Processes, Techniques and Specific Knowledge Areas

__Coldworking

• Polishing
• Sandblasting
• Etching/acid-etching
• Cutting
• Engraving
• Gluing
• Laminating
• Glass drilling
  
  __Hot glassworking
  
• Italian cane techniques
• Murrine
• Italian style blowing using a garage
• Mold-blowing (2-part plaster, 1-part hot oven, metal, wood)
• Color dropping
• Bitworking
• Solid sculpting
• Blown sculpting
• Traditional vessel-making
• Production
• Assisting
• Gaffing
• Powders
• Graal
• Paradise Painting
• 3D design
• Production glassware
  
  __Hot and kiln casting
  
• Molten glasscasting
• Slumping
• Optical slump casting
• Glass fusecasting/fusing
• Refractory/sand/metal/graphite moldmaking
• Frit casting
• Lost wax
• Plaster casting
  
  __Lampworking
  
• Bead work
• Small scale glass sculpture
  
  __Stained glass
  
• Metal welding
• Lead filling
• Glass cutting
• Restoration
• Design

  __Firing/enameling glass
  __Solidworking
  __Pate de verre
  __Packing/shipping
  __Flexible shaft engraving

Materials, Equipment, and Technology

__Casting mold materials

• Bentonite loose sand
• Rigid CO2 set sand
• Graphite, steel
• Zircar shell
• Plaster silica solids
  
  __Adhesives
  
• UV glues
• Epoxy
• Caulk
• Silicone
• Flexible gel adhesives
• Generic glues
  
  __Lampworking materials
  
• oxygen-gas bench torch
• pyrex and soda lime glasses
  
  __Tools
  
• Diamond cut-off saw
• Flat/roller platen vertical belt sander
• Diamond flatting wheel
• Glass drill press
• Coolant-fed diamond band saw
• Grinding/cutting lathe
• Diamond wheel, polishing wheel
• Die grinder
• Diamond bits
• Handheld etching/grinding tools
• Sandblaster
• Recipro-lap automatic polishing machine
• Pneumatic diamond shaping tools
• Steam machine
• Steel marver
• Digitry GB4 controller
• Ultraviolet curing lamp
  
  __Facilities
  
• Garage
• Electric bell-top flash kiln
• Mobile sandcasting cart
• Gloryhole
• Casting furnace,
• Ovens (front-loading/sliding-top annealing oven, top-loading color oven, computer-controlled)
• Exact propane bench torch
• UV gluing station