I have been wanting to play with these weld bends and bending my handwriting. There is an old neon tradition of "block out tubing" that was actually spliced in so that there would be no paint to chip.

I like the idea of using darker colors as the "block out" glass for all the connections. Its certainly an extra challenge, but I am liking the look.

I am gonna be bending neon at Brooklyn Glass's Hot Glass Cold Beer on Saturday. I get most of my neon tubing from there (they import from Italy) and I think this would be nice in a nice warm white and non coated cobalt blue. It took me 1, 3/4 hours to make "CHOOSE" out of scraps I had (whoops, got the whites mixed up 😊 )

My mom used to preach this to me when I was in high school. It changed my life... but I still sometimes feel like I can delude myself into feeling happy about a crappy situation.

https://brooklynglass.com/index.php/hot-glass-cold-beer-2/

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