 #1 - John Kobuki and Josh Sable |
 Sable did this half and finished the marble w/ pinwheeling around the equator |
 Kobuki did this half |
 This is Josh's signature flower retti |
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 #2 - Mike Gong and Bradley Tubbs |
 Brad did this half, his astounding gold and silver fuming work |
 Mike did this half, his UFO Crash Landing series |
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 #3 - Ken Leslie and Harry Bessett |
 Ken painted the scene and Harry worked the glass |
 Harry and Wendy call this one 'Something Happened' - I call it 'The Earthquake Marble' in honor of my SoCal location |
 While attempting to finish the marble, the whole core cracked. Instead of scrapping it, Harry put the pieces back together. |
 The marble was finished and Humpty Dumpty lives! (Top View) |
 #4 - John Kobuki and Josh Sable |
 Slipper Orchid by John; ratty, backside and finishing by Josh |
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 #5 - John Kobuki and Josh Sable |
 Slipper Orchid by John; fuming, backside and finishing by Josh |
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 #6 - John Kobuki and Josh Sable |
 Jellyfish by John; ratty and finishing by Josh |
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 #7 - Josh Sable and Gateson Recko |
 Reticello by Josh and Terra Incognito by Gateson |
 Josh put the marble together and added his milli and some opals around the equator |
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 #8 - Yoshio Omura and Josh Sable |
 Josh did the ratty of course, and Yoshio did the fumed wigwag. |
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 I love this shot, with the pinwheels magnified and showing pink from the other side. |
 #9 - Yoshinori Kondo and Josh Sable |
 Yoshi did the flower with opal, and Josh did the pinwheeling with his famous millie chips. |
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 There's also a white ratty by Josh snuck in behind Yoshi's flower there, oooh yeaaah! |
 #10 - Josh Simpson and Joyce Roessler |
 Josh did the planet of course, and then Joyce added the sweet jellyfish. |
 Sometimes it's hard to know whether a Simpson planet is actually a planet, or really a reef. |
 Top down view of the jellies over the planet. |
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 #11 - Josh Sable and Yoshinori Kondo |
 Yoshi did the space capsule side in the first pic, Josh did the white ratty. |
 Yoshi's dot work on this one is crazy sweet! |
 An unusual ratty for Josh, with the dark ruby red down inside the ratty, a cool touch. |
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 #12 - Josh Sable and Yoshinori Kondo |
 Another one created by Josh, featuring more of his wonderful pinwheeling and milli |
 This time a rare flower style inclusion from Yoshi was used, and it's UV! |
 King of the thunderbolt milli! |
 Awesome UV reaction under the black light, Yoshi nailed it. |
 #13 - Josh Simpson, Ken Leslie and Harry Besett |
 The 'Screaming Planet Swallower' |
 Josh Simpson made the large 'planet' core, Ken Leslie then used glass paint to paint the planet swallowing face. |
 Harry Besett encased the marble with clear and finished it. |
 Bottom of the 3 3/4" marble. |
 #14 - Josh Sable and John Kobuki |
 This is John's half, the inside-out tech he used to use frequently in his marbles early on. |
 Josh did the thunderbolt half and then finished it with the equatorial design. |
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 #15 - Wendy Bessett and Josh Simpson |
 Back in the mid 2000's, Wendy and Josh did a small series of these collabs together, this one with an inner viewing keyhole. |
 Josh gave Wendy his cores, which Harry B would clear dip, then Wendy would paint, then one final dip. |
 Josh's core for this one is AWESOME, with a huge air trap and a blue inner core. |
 Wendy painted the island and sky so that the persepctive is that Josh's section is below the surface of land and ocean! |
 #16 - John Kobuki, Bob Snodgrass, Yoshinori Kondo and Josh Sable |
 Snoddy skull |
 Kobuki added the skull to his flower |
 Sable pulled it all together with his millies and pinwheeling, just under 2" |
 Yoshi dot pattern |
 #17 - Josh Sable and Dan Benway |
 Dan's Skyline 2 murrine w/ Alien UFO |
 Only 3 of these collabs exist |
 Backside with UV pulled dots, tied together w/ pinwheel equator |
 UV pincushion all lit up! |
 #18 - Daisuke Saito and Rose Roads |
 Daisuke pulled this one together, with his amazing fumed implosion and opal on his side. |
 Beautiful pattern on the Rose Roads half! |
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 I love how you can see the backside of the pattern through the fuming. |
 #19 - Yoshinori Kondo and Rose Roads |
 Yoshi Cupped Opal |
 Rose Ratty |
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 #20 - Nate Miers and Ben Burton |
 Ben did the inside....sweet opal! |
 Nate put one of his wig wag windows on it.... |
 ...and did the outside! |
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 #21 - John Kobuki, Yoshinori Kondo and Josh Sable |
 Kobuki did the amazing pink rose. |
 Only a couple of these tri-collabs exist! |
 Yoshi's usual incredible dot work! |
 Josh brought this marble together, joining the two halves with his signature millie pinwheeling. |
 #22 - Eusheen Goines and Yoshinori Kondo |
 Eush side fillacello |
 Yoshi side, with the rare experimental green |
 Fuming is around the middle open area. |
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 #23 - Mike Gong and Yoshinori Kondo |
 Yoshi side, their first Acid Eater collab! |
 Mike pulled this one together, with his famous 'Acid Eater' on his side. |
 Very unique Yoshi half on this one, with the rare experimental green, love it! |
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 #24 - John Kobuki, Rose Roads and Josh Sable - "The East Meets West Project" |
 "The East Meets West Project" was something I put together to bring Junichi Kojima together with the best American artists. |
 Jun (Rose Roads) did an amazing job with the pattern in this one! |
 Kobuki's Samurai - how perfect is THAT for The Eeat Meets West?!? |
 Josh brought this marble all together to make it a tri-collab. |
 #25 - Mike Gong and Rose Roads - "The East Meets West Project" |
 This was the first time Rose Roads' work had ever been incorporated into work with American artists. |
 Another great pattern by Jun, so clean! |
 Mike killed the design on this one, SO wonderful and such a perfect match. |
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 #26 - Josh Sable and Rose Roads - "The East Meets West Project" |
 Josh did a UV retticello flower for his half of this one, so it comes to life under the black light. |
 This is my favorite blue Rose Roads pattern ever! |
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 Josh's usual killer millie pinwheeling ties it all together. |
 #27 - Travis Weber and Rose Roads - "The East Meets West Project" |
 This was a brand new design for Travis just for this marble, FANTASTIC! |
 The usual tightness by Jun. |
 You can see through Travis' pattern to the backside of the Rose Roads disc, SO awesome. |
 Nice dot work to tie it together, incredible marble. |
 #28 - Gateson Recko and Rose Roads - "The East Meets West Project" |
 This was also a new space design that Gateson unveiled for this marble, SO amazing in hand! |
 There's about a bajillion dots in the pattern, good gosh. |
 Super killer marble, spaced out to the max! |
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 #29 - Eusheen Goines and Rose Roads |
 Eush's crazy colorful fillacello!! |
 Rose Roads dotticello. |
 Eush pulled this one together, with a square opal and 3 opal spheres down inside. |
 It also has a fumed UV implosion inside that blings under the black light! |
 #30 - Yoshinori Kondo and Josh Sable |
 Most of the Sable-Kondo collabs you will see are ones where Josh finished the marble. |
 But this one is only a few where Yoshi got halves from Josh and put the marble together! |
 So amazing to have Yoshi's incredible dot work wrapped and layered all around Josh's work. |
 Stunning design and colors! |
 #31 - John Kobuki, Bob Snodgrass, Rose Roads and Josh Sable |
 Rose Roads dotticello. |
 Kobuki added a Snodgrass skull to one of his flowers. |
 Sable pulled it all together with his millies and opals. |
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 #32 - Richard Hollingshead and Rose Roads |
 Rich's side with exploded millie and fumed dots. |
 Rose Roads dotticello. |
 Rich took the Rose Roads half and put the marble together with his fantastic scales on the side. |
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 #33 - Gateson Recko and Rose Roads |
 Gateson took an amazing RR disc and made it a UFO, hovering over a Universe! |
 Several planets, an opal moon, a vortex and many other features can bee seen as you spin it. |
 The backside features a clear window which lets you see through to the backside of the RR disc! |
 Closeup of the window and RR disc, backlit. |
 #34 - Richard Carter, Marni Schnapper and Robin Moore |
 A tri-collab, with one of Robin's dot stars in the middle. |
 One of Marni's implosion opals is on the other side, and Rick's wigwags tie it all together. |
 And it glows! Robin used UV glass, and Rick used glow glass for the dots around the equator. |
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 #35 - Richard Carter and Robin Moore |
 Fantastic thunderbolt wigwag work from Rick is wrapped all around Robin's star. |
 Separate sections are brought together nicely, with some sweet sparkle glass! |
 Slyme dots, oooh yeaaah. |
 And it glows! The black light really brings Robin's UV design to life and you get the complete picture! |
 #36 - Eusheen Goines, Justin Cothren (WJC) and Nate Miers (N8) |
 Nate brought this marble together, incorporating two of the best fillacello/disc flip artists ever! |
 This colorful beauty is Eush's killer contribution. |
 Here's WJC's sacred geometry side using a lot of sweet OG Green Moss glass for the pattern. |
 Nate's famous space scene-age brings it all together around the equator - you can see a UFO here. |
 #37 - Bo Howe and Remy Schwartz (El Hefe) |
 Remy's masterful fuming with dichro behind it highlights the main window. |
 Bo is one of the most exciting up and coming fillacello artists. Remy incorporated his disc into the backside of this one. |
 Triple fumed balloons, such awesome glass! |
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 #38 - Eusheen Goines and Beau Barrett |
 Glass master Eush brought this thrilling collab together. Beau's side here is PERRRRFECT!!! |
 Eush's implosion is incredibly deep, goes waaay down into the vortex. |
 Beau's disc was incorporated as seamlessly as it gets, with nice fuming above it. |
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 #39 - Derek White (DWreck) and Aaron Golbert (Marble Slinger) |
 An incredible marble from two of the world's most famous pipe artists. |
 DWreck's face is REALLYnicely done in this one, and fills out his half of the marble. |
 Slinger's fumed implosion is like a massive explosion, with crystals allll through the glass on his half! |
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 #40 - Mike Gong and Rose Roads |
 This is a VERY special marble to me. I won this in a sight-unseen auction to benefit the Tiemeyers after their home burned down |
 We had the RR disc for the auction and Mike agreed to make the marble. Once I won, he made this special John 3:16 Eater marble! |
 The Rose Roads disc is as astounding as ever, laid over a bed of rainbow hair. |
 Mike made the 3:16 millie special for this project, based on that crazy rainbow wig John 3:16 guy from the 70's. |
 #41 - Tomomi Handa and Rose Roads |
 One of THE ultimate collabs imaginable, the great Tomomi Handa using an RR mini-disc! |
 Tomomi's equatorial flower design envelopes the RR disc perfectly, with a gorgeous butterfly. |
 Tomomi's pattern is perfect, going with a Queen Anne's lace look that complements the RR side so well! |
 Look at those flowers, AWESOME! |
 #42 - Josh Sable, Rose Roads and Kevin O'Grady |
 Josh put this marble together at my request, a Grateful Dead marble with special Sable millie. |
 This is Kevin's 'Bertha' millie from a GD cover. Sadly, it bubbled during the encasement and checked during the process. |
 RR's Dead mini-disc features a bear head, smiley face and peace sign. |
 Bertha mini millie circle the equator with Josh's millie and pinwheeling! |
 #43 - Yoshinori Kondo, Josh Sable and Mike Gong |
 This is the only collab that came out of Mike's quake-shortened trip to Japan in March, 2011. |
 Yoshi put the marble together using a disc Mike made during the one day they had on the torch together. |
 Mike did a great job with his double fumacello, and this marble will be forever linked to the devastation that struck Japan. |
 Yoshi had an extra Sable disc that Josh had sent him so he decided to make it a tri-collab. |
 #44 - Yoshinori Kondo, Rose Roads and Daisuke Saito |
 Yoshi created this for the May 2013 TY Expo in Toronto, the greatest marble ever created to this point in time! |
 The incredible Rose Roads section, one of the best mandalas he has made. |
 Team Japan 2013! |
 The black widow spiders are just awesome, with the marble named 'Kumo-san'. |
 #45 - Kenan Tiemeyer and Yoshinori Kondo |
 For this huge masterpiece, Kenan brought a large Yoshi disc into the interior of the marble, loaded with fuming and opals. |
 Crazy sweet shot of the layer of opals. |
 Bling-blingin' fumey goodness with some great coloring around Yoshi's precision. |
 Perfect touches of dichro were added on both sides as well. AMAZING! |
 #46 - Josh Sable and Rose Roads |
 This was a marble Josh made from a batch of mini discs I gave him, and he NAILED it, so tight. |
 The Rose Roads disc is perfectly placed in there. |
 This is a version of Josh's Flower of Life that he started doing in 2013, with some twists. |
 Killer millies and pinwheeling, as usual from the master. |
 #47 - Yoshinori Kondo and John Kobuki |
 This is one of the greatest collabs we've ever seen in my opinion, wonderfully constructed by Yoshi. |
 Yoshi took a gorgeous Kobuki opal flower and perfectly centered it with 5 opals around it inside. |
 Face galore are seen in the mind-blowing dot work pattern Yoshi worked into the piece. |
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 #48 - Mike Gong and James Daschbach |
 I do believe this is my favorite Acid Eater ever! |
 James took one of Mike's Eaters, then started layering on to it with his sleaving technique. |
 James and Mike both proceeded to decorate the layers with their signature dot styles. |
 This one has to be seen in hand, the depth and tightness of it all just blows you away. |
 #49 - Richard Hollingshead and Adam Reetz |
 This is one that Rich put together, matching up the color in his cane with Adam's filla SO well! |
 Adam's fillacello rocks as usual, so nice, with that Disco Sparkle or Steel Wool (not sure which) in the middle. |
 No opals in this one. |
 Rich's usual perfect pinwheeling and dot stacking!! |
 #50 - Jack Hanshaw and Adam Reetz |
 This collab that Jack put together just sparkles and lights up a room! |
 Jack used one of Adam Reetz's cabs with 4 opals inlaid into the fillacello design, WOW. |
 Jack's reef life section is just brilliant, with a fantastic opal turned up on its side on top. |
 Some nice dot work ties it all together, so gorgeous all in all! |
 #51 - Jared DeLong and Dan Benway |
 This is an extremely beautiful collab that Jared constructed, using Dan's signature fumed design as the base. |
 There are flowers layered all over this beauty, too many to count (if you're lazy like me, heh). |
 Jared then carved some fantastic patterns into the design, giving it that water flower look, so killer! |
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 #52 - Josh Sable and Yoshinori Kondo |
 This is actually an earlier collab from 2010 that I picked up a little later. |
 Josh put this one together, using one of the coolest Yoshi sections I've seen in one oof their collabs. |
 So amazing how Yoshi did reverse directions twists so close to each other like that to give it a wavy effect for his pattern. |
 And of course Josh's signature incredible millies and pinwheeling complete it, with a couple of trillion opals. |
 #53 - Yoshinori Kondo and Mike Gong |
 I think this is the best Acid Eater collab ever created to this point in time in my opinion. Absolutely BRILLIANT!! |
 They made this in Yoshi's shop together during Mike's 2nd trip to Japan in October 2013. No quake this time! |
 The meshing of their dot stacking is so sooo killer on this one. |
 And then of course Yoshi's entire pattern with Mike's 7-hitter eater are just too much for the mind to take! |
 #54 - Nate N8 Miers, Eusheen Goines and Rose Roads |
 Nate the Great put this amazing collab together with a solar system on the south pole. |
 An amazing icy Rose Roads disc sits on top of the lens. |
 I wish the Eusheen section inside was easier to photograph, it is an amazing fumed implosion with opals. |
 N8 decorated the equator with a massive space scene, including the UFO seen here. |
 #55 - Mike Gong and Travis Weber |
 Mike brought this amazing TDub section together with one of his masterpieces. |
 This is the most beautiful opal stacking I've seen in my life to this point. It blings like nothing you've ever seen! |
 The opal in the middle is a huge 30mm wonder. The smaller 2nd opal is seen here from the side w/ fumacello between top 2 opals. |
 The blues of Travi's ringcalmo dot stack design are astounding in front of that opal! |
 #56 - Mike Gong and James Daschbach |
 This is one of the most amazing 3-dimensional collabs you'll ever see in hand. |
 Mike and James passed this beauty back and forth, each adding layers of dot stacks. |
 James created the layers with his amazing sleeving technique. |
 So tight and clean, and all of those orbital lines are AWESOME! |
 #57 - John Kobuki and Bob Snodgrass |
 I've got quite a few Kobuki/Snoddy collabs in the collection, but this is BY FAR the best! |
 John placed a perfect Samurai warrior over top of the Snoddy skull, complete with opal katana and head. |
 There are only two of these made to this point, one of my all-time favorite collabs. |
 Bonus! As if it needed one - this killer marble comes in a special box hand made by John. |
 #58 - Yoshinori Kondo and Daisuke Saito |
 This is a collab that Yoshi put together for me, a rare one between him and Daisuke. |
 He essentially took a full Daisuke fumed marble with opals and then added his dot stacking on the outside. |
 Marbles don't get more complete than this, solid goodness from the outside to the inner core. |
 Oh yeah - AND it's chock full of UV glass which Daisuke used in his marble! |
 #59 - Yoshinori Kondo, Rose Roads and Daisuke Saito |
 Team Japan 2014! |
 Once again, Yoshi took Rose Roads and Daisuke sections and worked his dot stacking magic around them! |
 The detail is exquisite, you can stare for hours. I needed the Batman dot stacking in the collection for sure. |
 Huge 30mm opal in the center, 13 opals altogether - and then BONUS, Daisuke's section is also UV! |
 #60 - Akihiro Okama and Tomomi Handa |
 Seeeeriously sweet marble here, made by Aki, with one of Tomomi's sections on the backside of a vortex. |
 This is a new style of cane vortex for Aki, and whichever side you start with, you're shocked when you flip it over. |
 There is fumed dots worked into the vortex twists as well! |
 That lilac is SO perfect to set off Tomomi's incredible flower section - she is a MASTER. |
 #61 - John Kobuki and Piper Dan Benway |
 This is THE ULTIMATE Samurai marble, put together by John!! |
 One of John's Samurai Warriors with an opal sword is in battle mode in front of Dan's pagoda. |
 The pagoda scene Dan created, with two types of opal moon is so so killer!! |
 Don't miss the opal head on the Samurai, oooh yeaah! |
 #62 - Atsushi Sasaki and Takao Miyake |
 Atsushi put this one together, using one of Takao's dotticellos, which has two opals floating above it. |
 Atsushi's fuming is brilliant as usual. Down below Takao's disc is a gorgeous layer of crushed opal that the cam didnt capture. |
 The backside has raised white frit over a red base, with geometric patterns etched and molded into it. |
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 #63 - Travis Weber and Ryan Fitt |
 Travis put this one together, a perfect pairing for one of Ryan's amazing eyeballs! |
 The bloodshot eye looks sort of brain like, ha ha. |
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 Travis' new style dot stacking complements this one SO nicely, an absolute wonder in glass! |
 #64 - Mike Gong and Gateson Recko |
 Mike put this smaller marble together and KILLED it, with one of his opal UFO's flying around. |
 This is the backside, with Mike's fume scratch, and an unbelievable green opal resting above it. |
 Check out how the fume trail of the spaceship trails up out of the fume scratch from below. JAW....DROP!!!! |
 Gateson's terra incognito planet in this one is an AWESOME example! |
 #65 - John Bridges and Tim Keyzers |
 Two different eyeball sections from John were used to complement Tim's amazing work in this beauty. |
 The slyme honeycomb behind this iris is gorgeous glass in hand! |
 I love the little double vortex eye effect going on behind the opal here. |
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 #66 - Jared DeLong and Piper Dan Benway |
 I love this marble so much. Jared created it using some of Dan's famous Pagoda murrine. |
 You can see through the marble from either side, with each side offering a different view of the two pagodas. |
 Dan created the fumed landscape and flower milli around it, and Jared encased it all. |
 Jared then added flowers and leaves on the outside, with the final step being to add that awesome watery texture to the marble. |
 #67 - Jared DeLong and Grimm (Karl Taylor) |
 This marble is large and INCREDIBLE. Jared packed Grimm's Alice in Wonderland theme into this wonderland of a marble. |
 You see Alice of course with her talking flowers, mushrooms, butterflies, etc. |
 Jared then added a whole host of his flowers, with a blue one in the middle. |
 Finally, a beautiful carved water-like pattern on the surface completes this amazing creation! |
 #68 - Jared DeLong and Christian Arnold |
 This marble is mind-boggling. Jared created it with FOUR of CA's sections, showing the full life cycle of the Xenomorph. |
 It starts with the hatching egg, then the Facehugger, then the curled up embryo, and finally the adult. |
 Sooo AWESOME, with the hilarious juxtaposition of sweet blue flowers all around! |
 Jared's surface cold-working to produce the water-like effect completes this absolute masterpiece. |
 #69 - Christian Arnold and Jennifer Menzies |
 Jennifer put together this marble, featuring an awesome example of one of Chris' full Xenomorphs from Aliens. |
 The marble has an ancient archaic look to it, and the detail in the bony Xenomorph is astounding. |
 I love how Jennifer created the wild stormy look on the marble, just like in the awesome movie! |
 Three stormy planets ring the equator of the marble. |
 #70 - Paul Katherman and Doug Conner |
 This marble was created by Paul and includes a sweet section by Doug inside of the marble. |
 This one was really hard to capture well - lots going on inside and hard to get the light down in there. |
 Paul's fuming inside and out is killer, so shiny, and it's loaded with spikes! |
 Here I tried to capture Doug's section better, a huge opal chunk, some silver mesh, an opal star and other things. |
 #71 - Keisuke Yoshida and Mark Eastman |
 Only two of these collabs were made by Keisuke, featuring cabs by Mark. |
 Keisuke created a double fumed retti for the focal, and then 4 more retties around the equator. |
 The cab by Mark featuring fumed and patterned dot work is INTENSE, so nice! |
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 #72 - Raven Copeland and Freddy Faerron |
 Raven finished off this vortex marble by Freddy, featuring some of his own fuming as well. |
 Freddy's rainbow fuming is off the charts awesome!! |
 Raven added one of his sweet 'spaceflakes' to the backside. |
 Can't get enough shots of that amazing fuming.... |
 #73 - Jared DeLong and Tomomi Handa |
 Jared created this collab using a can from Tomomi that I sent to him. |
 As usual, Jared's work is PERFECT, bringing Tomomi's lacey flowers and his together in perfect harmony. |
 Jared created this one large focal opal flower, with many other pastel flowers all around. |
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 #74 - Mike Gong and Eli Sipsas |
 Eli's first collab with The Gongsta! |
 It features a sweet 10mm white opal UFO with two of Mike's shrooms |
 Eli took Mike's core and then added his own fuming to the outside |
 There is lots of fumed stringer inside, I think made by Mike |
 #75 - Tim Keyzers and Sean Clayton |
 This is one of my new favorite marbles in the collection! |
 Tim took one of Sean's special square opal nebula marbles and electroformed and carved it |
 Sean created a bunch of nebula bubbles all over the backside of the marble, so awesome! |
 Tim's carving and copper electroforming patterns are PERFECT for this collab |
 #76 - Gateson Recko and Travis Weber |
 This is an unbelievable Universe marble from Gateson featuring FOUR inclusions by Travis Weber! |
 I snagged this at the 2015 Wheaton Marble Weekend show where Travis was the featured artist. |
 So much going on - 2 TDub planets, 2 TDub nebulae, other Gateson goodness throughout |
 AND it's UV, with each of Travis' elements containing Illuminati glass within! |
 #77 - John Kobuki and Bob Snodgrass |
 This is a super rare marble where John put one of his jellyfish on top of a Snoddy skull! |
 I believe there might only be one other jellyfish collab, although it's a bit different style |
 So nicely done as usual! |
 This one is actually signed by Bob also, very rare. |
 #78 - John Kobuki and Bob Snodgrass |
 This is one of my favorites from John. He named it 'Geisha', since the backside looks exactly like one. |
 From the front though, it is a Samurai Death Warrior! |
 Perfection in glass, perfection in marbleocity! |
 AND it came with this amazing case that John hand-made as well!! |
 #79 - Ian Arremony and Eli Sipsas |
 This marble was put together by Ian using some tubing from Eli |
 The marble is hollow with Slyme windows over fume and then Ian sleeved it and rounded it out |
 Suuuuper sweet effect, love how it turned out! |
 Forgive my horrible pics, didn't see they were out of focus until too late. Will fix later |
 #80 - James Daschbach and Mike Gong |
 This little absolute gem was put together by James in 2012 using one of Mike's silver fumacellos |
 You can see the progression of James' backside tech from 3 years ago |
 Brilliant. Just brilliant. |
 Once again, a PERFECT mashup of styles from two guys who were born to collaborate! |
 #81 - Rose Roads, Takao Miyake and Josh Sable |
 This marble was created as a demo for the Marble Masters 4 show held at the Goosefire Gallery in SoCal May 2016. |
 Both Jun and Takao each worked for a couple of days on their cabs, Jun with his iconic river scene and Takao with his tribal |
 Josh put the marble together on the last day of the show, masterful, incorporating 8 of Jun's milli around the equator. |
 Simply put - one of the greatest marbles of all time, and I got to watch a lot of it being made! |
 #82 - Josh Sable and Jason Gordon |
 This is a marble Josh put together using one of Jason's LFD (Layered for Depth) sections. |
 Josh worked some of his beautiful pinwheeling and milli into the backside. |
 Jason's section is seriously DEEP, really cool glass and so colorful! |
 Unique and absolutely one of a kind! |
 #83 - James Yaun and Christian Arnold |
 Here's a classic gem that James put together featuring one of Chris' Xenomorphs! |
 The detail Chris got into this one is incredible, with awesome coloring, SO cool |
 James added an Alien seed pod on his side of the collab, ha |
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 #84 - James Yaun and Carlos Montez |
 For this marble, James took one of Carlos' scaled sections and added it to the back |
 The fuming inside of this vortex gem is AMAZING!! |
 An absolutely perfect combination of styles from these two |
 Dichro and a blinging opal are inside as well, oh yeah |
 #85 - John Kobuki asnd Aaron Slater |
 Here John took one of Aaron'a reef cabs and placed it behind his jellyfish |
 It's a beautiful jelly with its opal inside |
 The detail in Aaron's anemone reef is flat out brilliant, so life like! |
 The whole thing is chock full of UV, which I was too lazy to photograph, doh! |
 #86 - Chad Parker and Rick/Marni Carter |
 Here is one of Chad's famous Monsterz, worked into a collab by Rick and Marni! |
 Chad's faces are always crazy fun. |
 I love the opal work Rick and Marni did with this one, tons of bling! |
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 #87 - Jason Gordon and Dan Benway |
 Jason put this collab together, using one of his super deep LFD (Layered For Depth) sections. |
 He then added one of Dan's Japanese pogodas floating in the lens! |
 Awesome sparkle dot work on the back. |
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 #88 - Jason Lee and Tara Roberts |
 This is an amazingly fun collab, with WAY more depth to the UFO design than the pics show, very 3D |
 Jason and Tara worked together on all of the various murrine you see in the image |
 Very cool alien image as well on the back which Jason created! |
 And here's the BEST part - the tractor beam lights up like crazy when you hit it with the black light, woohoo!! |
 #89 - Travis Weber and Piper Dan Benway |
 This fun one features Dan's UV Ghost City floating over Travis' Gravity Well! |
 The geometric gravity well sucks everything in its path, so this Ghost City will soon be no more.... |
 One of Dan's fumed sections is seen on the backside |
 UV shot of the Ghost City |
 #90 - Happy Harold Cooney and Kevin Engelmann |
 Kevin created the fumed core, and Harold wrapped it up all purdy. |
 Harold's cane work is legendary, and it is tight and sweet on this gem! |
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 #91 - Gateson Recko and Rose Roads |
 This amazing Universe marble by Gateson features a small cab from Junichi, fashioned into a planet! |
 Gateson's usual stunning planets and other space surround it. |
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 A pointillism planet - brilliant! |
 #92 - Tim Keyzers and Sean Clayton |
 Another stunning display of spherical space art from this dynamic duo! |
 Sean's nebula core has a Star Collector and is chock full of stars all through it. |
 Tim's electroforming and carving on this piece is stellar to say the least!! |
 Sean mixed in some Lucy glass at the bottom of the core to add some UV glow, SO cool. |
 #93 - Stephen Boehme and Karl Taylor |
 Celebrating Alice in Wonderland, here is Stephen's Mad Hatter image! |
 This masterpiece combines the best of both of these legendary murrine artists. |
 This is the greatest thing, Karl's Alice image staring into the Alice in the mirror, which is Stephen's image! |
 Some fun images from Karl add so much to the piece! |
 #94 - Stephen Boehme and Karl Taylor |
 The greatness of Stephen Boehme, celebrating 'It', including his hand made stand. |
 It incoporates a bunch of Karl's graveyard murrine into the design! |
 "We All Float" |
 Multi-layered, multi-AMAZING! |
 #95 - Mike Gong and Abe Fleishman |
 Abe, Northstar Glass owner, likes to do fumicellos, so a pairing with Mike, the fumicello master, was natural |
 Here is Mike's beautiful double fumicello |
 And here is Abe's side with silvery fumey goodness! |
 Double-double perfection. |
 #96 - John Kobuki and Bob Snodgrass |
 One of my fav Snoddy collabs where John added opal earrings to the skull! |
 The skull blooms out of a perfect flower created by John |
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 Skull perfection! |
 #97 - Matt Kelley and Sergio Vettori Rodrigues |
 Sergio created that gorgeous 'painted' landscape behind the flower, so nice! |
 Matt put this piece together with one of his flowers and the backside. |
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 #98 - Matt Kelley and Mario East |
 This was a special collab Matt made to support vicitms of the 2020 Cali fires |
 Matt's redwood tree has ash from one of the Cali fires worked into the roots! |
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 Mario did the beautiful crushed opal backside for the piece |
 #99 -Akihiro Okama and Yoshinori Kondo |
 This gem, put together by Aki, features one of Yoshi's early flower dot stacks |
 Aki's retti with pulled dots adorns the other side |
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 Aki included pinwheeling around the equator |
 #100 - Mike Gong and Travis Weber |
 Travis put this gem together with one of Mike's double fumicellos |
 Travis' amazing dot work is everywhere else around this marble |
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 #101 - Mike Gong and John Bridges |
 Mike put this sweet piece together with some of John's twisted and fumed wigwags inside |
 Mike's signature dotstacking goes all around the equator |
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 #102 - Ryan Teurfs and Chris Hanson |
 Chris Hanson's flower is seen here |
 Ryan put this piece together with his amazing complex honeycomb wrapped around it |
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 #103 - Ryan Teurfs and Nathan Middleton |
 Ryan put this honeycomb wrap together with one of Nathan's big murrine bees on the surface |
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 #104 - Calvin Mickle and Andrew Brown |
 Gorgeous in hand! |
 Andrew's dichro fumed implosion and pinwheeling on this side... |
 And Calvin's fumey space pattern on this side |
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 #105 - Calvin Mickle and Natey Biskind |
 Calvin's fumicello and Natey's fumed air trap implosion |
 All twisted up! |
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 #106 - Gateson Recko and Andrew Brown |
 Gateson's Terra Incognito on this side... |
 With Andrew's rainbow twisted fumed implosion on the other! |
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 #107 - Gateson Recko and Josh Sable |
 Gatesons crafted his Universe marble with Josh's retti inside and millie outside |
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 #108 - Josh Sable and Jack Hanshaw |
 Josh put this one together with Jack's anemome cluster inside |
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 #109 - Josh Sable and Jack Hanshaw |
 Another one Josh crafted with Jack's anemone inside |
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 #110 - John Kobuki and Bob Snodgrass |
 John made a number of these winged skull marbles using one of Bob's skulls |
 The horns on the skull was a fun touch from John! |
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 #111 - John Kobuki and Bob Snodgrass |
 Absolute classic from John with one of Snoddy's big flat skulls |
 Killer flower that the skull has stopped to sniff |
 I love the incorporation of the lightning bolt opal |
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 #112 - Dan Benway and Paul Stephan |
 This big piece features both versions of Dan's Asanoha Castle |
 Paul's Mario images are sprinkled throughout the wraparound scene |
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 Loaded with UV! |
 #113 - Robert Koch and Stephen Boehme |
 Robert put this beauty together with Steve's owls as the main focus |
 Rob's murrine surround the piece, including his cool trees! |
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 Veggies, plants and critters galore! |
 #114 - Mike Gong, Anton Bodor and Travis Weber |
 Amazing tri-collab Acid Eater! |
 Mike's Eater is front and center in this huge marble with amazing UV in Travis' inner section |
 Anton's dot stacking is WILD! |
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 #115 - Chad Parker and Kim Trett |
 One of Chad's Monsterz bee heads is the focal point |
 The bee is laid over Kim's gold fumed honeycomb, along with her bee murrine eyes |
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 #116 - Chad Parker and Michael Mangiafico (Fig) |
 The backside features Michael's 3D crab |
 The main side has one of Chad's Monsterz surrounded by Michael's anemone |
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 #117 - Anton Bodor, Travis Weber and Peter Boyle |
 Peter's fun mushroom inside with a killer fumed stringer network around it |
 Fantastic dot work and ringcalmo from Anton and Travis! |
 The UV in this one is wild! |
 The backside with Peter's sporelike creations |
 #118 - Anton Bodor and Travis Weber |
 I looooove the colors and patterns in this fun gem from 2 best friends |
 Sweet UV, better in hand than I captured here |
 Anton's dot stacking and masking with the Killer green sparkle is so sweet! |
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 #118 - Anton Bodor and Alex Varona (Credo) |
 "Saucer Full of Secrets" |
 Crazy cool millie rings from Alex with crushed opal mixed in! |
 Loooove that big white opal disc in the center |
 Anton's B&W dot stacking perfectly complements this piece! |
 #119 - Mike Gong and Pogo Glass |
 The "Albert Eater" with Pogo's Albert Hoffman image on this side |
 Super fun Eater face from Mike with killer UV! Love the opal |
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