THE PIPELINE

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Welcome to the homepage for The Pipeline. We're a special little glassworks studio in Oregon, Illinois. We offer a variety of hand blown glass pieces, crafted by our in-house artists-- Heavy, Robin Hood & Gypsy.Come on out and watch us while we work, as our shop offers a unique experience for our guests-- They get to watch firsthand how it's done, and maybe even take away the experience of making a little something themselves!! Check us out-- I think you'll like what you see!
Got a question?? Feel free to contact us and ask away! (WE DIG IT!)
NOW A LITTLE ABOUT OURSELVES--
Heavy started glass working when he was 8. He's been at it for 32 years now total, and been a full time pipe maker since 2002.
"I specialize in making some of the phatest color changing pipes around. I can make from mild to the wild and every thing in the middle. I started doing flat glass work with my dad at the age of 8 and did way to many sun catchers. I moved to doing windows @ about 12 yrs old. I took some time off, found girls and then in my early 20's, I started working for a wholesale shop that sold everything and anything relating to/with glass work. That's when I started playing with hot glass. At first, it was fuseing glass in the kiln. Then in 1995, I got on the torch for the first time, learned to make beads and than it was on. About 1997 got divorced and in 1998, I met my new wife, Barbie. In the fall of 2000 we started selling gel candles and opened our first store "Hippie Lights", and thats when I got the glass pipe itch. I took a short one with Chris C and then it was on. Almost all self tought for a few years till I closed down Hippie Lights to open Fusion Glass Works and thats where the hard core learning came in to play. That is what has made me the glass blower I am today."
Heavy is our supervising artist and prides himself on his wicked ass HAND SPOONS(PIPES) & SINGLE & DOUBLE BUBBLERS,SHERLOCKS & HAMMERS just to name a few.
Robin Hood is our WIG-WAG specialist of the bunch. He likes his pieces on the more exoctic side and offers a variety of PIPES and WATERPIPES some featuring tribal wig wag shit you ain't seen around here!
Last, but certainly not least, is our hot as glass, new apprentice, Gypsy..... My back story is simple-- I had always wanted to blow glass. I met Heavy, Heavy liked my bodacious ta-ta's and the rest is history. I'm not specializing STEAMROLLERS with outside work. I/m hoping to be one of THE BEST glassblowers in the region, if not the states...maybe even the WORLD!! ( Okay, maybe world domination is a stretch.)

Come on down and see us working our magic--and me fucking up! It's worth the little trip.

Do YOU want to learn how to do it?? Just contact us!
EMAIL Jeff a.k.a. HEAVY [email protected]
EMAIL Nick a.k.a. ROBIN HOOD
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EMAIL Kimberly a.k.a. GYPSY [email protected]
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