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This week on our Elev8 @ 8 we were joined by one of our very own glass blowers. Thats right, we are a company started by a glass blower SSV_STEVE_ELEV8 so we are lucky to have a glass blowing studio with a team of American made glass! During this live the special guest was Skoeet Glass.It was a good watch, a couple of jokes were cracked. He is definitely a funny guy. Even cooler we got to h

Back again with another elev8 at 8 with the elev8 crew, and this week we had the one and only Don Chile Ortega. Don Chile was a great guest who knows a lot and has a lot of great stories. He started blowing glass 21 years ago so his work is clearly impeccable. His wood grain worked glass comes from his love for the outdoors. Being from Oregon he fell in love with the tree and logging loo

This week's Elev8 at 8 was a fun Instagram live with the entire Elev8 Crew from all different parts of our company going over our Elev8 University. We, as a company are very diverse and we truly are industry leaders with tons of knowledge and information as we are vape manufacturers, blowers, growers and people just like you. With our amazing Elev8 Premier Glass blowers, our 2 head shops

Avant Garde is the newest perc tecnology to hit the scene! Whats up fellow Elev8ed People, thank you again for joining us at another Elev8 with the crew event. This week we had another well known, and highly touted glass blower Dylan Kelly and his company Avant Garde Glass. Go give him a follow @avantgardeglass on instagram he posts a lot of awesome function videos which are always fun t

Got to Check in with Joel Halen a badass glassblower. He has fun blowing glass and his work shows it. We got to find out the first 12 years he did boro glass, but he has been blowing for 19 total. Joel has an entire quartz studio and a separate studio for other glass. Gotta go check out his quartz studio its design and layout are a beautiful symphony of glass blowing. What makes him unique is he

June GiveawayDon Chile and MicroElev8 Glass Gallery will be hosting two giveaways starting in June featuring Don Chile and Micro in our monthly new Elev8 featured blowers of the month!Don Chile Glass Giveaway Starts June 5th and Ends June 8thDon Chile is most known for his sculpting and wood grain techniques. With over 22 years glass experience spanning from his early work at Jerome Baker to

Joel Halen is a name you hear a lot of in the glass community. Not only has he been making awesome glass work for over 20 years he produces some of the finest quartz bangers that money can buy. Joel started blowing glass in 2001 making small beads, hemp necklaces, and spoon pipes and first selling his work at Bonnaroo. From there he worked as a production glass worker for Geostrophic glass in Om

Percolators are a type of filter used to cool and clean smoke in bongs and water pipes. There are many varieties within the cannabis consumption world and while researching the many types and histories we found ourselves going down Alice's rabbit hole to Wonderland.Our journey started in Berkeley California with a guy named Christopher Carsterns who from what we know started PHX. PHX was from B

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Elev8 at 8. We will be doing a live event every Friday so we would love to see you again!  It really feels great to see the same people joining week after week, so we thank you for coming by to get Elev8ed with us.  This week we had a special guest and an amazing artist Steve H. Steve H is known for his dot work and implosions and so w

Annealed Innovations is a talented glass artist known for his reaper sculptures. He started blowing glass in December 2004 in Eugene, Oregon where works and lives today. Annealed Innovations mostly has a history of working from his home studio where he can still be found today although Annealed Innovations mentions he did for a period of time share space with Cowboy. When asked Annealed Innovati

Today were interviewing Burtoni an accomplished glass blower from Hawaii who has 10 years of work under his belt. Starting in 2011 at an apprenticeship with simple beads Burtoni learned to work on glass and quickly started doing complex sculptural work for craft shows. After his apprenticeship ended, him an a fellow glassblower started a home studio were Burtoni continued his sculpt

Kevin Murry is well known in the glass community for his crisp and clean line work. Starting at 17 years old in 2004 Kevin started visiting another glass blowers home studio after school. Currently Kevin Murry works and lives at home in Oregon city, although Kevin prefers works alone he mentioned he often collaborates with Grandpa Facets who lives right down the road. Kevin's