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convenience and for mine in that my pages refer here and all
corrections to addresses and web pages are made here rather than
on multiple pages. Bibliography
references go straight to the book entries, in most cases. CAPITALized
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Material and Equipment Sources:
| Equipment: Abell Combustion,
Correll Furnaces, Covington Grinding,
Denver, Digitry,
Durlite Elements, Engineered
Ceramics Pots, Fireright Controls,
Fuji Controls,
Fixtures displays, E.C.
Crucibles, Giberson heads & elements,
HIS grinders, Ipsen pots,
Kanthal elements, K&S metal & tubes, Laclede
Christy pots, Metal
Supermarket, Omega thermocouples, Thorpe refactories, Wetdog equipment,
Wilton burners |
| Tools: Arrow Springs,
ARTCO, Blockhead Tools,
Cutting Edge Products, Cherrywood
Molds, CR Laurence, CRM Pipes,
Carlo Dona, Fantasil... wood molds,
Gott pads, Grainger,
Hot Glass Color, Hot Block blocks,
HUB tools, Hot Head,
McMaster-Carr tools, MSC metals &
tools, Moore tools, Putch tools,
Red Hot Metal, Inc.,
Somaca tools, Spiral Arts tools,
Steinert tools, |
| Glass, Color, & Chemicals: Best
Mold Mix, Budget
Casting, Blenko, Ceramics
Database, CR Loo,
Delphi, Eclectic Products Glues,
Fairview Glass, Gabbert Glass,
Hxtal glue,
Kerr Labs investment, Northwest Pitchworks,
Olympic Color, Roseco casting &
metal, Spruce Pine batch,
Thompson enamels,
Zircar moldables |
| Museums, Supplies, etc.: Corning
Museum, Elliott's Hardware,
Carlyn gallery, Glass Dynamics LLC, Kittrell/Riffkind Gallery,
Teccor Electronics, Texas Sign
supplies, Woodworkers |
Alphabetical Sources List
- ABELL
- Abell Combustion, P.O. Box 198, Kimberton PA 19442-0198, 610-827-9137,
Fax:610-827-7156
www.abellcombustion.com abell@fast.net is a supplier of combustion trains - plumbing, valves
and controls - for furnaces. They have been around glass for a number of
years. Use major brands of equipment.
- ARROW
- Arrow Springs, 4301A Product Drive Shingle
Springs, CA 95682, Phone: (800) 899-0689,
Local Phone: (530)
677-1400 Fax: (530) 677-1600, E-mail: flameon@ArrowSprings.com , Hours Monday - Friday 9 AM
- 5 PM Pacific Time, Arrow Springs Primarily a supplier of
lampworking equipment, a useful source when needed,
including the Hot Head Torch.
- ARTCO
- Malcolm W. Spann, 348 North 15th St., San Jose, CA 95112,
408-288-7978, http://www.artcoinc.com/
Hand tools- Essemce shears
www.essemce.se, diamond shears, jacks,
tweezers, & footing tools; heat resistant gloves;
- BCS
- Budget Casting Supply,
Foundry Metals, 60
East 40th Ave - Unit C, San Mateo, California 94403, Phone: 209-694-8601,
East Coast Fax: 419-710-9609, West Coast Fax: 209-694-8601 e-mail:
Paul@BudgetCastingSupply.com
- BEST
- Best Mold Mix for Kiln fusing and sagging. Stated to last hundreds
of firings. Not tried by MF. Also sell plastic molds for common
mold shapes for using the mix Best
Mix Mold Mix Aquila Glass School, 1628 N Columbia Blvd, Unit A,
Portland, OR 97217 503-240-9449
info@aquilaartglass.com 2006-09-21
- BLENKO
- Maker of glassware, supplier of Dalle de verre, glass slabs of colored
glass for architectural work
Blenko Glass Company, Inc. P.O. Box 67, Milton, WV 25541,
Phone: (304) 743-9081, Fax: (304) 743-0547 2004-04-04
- BLKHD
- Blockhead Tools,
www.blockheadtools.com, 1-888-329-0263 Fax: 877-471-0362 Standard
and custom computer generated fruit wood molds and blocks in several styles.
Distributed by Olympic Color Rods, Seattle 2003 prices:
10 cm block (about 4") $62.40. Standard molds include many styles of
glassware, tumblers, amphorae, seafloats, etc.
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- CGS
- Correll Glass Studio, 66 Hidden Ledge, Conway MA 01341,
413-369-4283, fax 413-369-4769, ccorrell@crocker.com
http://www.correllglass.com
Garage tools, cork pads, furnace construction & consulting
- CEP
- see Red Hot Metal
- CERAMDB
- Ceramic materials database reference to companies that supply things.
http://ceramic-materials.com/cermat/material/a.html 2008-03-14
- CMOG
- Corning Museum of Glass (and Rakow Library) www.cmog.org
- CMS
- Walter Evans, Cherrywood Mold Shop, 2725 Mill Branch Rd.,
Kenova WV 25530, 304-453-2279 Wooden tools, blocks and
molds for glassblowing (molds mostly discontinued 2002) See
Hot Block for successor
- COVington Engineering
- Covington Engineering, source for lapidary
and glass grinding machines 715
West Colton Avenue -- P.O. Box 35 -- Redlands, CA 92373 U.S. Toll Free
(877)793-6636 Outside U.S. 909-793-6636 Fax 909-793-7641 Email us at
sales@covington-engineering.com
http://www.covington-engineering.com/
- CRLaurence
- C.R.
Laurence Company, Glazing, Industrial, Construction and
Automotive Supplier C.R. Laurence
Company of North America,2503 East Vernon Avenue, Los
Angeles, California 90058, Phone (800) 421-6144 •
Fax (800) 262-3299, International Phone (323) 588-1281,
International Fax (323) 581-6522 cust_serv@crlaurence.com One of two major national sources (SOMACA) for equipment and materials
for the (flat) glass industry, buildings and cars. Glass
drills, grit, safety gloves, grinders, etc.
- CRLOO
- Long time suppliers of color bar and now Essemce tools, Skutt kilns,
etc.
http://www.crloo.com/index.html C&R LOO, INC, 1085 Essex Ave,
Richmond, CA 94801 Phone: (510) 232-0276 FAX: (510) 232-7810 Toll Free:(800)
227-1780, Toll Free Fax:(800) 996-3939 e-mail:
glass@crloo.com
- CRM
- C.R.Machine, 30 Danforth Road, Rindge NY 03461 603-899-9871
FAX:603-899-6591 crm@monad.net
(new June 2001) www.crmachine.net
(online 2001-09-07 not complete) Nickelite high
nickel stainless steel Pipes and Punties
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- DELPHI
- It is my habit to find what seems good source of
information, even if I buy little or nothing from them.
In the past I would have gotten paper catalog and kept it
on the shelf, now I keep links. Delphi Stained Glass -
Your source for patterns, supplies and mosaics www.delphiglass.com is a good
source of all the choices for doing stained glass - windows, lamps, mosaics
- and a modest amount of lampworking stuff. Physically, they are at 3380
East Jolly Rd., Lansing, Michigan 48910, phone: (517) 394-4631, toll-free:
(800) 248-2048
- DEN
- Denver Glass Machinery, Furnaces,
Glory Holes, Annealing Ovens-Denver Glass 2800 S. Shoshone St. Englewood Co 80110 303
781-0980 / fax. 303 781-9067
- DIGITRY
- Digitry Company, Inc., 188 State Street, Suite 21, Portland, Maine
04101, 207-774-0300 FAX: 617-484-5220,
http://www.digitry.com Makes annealing and temperature controls
for glass work, GB1, GB4. 2003-10-10
- DON
- Carlo Dona, Tools for Glass Blowing, Murano - since 1923, for brochure
Spiral Arts, www.spiralarts.com or
below [sent by previous contact 2004-08-09]
- DURalite
- DURALITE, Inc., 15 School Street,
Riverton, CT 06065, Tel: (860) 379-3113 Fax: (860) 379-5879,
TOLL FREE in US: 1-888-432-8797, Duralite,
Inc. -- Heating Elements
- EDWards Industries
- Edwards Industries, PO Box 2463 103 Webster St. Pawtucket, RI 02861,
Tel: 800-599-5779 or 401-727-0380(local) Fax: 401-722-4949, E-mail:
info@edwardsind.com Graphite
blow molds.
- ELL, STORE
- Elliott's Hardware Store, 4901 Maple, Dallas Texas 75235, 214-634-9900,
www.elliottshardware.com and
Coit and Park, Plano Texas. A legend in the north Texas area, everyone
refers people to Elliott's because it is no embarrassment not to have
everything the Elliott's has since it has 100,000 SKU's (scan items)
compared to 40,000 at Home Depot. At one point, they had 5% of DFW hardware
sales with 2 stores. Also legendary for service, but personnel much reduced
in the past couple of years. I worked for the Store for 8 years to
2004 after shopping there starting a few days after arriving in Dallas in 1971.
- ENGCER
- Engineered Ceramics, P.O.
Box 365, Gilberts, Illinois 60136
Toll free: (800) 756-8794, Fax: (847) 428-0158, http://www.engineeredceramics.com/ Supplier of crucibles claimed
to have a much faster heating cycle than LaClede-Christy
They are marketed to the glass community by Pete Vanderlaan at
Guadalupe Glass Corporation, 420 Los Pinos Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87507 V:
505-471-1194 F: 505-982-4233 http://www.guadalupeglass.com/
- EPC
- ECLECTIC PRODUCTS, INC, 995 SOUTH A STREET,
SPRINGFIELD OREGON, U.S.A. 97477, Telephone: 800-767-4667
(INFORMATION) From E-6000 MSDS posting on Internet Makes
widely used adhesive sold in hardware, glass and hobby
shops. Glues & Adhesives
Eclectic Products, Inc., Willamette Valley Company,
Southern Division, 101 Dixie Mae Drive , P.O. Box 4450,
Pineville , LA 71360, Phone: (318) 640-5116 ,Fax: (800)
546-4669 [From the Adhesive and Sealants Council website.]
Company Website: http://www.wilvaco.com
ECLECTIC Products Inc. Springfield, Oregon 800-693-4667
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- FAIRVIEW
- Fairview Glass is a Maryland company dedicated to historic preservation
through salvaging and recycling antique window glass. Supplying
Restoration projects with Authentic antique window glass.
www.fairviewglass.com 2006-08-21
- FANT
- Wood molds: Fantasilaboratoriet Sodra Orsjo 210, SE-38297 Orsjo-Sweden
Phone/Fax +46(0)48120040
contact@fantlab.com
Fantasilaboratoriet - www.fantlab.com
- FIRE
- FireRight/Warner Instruments, 1320 Fulton Avenue, Mail:
PO Box 604, Grand Haven MI 49417-1534 USA,
Toll-Free: 877-842-7658, Tel: 616-842-7658, FAX: 616-842-1471,
E-mail: info@fireright.com
Site: FireRight/Warner Instruments -
Controls for Kiln, Furnaces and Test Chambers
- FIXTURES
- The Fixtures Group [Mission Valley, P.O.Box 711501, San Diego CA, 92171
(858) 292.4745, (800) 642.9929 FAX (800) 466.3920]
http://www.fixturesgroup.com/glassshelving.php is a source of brackets
and clips for building display and shelving units from tempered glass, which
they also sell. Various shapes allow rectangular or hexagonal cells as
shown on web page given. 2006-08-30
- FLYG
- E.C. Crucibles are
available through Pete VanderLaan at 354 Washington Hill Rd, Chocorua New
Hampshire. 03817 . Phone 603-323-7900 . E mail is
glassgu@earthlink.net new address 2008-03-11 sells colors, Engineered Ceramics crucibles, adhesives, etc.
2005-04-08
- FUJI
- Fuji is a brand of controller which is sold by a number of suppliers.
I bought mine from a company that changed its name and is now at
http://www.instrumart.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=4714&Redirect=ttiglobal
I use the small 50x50mm (~2x2") version. see also Digitry
- GAB
- Gabbert Cullet Co., 700 Cherry Ave. Williamstown, WV,
25187 Phone: 304-375-6435. Long time supplier of cullet (broken
glass) from the commercial glass industry (pressed glass
mostly) to artistic glassblowers. Web site features colored
cullet/slag for landscape and decorative purposes.. http://www.gabbertcullet.com/
- GALERIE
- Carlyn Galerie and annual shows "A Galerie of Glass" while
rest of year always includes glass items in seasonal shows (Valentines,
Mothers Day, etc.), 6137 Luther Lane,
Dallas TX 75225, 214-368-2828
carlyn@earthlink.net
- GLASSDYN
- Glass Dynamics, LLC, http://glassdynamicsllc.com, 2662 Hance Bridge Road, Vineland, NJ 08361
Tel: 856-205-1530 Fax: 856-507-1471 Email:sales@glassdynamicsllc.com,
A large variety of glass services, quality unknown, shown to my by a
caller, looks promising. Vineland is the next city north of Millville
in the heart of the old NJ glass industry.
- GIBERSON, JOPPA
- Dudley Giberson, Joppa Glassworks, Inc., [P.O.Box 202, Warner NH 03278
603-456-3569 FAX 603-456-2138, www.joppaglass.com] is a source for custom wound Kanthal A-1 electrical
elements (higher temp) and quiet burner heads he designed as well as great
information. He will take your description of annealer or kiln
construction and specify an element and keep a record of what he sold for
re-supply years later. His book, A
Glassblower's Companion, is a useful one to have. 2005-11-05
- GOTT
- Northern Heat, 123 Sunmills Place SE, Calgary, Alberta T2X 2R1
Canada Email: agott@northernheat.ca
403-256-6079 Fax: 403-256-8533
http://www.northernheat.ca Source of graphite based steamer pads (which
I own) and protective clothing.
HUB Glass Blowing Tools, Equipment and supplies - Gott Html
2004-04-13
- GRNGR
- Grainger, www.grainger.com major
supplier of maintenance tools, supplies and replacement parts. Best
known in glass circles for Dayton blowers used on furnaces. Big red
catalog. Outlets in major cities (ie 2 in Dallas)
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- HIS
- HIS Glassworks, Inc., 91 Webb Cove Road, Asheville, NC
28804 USA 800-914-7463, 828-254-2559, FAX 828-254-2581 http://www.hisglassworks.com/
source of diamond grinding wheels, grit, adhesives and plans for flat
grinder.
- HGCAS
- Hot Glass Color & Supply, 2227 Fifth Ave, Seattle, WA 98121,
206-448-2181, 1-886-448-1199, FAX 206-448-0469,
www.hotglasscolor.com,
Cutting Edge Products tools, Kugler Colors, Ed Schmid's books, gold leaf.
- HOTBLK
- Hot Block Tools, a new company supplying blocks and other wood tools.
quite a variety of block styles, identified by country.
http://www.hotblocktools.com
(412)-683-1700
Hotblocktools@earthlink.net by Gary Guydosh: "As a glassblower, I
understand the importance of finding the right tool. With this belief, I
want to preserve the art of handmade wooden blocks for glass. To hone my
skills, I have been working with and learning from the best, Walter Evans.
While Walter continues to make his blocks, he has encouraged me to start
making blocks on my own. Therefore, in the event that he chooses to retire,
I would like to carry on his wonderful legacy."
- HUB
- Hub Consolidated Incorporated, 988 Route 100, Weston, VT
05161, (802) 824-4255, (802) 824-4209 fax, http://www.hubglass.com,(being
rebuilt, 2001-09) tools, equipment including furnaces, kilns, glory
holes, combustion trains, benches, pipes, punties, yokes, ladles, pastorelli,
pipe cooler, pipe turner, torches, gloves. MF This equipment is probably
very solid, but the catalog gives me sticker shock. Also furnaces are
priced without combustion train, which is priced without blower and burner
head. Pipes sampled are very heavy and very coarse textured outside.
2003-07-09
- HOTHD
-
The Hot Head torch is a
oversized version of the tank mounted torches used for copper pipe
soldering. It is noisy and gets hot to hold, but it is very hot - I
use mine for braising, melting small Pyrex tube, etc. It is widely
used in teaching beadmaking. Contact Cindy Jenkins at Hot Head Glass
in Chicago. “For more information, or to sign up, email us at
beadmakers@aol.com, call us at 800-FIRED UP (1-800-347-3387), fax us at
708-763-0795, or write us at 1218 N. Grove Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302. We look
forward to hearing from you!”
- HXTAL
- Conservation Resources International L.L.C., 8000-H
Forbes Place, Springfield, VA 22151, 1-800-634-6932, Fax:
703-321-0629, Vulpex and Orvus Detergents, Hxtal Epoxy
widely used water clear UV curing epoxy. Conservation
Resources International Home Page
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- IPSEN
- Ipsen Ceramics, 325 John St, PO. Box 420,
Pecatonica, IL 61063, 815-239-2385, one of two long time
makers of crucibles, with Laclede Christie, that
are good to the glass, but considered brittle and
requiring slow warm up.
- K&S
- K&S ENGINEERING, 6917 West 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60638 Tel:
(773)586-8503 Fax: (773) 586-8556
http://www.ksmetals.com Producers of telescoping brass, stainless steel,
copper and aluminum tubing, sheet and rod, available in many hobby and
hardware stores. SS tubing is 304 alloy in 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8,
7/16, 1/2, rod is 303 alloy 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 7/16, 1/2; 302 alloy in
small. I have used for molding knobs and sword handle. Brass
tubing makes bearings and mechanisms for wind whirlies.
Do-It-Best listing 2003-10-31, 2011-02-22
- KANTHAL GLOBAR
- KANTHAL GLOBAR, 3425
Hyde Park Boulevard, Niagara Falls, NY 14302-0339, Toll
Free: 877-GLOBAR-2, Phone: (716) 286-7600, Fax: (716) 286-7601,
E-mail:
sales.globar@sandvik.com,
Globar(r)/Silit(r) Silicon
Carbide Electric Heating Elements from Kanthal Globar renamed source of Kanthal
high temp version of nichrome and even higher temp (and
trickier to use) Globar silicon carbide elements.
- KERR
- Kerr Labs [KerrLab Corporation, 1717 West Collins Orange, CA 92867,
Phone:(714) 516-7650 Fax (Order):
(714) 516-7649] KerrLab |
Jewelry] is a major supplier of wax and investment for casting jewelry
and other metals. Rather than experimenting with various mixes
reported in articles, I just buy the stuff in 33 pound (15kg) boxes.
Sold through dealers which are listed on the site. I use
Roseco in Dallas because I can pick it up and save
shipping of the heavy stuff. 2005-11-05
- KING
- King Architectural Metals,
http://www.kingmetals.com/ Dallas, Baltimore, Los Angeles. 800-542-2379
Wondrous source of things steel - all those grapes and leaves and stuff you
see welded to gates, plus all the structural stuff plus a lot of interesting
shapes - hollow steel and solid iron balls, perfect rings made of square
1/2" tubing, balusters with twisted welded iron work. 2004-01-24
- KITRIF
- Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass,
Village on the Parkway, 5100 Beltline Road, #820, Dallas,
TX 75240, Phone: 972.239.7957, Fax: 972.239.7998, eMail:
artglass@kittrellriffkind.com.,
Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass has a Web site located at
www.kittrellriffkind.com
Gallery for blown glass mostly, studio with stained and
fused glass supplies, beadmaking classes. web addr.changed 2006-04-04
- LACLD
- Laclede Christy, PO. Box 580, Owensville, MO
65066, 314-437-2132, one of two long time
makers of crucibles, with Ipsen, that are good to the glass,
but considered brittle and requiring slow warm up.
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- MCM
- McMaster-Carr
http://www.mcmaster.com/ Major supplier of tools, supplies and
replacement parts, competing with Grainger.
Almost very building and company maintenance person will have their catalog
at hand. Major centers in Atlanta, Cleveland, NYC area, Los Angeles.
- METSUP
- Metal Supermarkets, 2010 Century Center Blvd., Irving TX 75062 and other
locations nationally. Apparently a franchise operation
www.metalsupermarkets.com with indoor
rack storage of metal that can be sold in less than full pieces. Promising
no minimum charge, cut and ready, Aluminum, Stainless, Tool steel, Brass &
Copper, bearing bronze, etc. Bending and plate cutting. Had
5/8" square tubing when everyone else in Dallas said it would have to
be ordered from Houston. 2004-01-24
- MSC
- MSC Industrial Supply
Co. http://www.mscdirect.com/
is a national source of machinists supplies, tools and
equipment. The catalog is wrist breaking, but it is
available on line and the site is generally easy to
search although the first term to come to mind for a non-machinist
may not be the one in the index (e.g. all-thread vs
threaded rod). Centers in Dallas and many other cities.
- MRE
- Jim Moore,
PO Box 1151, Port Townsend WA 98368, 360 379 2936
His Site Some of the best American jacks, parchoffi,
paddles, shears, tweezers, crimps & prunts, puffers, pi divider, fin mold,
ring tool, metal blocks. Address & phone number changed 2003-10-31
- NWP
- Northwest Pitchworks,
http://www.northwestpitchworks.com/, 1317 Roland St. • Bellingham, WA
98226 • 360-715-1772, resin pitch instead of asphalt pitch for forming metal
Repoussé
2003-12-24
- OLY
- Olympic Color Rods, 818 John Street,
Seattle, WA 98109, Tel: 206.343.7336 or 800.445.7742, Fax:
206.343.2292, Email: phil@glasscolor.com
Olympic Color Rods - Huge inventory of glassblowing supplies
including glass color rods from Gaffer, Reichenbach and
Zimmermann., Glass Colors - Dichroic Waterglass;
Gaffer Casting, Opals & Trans; Kugler Opaque, &
Trans; Reichenbach Casting, Opaque, & Trans;
Zimmermann Opaque & Trans; Precious Metal Leaf;
Spiral Arts Gathering Irons, Punty, & Blowpipes;
Blockhead Tools, & Blocks; Correll Paddles
& Tools; Jim Moore Tools; Steinert Molds; The Battle-Axe
(heat shield); Footing Tools; Exact Torches
- OMEGA
- Omega supplies measuring instruments and controllers of
many kinds, often similar items from different
manufacturers relabeled as Omega. They have reputation
for being higher priced, but my experience has been not -
the Love Controls 1/4 DIN controller was the same price
from Love as the one from Omega - although other brands
may be cheaper. Their Temperature Handbook - a catalog
with a fair amount of extra data - is a good source for a
glassblower. 1-800-TC-OMGA or http://www.tcomega.com
They have nichrome and Kanthal-like wire listed as "resistance
heating wire"
Thermocouple extension wire
http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=EXGG_KX_WIRE&Nav=temh07
mini-connector
http://www.omega.com/pptst/SMPW-CC.html
wire
http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=EXGG_KX_WIRE&Nav=temh07
- ORR - Keith Orr Blowpipes
- http://www.keithorrblowpipes.com/
Skeels Glass/Keith Orr Blowpipes,101 South Coombs D4,
Napa CA 94559, Tel/Fax 707.253.2287, Tel Toll Free 888
633 9708
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- PALMER
- Palmer Tools, 10506 Crestridge Dr., Minnetonka MN 55305-1610,
952-546-6025, starglass01@aol.com "since 1974" Jacks, parchoffi, tweezers,
diamond shears, steam stick, wood tools, pipe, punty, paddles, footing tool.
MF: jacks are blunt ends; short tip tweezers also through
Spruce Pine Batch
- PARAD
- Paradise Paints, prepared enamels for painting glass and firing.
Paradise Paints
email PARADISE & CO..
Phone: (530)872-5020 Fax: (530)872-5052 Address:
2902 Neal Rd. Paradise CA, 95969 2006-03-30
- PARA
- Paragon Industries, Inc. Mesquite Texas, 2011
South Town East Blvd., Mesquite, Texas 75149, 972-288-7557,
1-800-876-4328 Paragon
Industries, Inc. - http://www.paragonweb.com/index.cfm
Makes kilns and supplies items for warm glass work,
including a kiln shelf wash that I like a lot.
- PAOLI
- Paoli Clay, mentioned severally throughout this site as source of glass
tools, has gotten out of the glass tool business.
- PUTCH
- Putsch, P.O. Box 5128, Asheville NC 28813 828-684-0671 1-800-847-8427
FAX:828-684-4894 http://www.putsch.com/Seiten/PPWerkz_e.html
?German company site, area code changed 2003-07-09 MF Very stiff jacks.
Jacks, tweezers, yokes, shears, pipes, punty, gathering irons.
- REDHOT
- Red Hot Metal, Inc (formerly Cutting Edge Products) 24 Bellarmine Court,
Suite 1, Chico CA 95928, 530-342-1970
www.redhotmetal.net Davide
Salvadore jacks, Dante Marioni & Roger Parramore shears. 316
stainless steel and 4130 carbon steel pipes with 309 SS heads, shears with
rod handles edge welded to flat head, spring steel jacks with oval blades,
metal paddles, tweezers with a brass end that I don't like - heavy. Cane
cutter. Discount on pipe and punty set. 2008-06-09
- ROSECO
- Roseco Inc. / Dallas, 972-991-9731, 800-874-9436
www.roseco.com is my source for
Kerr Labs investment, wax, and other casting supplies
for lost wax work. They are listed on the
Kerr Labs site
They are wholesale only and have reasonable rules to avoid the hassles of
retail operations. I walk in to pickup my supplies to save shipping on the
fairly heavy investment. The catalog can be requested on line and has
a huge selection of tools, equipment, supplies, and books as well as jewelry
findings and raw precious metals if that interests you. 2006-08-23
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SOMACA
- Sommer & Maca, Effective March 20, 2008, owned by C.R.Laurence (CRL)
for equipment and materials for the (flat) glass industry, buildings and
cars. Glass drills, grit, safety gloves, grinders, etc.
- SPI
- Spiral Arts, 2940 Westlake Avenue North, Suite #100, Seattle, Washington
98109 206-768-9765
fax:206-768-9766,
http://www.spiralarts.com fmetz@spiralarts.com
"over 30 varieties of blowpipes, counterweighted
punties, and gathering irons" [GLASS Mag. Suppliers
Directory] Seen in 2003 at GAS, following a new trend for (cheaper?)
carbon steel tubing bodies with stainless ends. Brochure has very good
graphics showing which steel where, including pipes with 5" of SS tubing
near head. 310 SS heads.
- SPRUCE
- Spruce Pine Batch Co. PO Box 159 2490
Burnsville Highway (19E) Spruce Pine,NC 28777 Phone: 828-765-9876
Fax: 828-765-9888 E-Mail: spbatch@vol.com which goes direct to Tom and
spbatch@yahoo.com that goes to the office, www.sprucepinebatch.com/ new
e-mails 2005-03-08
- STI
- Steinert Industries, 1000 Mogadore Rd., Kent OH 44240 (www.steinertindustries.com)
216-678-0028 Sets standard for blow pipes in USA, also
provides optic molds and other tools.
- SWEST
-
(2003-06) Swest is being
folded into another company, Stuller,
www.stuller.com with different rules, wholesale, (and in a different town.
More later). I now use Roseco because Stuller
has very strange wholesale requirements. 2005-11-05
- TECCOR
-
Teccor Electronics, 1800 Hurd Drive, Irving, Texas 75038
USA, 972 580 7777 Fax 972 550 1309
Teccor Electronics Home Page
A maker of SCR's and Triacs, solid state control devices, that supplies
good
application notes on using them. Now Part of Littelfuse
2003-10-10
- TSS
- Texas Sign Supply Co, 304 N Walton
St, Dallas, TX 75226, 214-741-3324, Fax: 214-748-3167, a
source for neon tubing (soft) and gold leaf.
- THOMP
- Thompson Enamels, 650 Colfax Avenue Bellevue, KY 41073 USA P.O. Box 310
Newport, KY 41072 USA
Phone (859) 291-3800 Fax (859) 291-1849 1-800-545-2776
sales@thompsonenamel.com
http://www.thompsonenamel.com/welcome/main.htm Lead
free enamels requiring firing to be used on various glass formulas as well
as various metals. In business for years, not sure why I didn't list before.
2006-03-07
- THORPE
- Thorpe Products, 2200 Regency Dr, Irving, 75062 - (214) 638-8990, just
east of Texas Stadium
Supplier of insulating refractory
products, blanket, brick, cement, etc., now (2002) carrying IPS (formerly AP Green)
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- WETDOG
- Wet Dog Glass, 3924 Conti St., New Orleans, LA 70119, phone: (504)
483-1195, fax: (504)483-3059,
hotstuff@wetdogglass.com
http://www.wetdogglass.com Equipment - furnaces, glory holes, garages,
pipe warmers - and tools for use with these - heat shield, marver,
bench. since 1996.
- WHITEH, BOOKEX [No longer in business - 2008]
- Whitehouse Books, The Book Exchange,
www.whitehouse-books.com
whitehouse-books@stny.rr.com
P.O. Box 16, Corning, NY 14830, 607.936.8536, open by appointment only,
excellent source for glass books, new and used. 2006-12-27
- WILTON
- Paul Wilton, Wilton Technologies, 2932 Via Loma Vista, Escondido, CA
92029
<
paulwilton@earthlink.net >or call at 1-800-928-7637 or call locally in
Escondido (San Diego) at 760-745-5956 fax 760-745-1944
Wilton Technologies: Ceramic Burner
Nozzles: Furnaces & Glory Holes
- WWS
- Woodworker's Supply 1-800-654-9292 (505-821-0574), source
of cherry wood dowels and transfer balls for yokes.
- ZIR
- ZIRCAR Refractory Composites, Inc , P.O. Box 489,
Florida, NY 10921, (845) 651-2200 Fax
(845)- 651-1515 ZIRCAR
Refractory Composites, Inc: Luminar moldable
materials for glass fusing & molding.
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Online Reference Links
- World Art Glass WAG
- A reference site with links to many glass resources.
http://www.worldartglass.com
major source of links to galleries, studios, museums, schools, various
retailers and other links, including us.
- Glass Online
- Self described as the "World's leading glass industry portal" it has a
very busy home page and some useful information. Look down the left side
for information links
http://www.glassonline.com/index.asp 2006-12-10
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Bibliographic References
-> Site Bibliography contains book reviews & descriptions
- AG-M >
- American Glass. George S and Helen McKearin, Crown
Publishers, NY, 1941, 1948 (twelfth printing 1956)
BIBLIO.HTM#AGMCK
- ETG
- Everyday Things: Glass,
Suzanne Slesin, Daniel Rozensztrich, Stafford Cliff
Photographs by Marie-Pierre Morel, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
New York, www.abramsbooks.com
2001 Book
- GANTAD (Source)
- Glass, Art Nouveau to Art Deco,
Victor Arwas, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New
York, 1987 Glossary
- GAWH >
- Glass, A World History, Fritz Kampfer and Klaus G. Beyer,
translated by Dr.Edmund Launert, New York Graphic
Society, 1966 BIBLIO.HTM#GAWH
- GGNJ
- The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey, Adeline Pepper, Charles
Scribner's Sons, NY, 1971, ISBN 684-10459-8
BIBLIO.HTM#GGNJ
- GGW
- Glass and Glassware, George Savage, Octopus Books,
London, Dist in US Crescent, div. of Crown 1973, ISBN: 0-7064-0143-3
BIBLIO.HTM#GGW
- GLASS
- Glass Magazine, quarterly journal from UrbanGlass, 718-625-3685, 647
Fulton St., Brooklyn NY 11217,
magazine@urbanglass.org
www.urbanclass.org resolutely refuses to cover technique, looks at
philosophy and design. 2005-01-05
- GL5K
- Glass 5,000 Years, Edited by Hugh Tait.
biblio.htm#GLASS5000. 2005-11-28
- GMOM
- Glass Magazine article, The Murano Mystique, Winter 2000,
p.30, quoting glossary of the catalog of the show
Memories of Murano.
- IGCB
- The Illustrated Guide to Collecting Bottles, Cecil
Munsey, Hawthorn Books, NY 1970, besides bottles,
discusses molds with pictures from collection and samples
of tools used to make bottles. Glossary
from Illustrated Guide to Collecting Bottles
BIBLIO.HTM#IGCB
- NEGG
- New England Glass and Glassmaking, Kenneth M. Wilson,
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., NY 1972, "An Old Sturbridge
Village Book" ISBN 0- 690-58075-4 NEGG.HTM
BIBLIO.HTM#NEGG
- OED
- Oxford English Dictionary, a huge classic old work with
specific dated references to virtually all the meanings
of all the words in the English language at its publication. 23 volumes, or
the 2 volume tiny print version I have.
- OGP
- Old Glass Paperweights, Their Art, Construction, and
Distinguishing Features, Evangeline H. Bergstrom, Crown
Publishers, 1940,47 2nd printing 1948
BIBLIO.HTM#OGP
- P5060 >
- Popular 50's & 60's Glass, Leslie Piña, Schiffer
Publishing Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-88740-829-X
schiffer.htm
- RHODES
- Kilns, Design, Construction,
and Operation, Daniel Rhodes, Chilton Book Co., Radnor PA, 1968
Apparently THE design reference on kilns
- SCHMID-A
- Advanced Glassworking Techniques, Edward T. Schmid, Glass Mt. Press,
Bellingham WA ISBN0-9638728-1-8 biblio.htm#AGT
- TYABG >
- Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Helen &
George McKearin, Crown Publishers 1949, 50
BIBLIO.HTM#TYABG
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