How Many marbles do I really Make?

I have been keeping a work diary on and off since 1992 and I have kept track of the marbles I make since 2002 pretty reliably so I thought I would list them here. I generally keep fairly detailed records and might even be able to tell yoiu the day I made any particular marble. I thought collectors might appreciate this kind of info.

2006

I have not gone through my journals but I probably have not made more than 100 marbles, but the year is not over yet.

2005

I have not gone through my journals Yet and don't plan on it but Made less than in 2004

2004

(Anchovy - 5)(Dugg - 5)( Enamel - 18)(Experimental - 13)(Flame, Cased - 1)(Flower - 103)(Flower, Deco - 8)(Flower I/O - 18)(Jovian - 16)( Kaleidoscope - 3)(Monster Eye - 68)(Nightsky - 1)(Palantir - 6)(peewee - 3)(Tornado - 75)(Wisps - 68)(Yule - 20)(Junk - 16)total 543

Anchovy - I made only a very few

Dugg - A few trees this year

Enamel - a great style but I think I was sort of waiting for a better way of encasement

Experimental - The Palantir was one and some of the others were tornado-like or just plain wierd

Flame, cased - I love flames and could not resist the urge apparently

Flower - I spent alot of time developing my flowers this year

Flower deco - This is a bead flower technique that I applied to marbles

Flower I/O - I really love the I/O technique and spent alot of time working on it in beads and buttons

Jovians - A neat marble that increased in size somewhat, its one I like and I find it hard to believe that I only made a few of them this year

K-scope - Made a very few for the very few kaleidoscopes I made this year

Monster eye - A great marble that could have used a little more attention, especially since they were coming out so great

Palantir - inspired by LOTR...I'm a geek. I tried but I don't think I captured it

Peewee - some peltier tributes for Marble buddies

Tornado - Coming out of my wisp style a few dozen more controlled twists gets you something really interesting

Wisps - There is really alot of room for developement here still and I hope to pursue it

Yule - I have been doing yule marbles in groups of 20 for the past 4 years, somehow just this year I started to track it. Its essentially a style I do and like and do 20 of the same marble to give to family and friends. its an off shoot of what I used to do in the 90's with other glass and somewhat inspired by Drew Fritts who was extending it into the realm of Marbles

Junk? - There were some marbles I did not dump into the water bucket because I thought they had something to teach me that I kept. Looking back some seem valid where others do not. I am trying to keep an open mind on the subject

2003

(Anchovy - 43)(Dichro Twist - 83(Dichro Twist and Torsion - 36))(Dugg - 42)(Enamel - 111)(Experimental and custom - 66)(Flame - Cased - 15)(Flowers Misc small and wierd I/O - 50)(Flower - 57)(Jovian - 50)(Kaleidoscope - 20)(Medical Specimen - 3)(Monster Eye - 96)(Nightsky - 10)(Peewees, various - 130)(Sulphide, Dragonfly - 46)(Sulphide,Other - 12)(Whitecore - 16)(Wisp - 60) 910 total

Anchovy - fun marbles they continued to get larger and larger

Dichro twist - My use of dichro and heat control made the a little more intersting this year

Dugg - Most of the flowers and trees I wanted to do never met my expectations, but many turned out very interesting and the technique led me in some other intersting directions

Enamel - There is still alot of room for interesting work here, and these increased in size this year

Experimental and custom - I generally don't call my marbles experimental unless they are definitavly a bridge between somewhere I am and somewhere I am trying to get to but I did do alot of custom marbles this year. Names, and small designs

Flame, Cased - Casing the flames I had done for several years seemed to be the way to take them to the next level, but rod casing was detracing from what they really could be so I decided to wait on developing them further

Flowers misc - lots of work and experimentation, there were probably 4 times this amount of marbles that went right into the water bucket, but I learned alot about the inside out technique as well as some novel appraoches to flowers.

Flower - As with the previous I would say many ended up in the bucket but of the ones that went to completion they were many stepping stones to what my flowers came to be in the next 2 years

Jovian - sort of a cased reverse twist. They are fun to make and give me an excuse to try color combos.

Kaleidoscope - I got honest and just decided to call these what they were, nice Marbles for Kaleidoscope, mostly clear with good color and some sparkle

Medical Specimen - Crash and burn - see 2002

Monster eye - Bigger and more detail

Nightsky - I love the color, so I made a few.

Peewees, various - Small marbles are fun so I made a bunch of interesting ones , Mainly working on heat control and fiddling with equiptment and tools

Sulphides - Made a bunch as a sort of swan song into the area of sulphides, the dragonflies I liked personally so I kept a bunch.

Whitecore - The trailing end of something I lost interest in see 2002

Wisp - Developed out of some of my Dugg techniques, I began to see all of the possibilities of this style.

2002

(Anchovy - 23)(Bi-Level-38)(Bocci - 11)(Cork-29)(Dichro - 52)(Dugg - 32)(Enamel-95)(Experimental - 14)(Flames -100)(Guinea - 26)(Jcoats - 49)(Medical Specimen - 29)(Monster Eye - 83)(Nightsky - 26)(Onionskin - 41)(Patch - 16)(Peewee - 12)(Peewee, Dichro - 54)(Sulphide - 24)(Vortex Flowers- 30)(Whitecore - 21)(Wirepull - 1)797 total

Some notes about 2002 - 21 of each of the following types went into what I called my signature series, and were never sold. (except one of which went to the Marble Museum , and one was auctioned (Bilevel - Cork - Enamel - Dugg - Joseph Coat - Flame - Guinea - Onionskin)

Anchovies were my largest marble type for this year, simple, sparkley fun

BiLevels were something I made alot of in earlier years but phased them out this year

Bocci - This was an experiment for a trophy, they were bagged and put away in my unsold stock for the year

Cork - Corks a J-coats were basically the same, I had a reason for separating them but I forget now what it was

Dichro - these early ones were 4 bands and just straight corks

Enamel - I got better at doing these this year, lots of variety

Experimentals - These often led to new styles or advancement in styles

Flames were something I was doing alot of starting in 1999, this was the last year I did these smaller marbles

Guinea - I never made too many of these, everyone seems to do them

J-coats - My understanding of marble terminology was pretty bad these were essentially corks

Medical Specimen - I intended this to be a study of encasement of hard and soft form through 100 marbles, I never sold but a few of them the rest ended up in the junk box

Monster Eye - I was starting to improve my eyes in this year making them larger and began adding detail to the backs

Nightsky - I was interested in persuing this style but sort of trailed off hoping to get a crucible furnace to make them larger and more intersting

OnionSkin - This was basically my Kaleidoscope style which I made mainly for my glass Scopes

Patch - Peewees, some homage marbles

Dichro peewees - Made these at the request Of B Cohen possibly for rings, but just could not get them accurately sized

Sulphide - I had been making very small sulphides for a few years claiming the worlds smallest sulphides. Ray Laubs came into the marble world and was making a much better job of it so I sort of trailed off

Vortex flowers - my flowers were delevoped out of trying to put something interesting into the center of a vortex, I kept trying, most of these were development and practice.

Whitecore - Another poorly concieved color study of what was supposed to be 100 marbles. I lost interested though improvements of technique in other areas

Wirepull - I wanted to make a wirepull and did, it was great

2001 and earlier, i did not track or keep a work diary of my specific marbles. There just were not vert many the following are estimates

2001 - 200-300 total sold some given away maybe another 100 any others not worth keeping were destroyed - I kept a few for myself The first year I started signing them

2000 - 100-200 sold plus 50 - 100 given away the rest destroyed - I kept a few for myself - unsigned I did sign a few of the larger one upon request

1999 - 50-100 sold 50-100 given away, the rest destroyed, kept a few. - unsigned

1998 - any sold were in Kscopes , not more than a few dozen, I kept a few but destroyed most of them

1997 - Marbles were purely for pleasure but were un-annealed and I never sold any, I kept a few, but most I threw out.

1996 - Same as 1997