I feel like most of it is skill of knowing the medium and how it reacts, he has so much knowledge of the glass and neon from years of experience. The Art and design comes from making what the customer wants. My Opinion
Dear artisan: you are thanking people for allowing you to make this video, and it's OK, but I want to thank you for explaining such kindly how neon signs are made. I've been wanting to know this for all my life and it turns out to be as delightful to watch as I had thought it would.
fun thing is that this is the entire field of spectroscopy works. Different atoms emit different wavelengths of light when excited (electrified) from this we can determine the chemical composition of stars, the chemical composition of (some) planets orbiting other stars, and we can make cool signs as seen above! Blacklights emit UV light and the 'gas' used in them mercury vapor!
One of the manual Crafts / Arts that soon will be forgotten. Or NOT? Colorful, Highly skilled glass work, artistic and technical at the same time. Also scary: 10000 Volts can break your heart... Literally. This is one of the crafts I would have liked to learn - if I were younger.
What a wonderfully delightful, and handsome man Gérald Collard is! He has not only a very much admired talent, but also, a fantastic accent! I enjoyed this video so much because of him, AND I learned how neon signs are made. Fascinating, colorful, bright, and happy workmanship!
Since I was a small child I was always fascinated by neon signs / neon art. I always wished I could have my own neon sign but as a kid getting my own neon was way out of reach. Over the years since then I have collected a few true glass neon signs. True glass neon is so much livelier and so much nicer than the fake imitation LED "neon" that has become popular these days. I do envy your skill and abilities in creating neon signs/art. I would love to learn how to build my own glass neon signs. Watching this video is very inspiring. It also reflects the years upon years of knowledge and skill that can only be acquired via hard work and devotion.
whelp! I thought the coloring is from the glass (or the LED) itself.. but now i know that your put some gas into the tube to make it colorful orz And i love how humble he seems doing something so special like this, like mentioning glass blowing stuff, and that end of the video where he gave thanks.
Wow what a great art. Always love seeing these in a malls or shops, gives me that 80s, 90s feel. Unfortunately we don;t see much of neon lights used in newer structures these days, LED has taken the spot for lighting. There will always be a spot for neon, as it's a long last art. Great video thank you, I learned a lot about this.
I'm near retirement and I'm looking for a cool hobby and have always been fascinated with neon signs since I was little kid. Need to find equipment 1st. Thanks for sharing this artform.
I love your videos. I never even thought about how some of this stuff is made, but it turns out that the process is always interesting to learn about ^.^
this is one of those things that really takes passion to learn, ive always been one that could watch a few tutorials an pick up how to do things an welding was the first thing i ran into that wasn't as easy as watching someone do it but took time for me to get decent an even now i dont consider myself a welder thats work is worth paying for cause its not pretty but is good enough for structural welding and this is the same thing im getting from this. there is a true artform to getting the glass to do what u want it to from the looks of things an isnt something that u can pick up from just looking but is going to take an input to see the reaction of the glass an i assume this takes alot of time, patience and quite a bit of material put into it just learning the feel of how glass moves at these temps an it looks like its getting the glass just hot enough for it to start to soften but not so hot that looses its shape an the blowing through the tube im guessing is either to help keep the inside cooler or to hold a positive pressure to keep the tube from collapsing. id love to get my hands on the stuff to give this a shot just cause i feel like this is another one of those dying techs due to the newer tech from leds.
I've always wanted to do this to be able to create neon tube I worked and repaired on neon signs but I've never actually designed awesome job I will be looking forward to more videos
This is the only video to watch if you need to understand only the most truely fundamental points of how neon lights are made. Thank you very much for your clear and concise approach to giving a wonderful inisight regarding an art which is timeless, as technical as could be desired, useful and truly beautiful. My admiration only increases to know the art is only a 100 years old and the tools applied nowadays in your shop may be much the same as they were then- however the manner in which the artists of old obtained the tools and material is certainly much different. If I had the time and tools, the piece I would make is a bronze divers' hat being submerged in a cool blue hue. Thanks again.
His voice so laid back the calming effect was like on point I started reminiscing about the time as a kid I went up north to Michigan my grandfather sat and showed me how to make fishing flies I just watched and I just had that same feeling just dejavue man got me all in my feeling with his poetry in the night hahah seriously I’m about to figure out why half my neon sign won’t lite up I have a couple from my moms old healthfood “squash blossom “ a massive open and yellow “vitamins”, “organic food” and supplements I think the organic food one got destroyed in a stupid fight with my brother mom did warn me man to this day regret that there like 24 years old now the freaking power supply on the open sign scares respect into me it’s like 15lbs and flatline heart beat if you somehow made bad contact but the colors so nostalgic well here goes the troubleshoot wish me luck
This is amazing I've always wondered how this was made thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us and this beers 🍺for you kind sir and thank you for teaching and passing your skills on for our future generations
I feel like if i buy eqipment to start making bubble lights, it wouldn't be much of a leap to move onto this... maybe. I think I need some torches and a lot of practice tubing bahahaha :)
I do lampwork rn I learned as a pipemaker but I'm looking to transition to neon sculpture and light fixtures. I work in a small space. 7 x 9 ish. I'm wondering what the best quality bombarder I can get is that will fit in my workshop. I'm thinking I can use my bench torch as well a the dual headed hand torch you have. Cheers from the state of maine
This guy is a proper talented neon bender, not many left now. This Industry is being taken over by faux neon and led lights which just don't look the same as real neon. L.e.d.s just aint a patch on a real neon sign and you don't need any special talent to make one. But for real neon with it's bright and strong colours you need talent and patience to learn the process. It aint easy to learn and not many are given the chance. Iv'e seen many people give up after a year or so and must admit it took me six years to become good at all the different skills involved and 10years to be very confident at it. So why would you bother these days when any idiot can stick an L.E.D. down... and lets face it lot's of people are confusing this medium with Led, rope light, or even EL wire.. all faux neon products that will not supply you with any ambiance and certainly won't light a room up with them. real neon is still king and can be fully recycled whereas the rest will be binned when they have had there short life. Buy a proper glass neon filled lights and you will have them for a lifetime... I personaly use them in every room in my house and I never buy new bulbs. They haven't been replaced in over 16 years. You never see any body bragging about having a led sign that they have had for many years, passed down thru the family from the previous generation because they end up in the bin after 6 months. NEON IS STILL THE BEST, thats why everyone is trying to imitate it.
Neon Family is awesome. I'm looking forward to work with this 🔥 fire scare me. I hope I can make great designs like you.Ralphode and Marshella Roddock Thompson Campbell
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Making neon lights seems like the perfect blend between art, science, design, and communication.
I feel like most of it is skill of knowing the medium and how it reacts, he has so much knowledge of the glass and neon from years of experience. The Art and design comes from making what the customer wants.
My Opinion
wtf you said bro?
@@AccountSpace unless you come up with your own art. But I feel you. Turning hot glass is in itself an art as well
Dear artisan: you are thanking people for allowing you to make this video, and it's OK, but I want to thank you for explaining such kindly how neon signs are made. I've been wanting to know this for all my life and it turns out to be as delightful to watch as I had thought it would.
I didn’t know neon actually just made warm colours and argon made cool colours
Learn something new every day
fun thing is that this is the entire field of spectroscopy works. Different atoms emit different wavelengths of light when excited (electrified) from this we can determine the chemical composition of stars, the chemical composition of (some) planets orbiting other stars, and we can make cool signs as seen above! Blacklights emit UV light and the 'gas' used in them mercury vapor!
I tought it was the other wat arround
I would burn myself, break a lot of glass and miss a lot of turn!
Hi
@@aldrinph1029 Hello
Hey everyone, thanks for watching. If you wanted to make something out of neon, what design would you make?
Stereokroma i would make a brain lol, i think the curves would make the design interesting to look at
💩 it's gonna be beautifullll
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Bassnectars bassdrop symbol would be neat and a challenge!
DICKBUTT!
One of the manual Crafts / Arts that soon will be forgotten. Or NOT? Colorful, Highly skilled glass work, artistic and technical at the same time. Also scary: 10000 Volts can break your heart... Literally.
This is one of the crafts I would have liked to learn - if I were younger.
Never 2 late. Im.43 and just learning.
What a wonderfully delightful, and handsome man Gérald Collard is! He has not only a very much admired talent, but also, a fantastic accent! I enjoyed this video so much because of him, AND I learned how neon signs are made. Fascinating, colorful, bright, and happy workmanship!
Amazing work of art and science. And the artist, he is very gentle. The way he explained everything just feels like hearing a soothing music😍
Since I was a small child I was always fascinated by neon signs / neon art. I always wished I could have my own neon sign but as a kid getting my own neon was way out of reach. Over the years since then I have collected a few true glass neon signs. True glass neon is so much livelier and so much nicer than the fake imitation LED "neon" that has become popular these days. I do envy your skill and abilities in creating neon signs/art. I would love to learn how to build my own glass neon signs. Watching this video is very inspiring. It also reflects the years upon years of knowledge and skill that can only be acquired via hard work and devotion.
Anyone that works with tubing knows how difficult this is. You make it look easy.
If you're interested in following Gérald, check out their FB page: facebook.com/atelierneonfamily/
whelp! I thought the coloring is from the glass (or the LED) itself.. but now i know that your put some gas into the tube to make it colorful orz
And i love how humble he seems doing something so special like this, like mentioning glass blowing stuff, and that end of the video where he gave thanks.
There is no LED involved .
I grew up in Miami in the late 80s and 90s I have always loved neon signs!!!!
2023, I still come back to this one. Beautiful work. Nothing absolutely nothing beats oldskool!
🍻 👍 😎 👍 🍻
4:43 im dying🤣
LOL prt
Hahahahaha epic
Wow what a great art. Always love seeing these in a malls or shops, gives me that 80s, 90s feel. Unfortunately we don;t see much of neon lights used in newer structures these days, LED has taken the spot for lighting. There will always be a spot for neon, as it's a long last art. Great video thank you, I learned a lot about this.
So much patience needed...man and Gave his life's 25years???..oh man hats off to this man...
Neon is so cool! My dad makes neon too, and I hope the art never dies.
Another extremely high quality video by you guys, you guys are a cut above the rest by a long shot
Thank you! ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ
I'm near retirement and I'm looking for a cool hobby and have always been fascinated with neon signs since I was little kid. Need to find equipment 1st. Thanks for sharing this artform.
This was so satisfying om i want more plz!
I love your videos. I never even thought about how some of this stuff is made, but it turns out that the process is always interesting to learn about ^.^
Ahh it was fun visiting your shop. I too bent glass and made it glow. All around Hilo Hawaii.
Aloha
A real artisan! 40 years, wow. What a dream job!
0:50 made me cackle, love this!
It seems that they got all of us with a sneaky 👌
Le petit accent anglophone québécois on l’aura reconnu, sinon super vidéo!
Consider your self an ACE , very well explained, your tooling is awesome .
Great video as usual, and excelent timing! I was just getting back into watching videos about glass work and neon signs
the actual element neon is only used in red to orange lights, apparently.
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@@alexabadi7458 Thanks for sharing, interesting video !
He is sucha good teacher
this is one of those things that really takes passion to learn, ive always been one that could watch a few tutorials an pick up how to do things an welding was the first thing i ran into that wasn't as easy as watching someone do it but took time for me to get decent an even now i dont consider myself a welder thats work is worth paying for cause its not pretty but is good enough for structural welding and this is the same thing im getting from this. there is a true artform to getting the glass to do what u want it to from the looks of things an isnt something that u can pick up from just looking but is going to take an input to see the reaction of the glass an i assume this takes alot of time, patience and quite a bit of material put into it just learning the feel of how glass moves at these temps an it looks like its getting the glass just hot enough for it to start to soften but not so hot that looses its shape an the blowing through the tube im guessing is either to help keep the inside cooler or to hold a positive pressure to keep the tube from collapsing. id love to get my hands on the stuff to give this a shot just cause i feel like this is another one of those dying techs due to the newer tech from leds.
thats a Master at work thanks for making the video
The memories of making the hard-line loop for my pc are coming back.
Brilliant Sir, classic masterpiece
I've always wanted to do this to be able to create neon tube I worked and repaired on neon signs but I've never actually designed awesome job I will be looking forward to more videos
This is the only video to watch if you need to understand only the most truely fundamental points of how neon lights are made. Thank you very much for your clear and concise approach to giving a wonderful inisight regarding an art which is timeless, as technical as could be desired, useful and truly beautiful. My admiration only increases to know the art is only a 100 years old and the tools applied nowadays in your shop may be much the same as they were then- however the manner in which the artists of old obtained the tools and material is certainly much different. If I had the time and tools, the piece I would make is a bronze divers' hat being submerged in a cool blue hue. Thanks again.
What a cool art form
His voice so laid back the calming effect was like on point I started reminiscing about the time as a kid I went up north to Michigan my grandfather sat and showed me how to make fishing flies I just watched and I just had that same feeling just dejavue man got me all in my feeling with his poetry in the night hahah seriously I’m about to figure out why half my neon sign won’t lite up I have a couple from my moms old healthfood “squash blossom “ a massive open and yellow “vitamins”, “organic food” and supplements I think the organic food one got destroyed in a stupid fight with my brother mom did warn me man to this day regret that there like 24 years old now the freaking power supply on the open sign scares respect into me it’s like 15lbs and flatline heart beat if you somehow made bad contact but the colors so nostalgic well here goes the troubleshoot wish me luck
It's so wonderful, keep the fire burning.
I bet the torches warm up the workshop nicely in winter
I found this utterly captivating! So interesting.
This was such a cool video
Also 4:43 was so funny to me for some reason?? "And then we will see why I will blow" *tthbhbh*
it cool that people still do hand made things
thank you so much! I get to take this course next semester and I wanted a preview :) thank you!!! merci :) excellent video!
Amazing amazing video, beautifully shot and edited! - great job as always :)
Thank you! Also, cool channel, keep it up. :)
From a channel like yours that means a lot - thank you!
I really enjoy watching your videos! Always interesting stuff. Please keep on with this great content :)
Thank you! :)
I really enjoy listening about your work.
Amazing family.....awesome neon glass work
Fascinating.
This dude is awesome
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVED EVERY SECOND
Your wonderful friend. I tried once bending a glass tube in the lab and it ended a blob!!!!
He would be the king in water cooling loop mod
Very very hard work.
This is amazing I've always wondered how this was made thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us and this beers 🍺for you kind sir and thank you for teaching and passing your skills on for our future generations
Epic neon light u got there 👌 😂 where could I buy that
BTW he looks french
He is french
I feel like if i buy eqipment to start making bubble lights, it wouldn't be much of a leap to move onto this... maybe. I think I need some torches and a lot of practice tubing bahahaha :)
Masterclass
salute sir, even your english got an accent, the info given still can be understand. regards from malaysia. :-)
neon is so cool and unique! It's also used to make artworks ;)
so cool!
so Basicly to get the different shades of the red color one should fill the tube at different concentration of the nobel gas ? i love this handcraft
Absolutely amazing! I've always loved the aesthetic on neon signs, and now I get to see how they're made!
This is my dream job. Just found out. I need all those supplies and idk where to even start
Start by applying for a job in already existing company
Great video and very good at explaining what he was doing
Sou vitreiro também muito bonito a art do Neon parabéns meu amigo 👍
I love the Italian accent ! 👍
It might be a little inefficient but a custom water cooler pc with neon sign like bends and designs would be dope.
hey your channel is amazing .keep up the good work.
Fascinating, but man it looks tedious. Takes a true artist to make it work.
SO MUCH TALENT 👌
I just found my career.... This is what I'm meant to do 😍
Did you follow this career path 3 years later?
wow awesome video! I've learned a lot of things! I love neon lamps and i think it's art : D
Supper!! I like
I have awaits loved neon lights.. This video is just amazing
I do lampwork rn I learned as a pipemaker but I'm looking to transition to neon sculpture and light fixtures. I work in a small space. 7 x 9 ish. I'm wondering what the best quality bombarder I can get is that will fit in my workshop. I'm thinking I can use my bench torch as well a the dual headed hand torch you have. Cheers from the state of maine
i like this guy
thank you sir..its really helps me to explain to my kids with this video.
thank you for uploading!
Love this video. Thumbs up.
Superb uncle
Awesome
I. lOVE. THIS.
this would be such a cool job
This guy is a proper talented neon bender, not many left now. This Industry is being taken over by faux neon and led lights which just don't look the same as real neon. L.e.d.s just aint a patch on a real neon sign and you don't need any special talent to make one. But for real neon with it's bright and strong colours you need talent and patience to learn the process. It aint easy to learn and not many are given the chance. Iv'e seen many people give up after a year or so and must admit it took me six years to become good at all the different skills involved and 10years to be very confident at it. So why would you bother these days when any idiot can stick an L.E.D. down... and lets face it lot's of people are confusing this medium with Led, rope light, or even EL wire.. all faux neon products that will not supply you with any ambiance and certainly won't light a room up with them. real neon is still king and can be fully recycled whereas the rest will be binned when they have had there short life. Buy a proper glass neon filled lights and you will have them for a lifetime... I personaly use them in every room in my house and I never buy new bulbs. They haven't been replaced in over 16 years. You never see any body bragging about having a led sign that they have had for many years, passed down thru the family from the previous generation because they end up in the bin after 6 months. NEON IS STILL THE BEST, thats why everyone is trying to imitate it.
👌
wow that was amazing from you !!
Super intéressant, merci !
Neon is awesome
I would love to learn how to do this and to blow glass.
incredible!!!
I hope they made more video it's very impressive
great! we did a quike version... how neon is made!
Neon Family is awesome. I'm looking forward to work with this 🔥 fire scare me. I hope I can make great designs like you.Ralphode and Marshella Roddock Thompson Campbell
Loved it!
Really you top man nice work 👍
for next time an elephant would be really cute if you can make it
Art and science combined I think.
ProgrammableBoyCZ no,
The oldest unit in my collection is from the 40s.