Ya, good luck unless the blower told you. Black could be from 5 differnt glass manufacturers. Most of the glass made by Elev8 will have the colors listed on the product page on the website. If it is a forign made piece it will be US Color Companies Northstar (our favorite and oldest) Glass Alchemy …
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Yes, as long as the bit is made with diamonds. Many carvers use a diamond-tipped bit to carve their art into the glass. It is best to do this with water running over the glass to keep the glass dust down.
There are many different styles, but essentially an ice catch is part of the water pipe that allows ice to be put in without it hitting your downstream or percs. The pinch style is probably the most popular, where the glassblower puts in a few indentations near the mouthpiece that will hold the ice up. …
The blower will start with clear or some color they love. If the blower is starting with clear and do it completely from scratch they will add minerals to the glass and mix it. This takes a long time to do. Many times glass sits in a crucible for days so the minerals can mix …
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Yes, we can make a custom doob tube. It would be much like a test tube. We can order parts to have threads, or we can use a cork to seal it. This costs $100 an hour to produce.
Very carefully. The blower will use what are called braces to hold the glass while they work it. If you are referring to a spinning marble, the “hing” is heated and moved so as not to melt the marble and holder together. The HING is usually an uptake tube.
Glass is made from sand. The main difference is where the glass is made from. In this industry, the preferred glass is Shotte glass and it is made in Germany. Borosilicate glass made in the USA is called US 33 and many blowers will not use it as it is manufactured with some kind of …
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A splash guard is a piece of glass inside a waterpipe designed to keep water from touching your lips or mouth. Sometimes they are made out of percolators that are raised way above water level or look like empty dome percs near the mouthpiece. These are especially effective with percolators that stack bubbles, as the …
This is a technique used by a blower that has dots on top of dots.
The term thick, medium or heavy wall has to do with how thick the glass is. On average this is what it is. Thin wall is 1mm-2mm thick Standard or Medium wall is 2.2mm-3.5mm thick Heavy or Thick walled is 5mm – 7mm Super Heavy is 9mm thick