Glass Notes

About the new, fully illustrated, and updated Glass Notes version 4.0

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.

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

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This is the all new, completely re-written Glass Notes

Glass Notes has been completely upgraded with fully illustrated, new chapters on batching, fuming, casting, annealing, fusing, pâte 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 pâte de verre. Pete VanderLaan tells us how to batch
glass and set up a batch room.

Dr. Frank Woolly presents us with information on stress and what happens when glass goes bad and what caused it. If you're a sand caster,
I reveal a new trick on how to achieve clean glass surfaces. All the other sections have been rewritten with new illustrations, charts, and
photographs. Day tanks, pot furnaces, annealing ovens, glory holes, a garage, a pipe cooler, Tom Ash's square glory hole, the ever
popular HUB IFB glory hole — it's all there in the new Glass Notes.

Sources for tools and all sorts of materials for your glass studio have been totally rewritten and expanded to include Websites and e-mail
contacts. Those of you who have the previous edition of Glass Notes and asked about the index can rest easy knowing that it's where it
should have been: at the back of the book. This edition of Glass Notes has taken me a long time to write and compile, but I think you will
find it worth the wait.