This is terrible

[gazstove]

http://www.puffnpassglass.com/stoneforsale.html

It appears whoever stone glassworks is, they are making shoddy knock-offs of sling and salt glass. This is an outrage.:mad:

http://i48.tinypic.com/fu4dw7.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/2eceoly.jpg

[BigManNew]

I don't know if this is them or not but lots of people make work Similar to Salts work. Not a bad thing, it is nice to see what other peoples takes are on other peoples art styles.

[con-ed]

yea come on, sling and salt both definitely aren't the only artist these days with those styles. always great to see more people banging out some cool looking glass.

[Basack]

LOL to the op you sir are not very bright... Sgw is a respected member of the community not to mention an AWESOME glasblower. Just because hes showing off his skills a little doesnt mean hes making knock offs... the sling style sherly, ive never seen in production b4... But the sculpting ( salt style) is dont by alot of artist. This thread = fail

[fornoone]

why are so many people completely ignorant?

op - many artists use blasting to etch patterns into glass, it's not like Sling is the only person allowed to do it. Also, the same thing with the sculpting.

[kmartel]

i would not call that a shoddy knockoff. I would buy the samuri pipe. Ninja cheechin

[toalex]

They are not knockoffs and they are far from shoddy!

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/311/22568363.png

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4562/37605230.jpg

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/5876/27672781.jpg

[ToRo Head]

i saw this thread i was like what the hell???? bro do u know how many artist out their use those styles. salt sling r just known to be the best at it thats all. those slides look nothing like salts work really!

[hearmeroor]

First of all I can't believe threads like this are being made nowadays, SGW is the FUCKING SHIT just for the record, and second...

I think it's funny how hypocritical some people are on this site. I'm not mentioning any names specifically, but people will bitch about itza being knockoff to toro, but then when someone else comes on the site and says another blower is copying/using other blowers styles your answer to that is many artists use these methods or styles. So what is okay and what isn't? Just curious because you're contradicting yourself/ves.

[GratefulPhish]

lol at thread

[jBUCKS420]

Damn I HAD to laugh when I read this!

[mikeys]

wow. just wow. :\

[imx]

/thread please?

OP, your a clown bro. leave the glass game while you're still kinda ahead. Preston's work is FAR from shoddy, and he isnt copying ayone, theres COUNTLES blowers who use sculpting.. UKIAH, AKM, SALT, SGW, Vorhees, etc. Preston has created quite a few awesome innovations.. the waffle, gridded inline (i believe he started).. he's working on an all glass swingable nail set for oil.. Preston is far from a copycat dude.. Get your research up before you start comin on here making idiot accusatoins like that. Maybe you should head over to GC with the rest of the ignorant people. Shame on you. :pig:

[Basack]

Looks like we scared him off. Good work guys. :)

[DaNK]

Mods close this gay ass thread!

[hashcat]

just to confirm how retardo the OP is....your an idiot!!!

might as well go slap down d-wreck....blue.....lots of people blasting and sculpting. those slides have a totally different "skin" to them than salts (in my eyes...making them quite unique)

[themasochist]

Don't feed the trolls guys

[EatYourEye]

thread started negative but that link is gonna lead to something positive for me a new sgw sherlock ! dope!

[Durka_Durka]

threads like these are what give FMB a bad name. Ignorant posters who know nothing about the glass they are claiming to be experts on.

Try to hide the fact that you are a complete newb!

[GratefulPhish]

IMO the worse part was that everyone made the guy feel super bad in the end i bet


but... i did lol at the thread

[sm0ke]

we all love sgw :)

[hedeez]

they have eyes and texture...that does not make them a "salt ripoff" Lets see you do even what SGW did op... Are you not familiar with Scire also? its EXACTLY the same thing as salt, he even apprenticed under him..

SGW is the mo'fuckin samurai