Category: Glass

How do you repair broken base of of piece?

If you have a broken piece of glass come on into one of our locations if you are in Colorado Springs.  You can learn more here. Our shop can only fix borosilicate glass.

Unbreakable glass is now a thing. What is it actually made of?

Well, kinda.  All glass can break.  That is nature.  The thicker it is, and if it is mixed with some other mineral it a be tougher.

Where is most raw glass made?

Raw glass is made all over on planet earth.  Glass is basically just sand.  The big secret is where does the raw sand, or cullet come from?  There are rumors out there that the China color is used for some cullet in American colors.  Big thing is if it is re manipulated here in the …

How do you make a very detailed implosion marble?

We can make detailed implosion marbles, but they are not most of the in-house blowers “thing”. If we want to put an implosion marble on a rig, we would sometime collaborate with one.

How easy or hard is it to make a new glass color.

Depending on your knowledge of the glass and what minerals do, making a new color is easy.  But to make it over and over is hard.  Also, it takes a long time and good equipment to make good quality glass. The new line of Elev8 Premier Butter Color is a way of making a new …

how to clean the resin out of a bowl without scraping?

We think the best and safest way to clean your bowl is to let is sit overnight in a Super Soaker.  If you do this regularly you will have a nice clean bowl that will not take forever and a pain to clean

IS there such thing as glow in the dark glass? Not UV reactive.

No.  There is a powder that some blowers can successfully apply to make the glass glow. This piece is an example of glower powder inside the glass.

In order to make a cremation pendant does it have to be a specific one or can you do a custom?

We can make a lot of different things with the ashes of a loved one.  See what we have here for some ideas.  If you know, ask us and we will be honored to help with this.  The cost is $120 an hour including materials. See more on cremation glass and what you need for …

why did my glitter pipe break in my garage?

its filled with water and the water froze and expanded and broke the glass

For cremation glass how much do you need to make it?

Cremation glass does not need a lot.  A teaspoon is more than enough most of the time. See our cremation glass here. Learn about Cremation Glass here Learn about Pet Cremation Glass here You will need to fill out this form and send the glass to us when you choose to have this made for …