2003 - ME 03
2004 - ME 04
2005 - ME 05 and the last two weeks of December M 05 canes
2006 - M 06
2007 - started with an underlined M until mid May then tried an underlined E for about 4 marbles and then switched to a brown E for about three weeks until I received just enough black and white glass to make a good signature cane for the rest of the year and it is a E 07.
2008 - E 08
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The history of the Shadow dragon marble.
A great marble that had its beginnings in 1994/5 with my working out a cool twisted gold foil marble and then the development of the shadow marble, over the years I figured out that I could combine the two techniques to make a number of very interesting marbles and the most complex one is the Shadow Dragons eye. The Shadow part of the Dragons eye marble has thin ribbons of white with black or some other color showing through or between the white ribbons. When the marble is turned a shimmering effect is set in motion. The core of the marble is a swirling of gold or silver foil flakes.
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The Shadow marble, an attempt at describing it.
The shadow technique produces one of the most fun contemporary marbles on the market, while the shadow marble is not like a fiber optic marble, I have had people ask me if it was one. They think this, due to the way it reacts when twisted.
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Cobra
The cobra marble has a long history, first as a variation of a machine made marble called a guinea. The cobra, I think named later on by marble collectors, is a folded version of the guinea. Early on I developed a version of the guinea and also made a few cobra marbles. The cobra marbles I make now are stylized versions of the cobras I used to make.
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a bio...
"As a child Mike had no sense of talent; although he did have a pencil and paper to copy images from books with. In his teens, the desire to create art grew to include skipping high school to hang in and among the art book stacks at the public library. Mike occupied his time filling sketchbooks with drawings of his favorite subject, female nudes, irritating his art teacher. Now and then he would produce a male nude, just to prove he could. This was when Mike went commercial, trying and failing to sell his gag cartoons to the top magazines of the day, like Playboy. Photography was a main interest from his mid-teens that led to enrolment in a two-year photography program at the Hawkeye Institute of Technology and ended with Mike's flunking out after the first year. Mike found his footing again while working in a smelly photo processing plant. The boss's brother was into lost wax casting. With the help of a book on lost wax casting, Mike was off and running, creating gold and silver rings for friends and neighbors. The end of this art form came for Mike when gold went from $32.00 an ounce to $900.00 an ounce. Long lonely years came and went with Mike drawing and making the occasional photograph. Then in 1994 Mike met Sandy, a stained glass artist and teacher. In her quest for a degree in art, Sandy had taken a lampwork bead-making course. It took her five minutes to describe all she knew about the subject, and Mike was off and running again. His long-time interest in antique marbles and new interest in lampworking led to his first marble after a year of making broken, cracked, and ugly beads. In developing his present abilities as a lampwork artist, he studied four videos and paid some attention to demonstrations given by a few lampworker’s. The rest of his skill and knowledge came through his own experience at the torch and being inspired by ideas he brought to life in glass. To date, his work has appeared in a contemporary marble book, a studio button book, and the Dallas morning news. Mike is now well known in Independence, Iowa as the marble man."
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