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Old 2014-02-24, 10:16pm
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I have two thoughts on this. First, the thicker walled tubing will probably be easier for you to work in the beginning. Also, you will need a bit thicker tubing if you want to blow a round ornamant the size of an orange and have enough wall thickness that it wont be overly fragile. However, you can develop better control learning to use thinner tubing.

If you have not used tubing before, you may want to get some medium walled tubing that has a smaller OD than 25MM to learn to pull points and just to play with and work your way up to 25MM OD. After you practise pulling points, practise contracting and blowing out shapes and keeping an even wall thickness. Even wall thickness will be an absolute MUST for your project.

If I am using 20MM medium walled tubing and wrap it with color I can easily blow out a sphere 40MM in diameter. The raven skull I posted in the boro show and tell started with 20MM clear tubing.

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