FrankRizzo
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Thanks D Rock and rkrone. I loved collecting glass, its such a cool art form that doesn't get the respect it should some times. It was sad, I hadn't even used some of those when they where taken from me. Oh well...
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did you get busted or something? what happened to them all?
FrankRizzo
Listen to me jerky
The short version
The short version
Well its a really long story, but the short version goes like this:
I put them all into storage at a location that I felt would be the last place piggers would ever show up. My mothers house. She was cool with it since at the time they where all clean and in cases. I stuck them in the back of a storage closet under a bunch of stuff.
I moved out west, didn't want to bring them with me on the road for many reasons. Two years later there was an "event" at the house involving other people. There where claims of a gun or something and just to be safe my mom let the police go through the house. She had forgotten what was in one of the closets and BOOM. By the time she realized it was too late. It wasn't really her fault.
While they where all clean the ****ing piggers said they smelled like they had been used for "illegal activity." I was 2500+ miles away and there wasn't much I could do. I called and called and called the jack*ss running the show and asked for some reasoning why they where taken. Nothing for a while. Then he said they tested positive for mj. Asked for test results, nothing. Called and called and called more asking for the proof and then one day I got a reply asking to stop calling, they had all been destroyed. FU*KERS! I was furious to say the least. I think the fact that I couldn't just walk in and talk to them was part of it. I wanted to slit the bastards throat.
Oh well, learned a good lesson. When you think things are safe, they aren't. The whole thing had nothing to do with drugs in anyway and I bet the cops where pumped when they found the stash. I just wish I didn't have to loose over five grand in glass to learn the lesson. But what are you gonna do?
FRizzo
The short version
Well its a really long story, but the short version goes like this:
I put them all into storage at a location that I felt would be the last place piggers would ever show up. My mothers house. She was cool with it since at the time they where all clean and in cases. I stuck them in the back of a storage closet under a bunch of stuff.
I moved out west, didn't want to bring them with me on the road for many reasons. Two years later there was an "event" at the house involving other people. There where claims of a gun or something and just to be safe my mom let the police go through the house. She had forgotten what was in one of the closets and BOOM. By the time she realized it was too late. It wasn't really her fault.
While they where all clean the ****ing piggers said they smelled like they had been used for "illegal activity." I was 2500+ miles away and there wasn't much I could do. I called and called and called the jack*ss running the show and asked for some reasoning why they where taken. Nothing for a while. Then he said they tested positive for mj. Asked for test results, nothing. Called and called and called more asking for the proof and then one day I got a reply asking to stop calling, they had all been destroyed. FU*KERS! I was furious to say the least. I think the fact that I couldn't just walk in and talk to them was part of it. I wanted to slit the bastards throat.
Oh well, learned a good lesson. When you think things are safe, they aren't. The whole thing had nothing to do with drugs in anyway and I bet the cops where pumped when they found the stash. I just wish I didn't have to loose over five grand in glass to learn the lesson. But what are you gonna do?
FRizzo
lol thats why i dont spend more than 30 or so on a piece, and usually only have one at a time!
sorry to hear about it though. you should sue or something. thats a lot of property to be destroyed....esp with no test results...
sorry to hear about it though. you should sue or something. thats a lot of property to be destroyed....esp with no test results...
Just the basics
Just the basics
Whoa, now that's a collection... Just an old converted bubble bong and glass pipe here...lotsa miles on both.
Peace
Just the basics
Whoa, now that's a collection... Just an old converted bubble bong and glass pipe here...lotsa miles on both.
Peace
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Low dollar vape
Low dollar vape
This unit is a die hard. And it will sit you on yer ever lovin ass! Peace
Low dollar vape
This unit is a die hard. And it will sit you on yer ever lovin ass! Peace
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Crazy Composer said:You know... Some of these pictures are likely to end up in the next issue of Flower Pix News.
I see a few already that I'm interested in! Keep em coming!
And remember, the quality of the composition is just as important as the quality of the piece... At FPN, we don't **** around.
An original and pretty rare Bob Snodgrass glass "Dragon Pipe" ...that was made----> in the parking lot down in Oaksterdam Coliseum on a 7 day camp-out for the Grateful Dead back in Jan 1985 .
In front of the big green Bus in a vendor's aisle at night in the magical milieu
of the Dead parking lot almost 1/4 of a century ago ....
Puff the Dragon , meets Bubba k
(note smile on Puff's face ;o)
* Bob was working on two pipes during that show , with the Bus broken down and money scarce and i had fallen in love with this little baby watching him make it the first night . Noted him grinding up pennies and dipping the hot molten glass rod into the copper filings which he applied to "Puff's" mouth to form the red colored whiskers . The beautiful blue/white opalescent swirlings were done by dipping molten glass onto silver shavings and working them into the piece ...but there was an added surprise which he showed me on Puff's belly when turned upright . Then you would see the wild eyes of a mad wizard holding to red stars in each hand that would appear the darker the glass got thru smokin' ....
(see pic below )
Amazing for that time ....there he worked on vendor row right in the parking lot , torch in hand .What a time that was , so many beautiful craftsman and spirit & magic in the air ....if could only turn back the clock , what times they were
* Somewhere near the 3rd night of that 7 day run went over to his stand & his wife was pretty upset . With big green Bus broken down and no money she told me that Bob had dropped and broken one of the two pipes he was working on during that show . To say that i was elated when Bob agreed to accept a trade of some windchimes i was making and some cash for this little dragon that survived those shows , was an understatement .
And the surprise "Wild Wizard's " eyes and hands holding the red star marbles on Puff's belly that Bob worked into the piece using fine silver shavings ...this is a real collector piece by an american craftsman & icon in the Glass pipe making world ...over 22yrs old .
Wild Eye'd Wizard
(done smoked himself into the "zone" !)
My how time flys ....my wire~Wizard friend "Twister" mentioned that Snodgrass had gotten his start working in a marble factory originally . He made the marbles the wizard is holding in this piece too . I want to really go back there to that very night & live it all over again ...if i only could!
* Some of "Twister's" wire work , also made during those shows ...these wonderfull copper wire sculptures usually enclosing some crystal or marbles would just flow off his hands . Totally whimsical nd built to last too , these were unique craftsman of that time gone by . Twister was as good with wire as Bob Snodgrass was with glass .
And wouldn;t ya know ...Twister got his start working as a night watchman in a wire factory ! Lots of time during the night and lots of wire laying around ....he taught many the art of wire wrapping back then famous for his Butterflys . Fun to watch him work and a good friend i lost track off since :
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Man, Terranterran2 said:An original and pretty rare Bob Snodgrass glass "Dragon Pipe" ...that was made----> in the parking lot down in Oaksterdam Coliseum on a 7 day camp-out for the Grateful Dead back in Jan 1985 .
In front of the big green Bus in a vendor's aisle at night in the magical milieu
of the Dead parking lot almost 1/4 of a century ago ....
Puff the Dragon , meets Bubba k
(note smile on Puff's face ;o)
* Bob was working on two pipes during that show , with the Bus broken down and money scarce and i had fallen in love with this little baby watching him make it the first night . Noted him grinding up pennies and dipping the hot molten glass rod into the copper filings which he applied to "Puff's" mouth to form the red colored whiskers . The beautiful blue/white opalescent swirlings were done by dipping molten glass onto silver shavings and working them into the piece ...but there was an added surprise which he showed me on Puff's belly when turned upright . Then you would see the wild eyes of a mad wizard holding to red stars in each hand that would appear the darker the glass got thru smokin' ....
(see pic below )
Amazing for that time ....there he worked on vendor row right in the parking lot , torch in hand .What a time that was , so many beautiful craftsman and spirit & magic in the air ....if could only turn back the clock , what times they were
* Somewhere near the 3rd night of that 7 day run went over to his stand & his wife was pretty upset . With big green Bus broken down and no money she told me that Bob had dropped and broken one of the two pipes he was working on during that show . To say that i was elated when Bob agreed to accept a trade of some windchimes i was making and some cash for this little dragon that survived those shows , was an understatement .
And the surprise "Wild Wizard's " eyes and hands holding the red star marbles on Puff's belly that Bob worked into the piece using fine silver shavings ...this is a real collector piece by an american craftsman & icon in the Glass pipe making world ...over 22yrs old .
Wild Eye'd Wizard
(done smoked himself into the "zone" !)
My how time flys ....my wire~Wizard friend "Twister" mentioned that Snodgrass had gotten his start working in a marble factory originally . He made the marbles the wizard is holding in this piece too . I want to really go back there to that very night & live it all over again ...if i only could!
* Some of "Twister's" wire work , also made during those shows ...these wonderfull copper wire sculptures usually enclosing some crystal or marbles would just flow off his hands . Totally whimsical nd built to last too , these were unique craftsman of that time gone by . Twister was as good with wire as Bob Snodgrass was with glass .
And wouldn;t ya know ...Twister got his start working as a night watchman in a wire factory ! Lots of time during the night and lots of wire laying around ....he taught many the art of wire wrapping back then famous for his Butterflys . Fun to watch him work and a good friend i lost track off since :
What nice glass and what cool stuff
Here goes my bubbler my best friend made for me a few years back. It is over eight inches tall and full dichro with a fourplex. Hits fatter than a bong.
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Nice...Real nice
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illadelph 5mm green lable
Irishslappop
Ganja struetu?
dont tell me those are ALL yours....Raque said:1 or 2
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