 What drew me to the torch was the ability to create different styles of arts and still make a decent living doing it, so interested in it and intrigued that I just had to have my hands on it and be in front of that torch. A lot of the art styles I use in the glasswork came from my tattooing abilities and the ideas that I get even with the woodwork as well. It's all fed off of my five years of tattooing. What glassblowers initially inspired my style would be the puke and beagle was a huge one, Ron Worm, Steve Bates, Swagger at the time, Donk or Lester and Sean, they were great influences on the person that I have become at my glass-building today. Depending on how much wood to glass ratio there is, if you get too much glass on too little of a body, I've noticed they're kind of tinny, but most of the time I leave so much wood on it that most people wouldn't know the difference. At any given point in time, on top of my regular everyday production work, which I don't stop doing, I have anywhere from five, six, seven guitars going on, doing the woodwork, doing the glasswork, some of the challenging aspects that smokers may overlook when it comes to glassblowing are that it's quite difficult. Some of the things we make look very easily, but it's more of a repetitive thing. When a lot of smokers are like asked for custom colors and such like that, I don't think they realize how hard some colors, if impossible, are to do certain things with blowing a simple bubble or doing lacework with it, it's just impossible. You want red, well, red boils real bad, certain shades of red and such like that, and a lot of smokers would definitely overlook that. At some point in time, those simple things were very difficult to make, a lot of getting cut, getting burned. The most rewarding aspect to being a glassblower is I think the art fact of it. I have light bulbs just going off in my head all the time that I could create this or create that some things don't work, some things do work, almost the things that don't work sometimes you learn more off of than the things that do, and it goes towards advances in future creations and such like that, and I just love it.