Glass Notes

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The author and other experts in the field demonstrate in easy to understand language and illustrations all about building and maintaining a modern glass studio. Glass Notes has been the glass studio bible since 1996. Listed below is the information found between the covers.

Glass Notes Version 4.0 has been completely upgraded from Version 3 with fully illustrated new chapters on batching, fuming, casting, annealing, fusing, pate de verre, sand casting, and more. You will also find illustrated information on furnace heat recuperation written by the two experts in the field, Charlie Correll and Hugh Jenkins. Alicia Lomné has written a fabulous section on pate de verre. Pete VanderLaan tells us how to batch glass and set up a batch room. Dr. Frank Woolley presents us with information on stress and what happens when glass goes bad and what caused it. If your a sand caster I reveal a new trick on how to achieve clean glass surfaces. All the other sections have been rewritten with new and upgraded illustrations, charts, and photographs. Illustrated how-to build day tanks, pot furnaces, annealing ovens, glory holes, a garage, a battery powered pipe cooler, Tom Ash's square glory hole, the ever popular HUB IFB glory hole, it's all there in the new Glass Notes. Where to purchase tools and all sorts of materials for your glass studio has been totally re-written and expanded to include web sites and e-mail contacts. Need to buy a furnace liner, click here.

What you will find in Glass Notes and how to build it

Introduction to Batching Your own Glass
Glass Compatibility, Glass Colorants, Calculating Linear Expansion
Annealing Charts, Determining A.T., Controllers, Annealing Castings, Stress & Compatibility
Casting, All Kinds of Molds & Mold Formulas, Sand Casting, Kiln Casting, Fusing
All About Refractories, Bricks, And Insulation
Building All Types of Furnaces, Heat Recuperation
How to Build Different Types of Glory Holes, Fiber, IFB, Square Hole, Build A Garage
Burner Systems, Flame Safety, Studio Safety, Exhaust Systems, Build to Code
Building Annealers, IFB, Skamol Insulation, Roll-Out Oven, Electrical Information
Adhesives, Enameling, Scavo, Mold Separator, Fuming (Iridizing), Color-Bar Breaker
Battery Powered, Foot operated Pipe Cooler, Benches, Calculating Make-Up Air, CFM, Diamond Drill Speeds
An Extensive list of Suppliers of Materials and Equipment for the Glass Studio
Letters to Dr. Glass (some funny stuff)

Glass Notes

A reference for the glass artist