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Back-issues: Volume 10 Index |
April/May, 1997 - Vol. 10, No. 6.
- Lampworker Rex Cravat
- Repetitive Strain Injuries
- The Bead Column: Unfinished Business
- AT THE LAMP
- GAS '97 April 10 -13
- Summer Flameworking Workshops
- Workshops at Mickelsen Studios!
- L&K Tooling - Howard Davis Machine Shop is Reborn!
- New Source for Dichroic Pyrex
- Crystal-Clear 33 Update
- A Winner At Last
- Glassified Ads
- Workshop Calendar
- AT THE LAMP This is the last of four interviews that I did with lampworkers who were directly involved with the development of borosilicate colored glass on the west coast from 1968 to the present. I started with Elsie Burton, widow of John Burton who started it all in the sixties. I then talked to Jeff Spencer who apprenticed with John and was involved in the experiments at Pepperdine College that produced the first color formulas.
Last issue I interview Suellen Fowler who is arguably the most famous descendant of the John Burton method of lampworking and who was also directly involved at Pepperdine.
This issue, I completed the story by speaking to Paul Trautman, founder of NorthStar Glassworks, the world's foremost manufacturer of colored borosilicate glass. Paul was introduced to lampworking by Suellen and the formulas she shared with him formed the foundation that he later developed into the formulas for the current palette of NorthStar colors.- The Bead Column: Marking Your Beads, Part 2
- Photo #1 Components of the Vibrating Sifter.
- Photo #2 Assembled Sifter Before Attaching Bottle.
- Photo #3 Side View Showing Attached Bottle.
- Figure #1 The left hand drawing represents a can with the top removed. Two cuts have been made in the bottom and one cut has been made running the length of the can. The right hand drawing shows the frit catcher after only one side of the can has been folded open as shown by the arrows.
- MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES There are numerous obscure sources for lampworking tools and materials. That is why nearly all lampworkers have at least one gadget which is unique.
- Photo #1 Three of the tools described in the article. Starting at the top: a Squeeze and Pop Glass Cutter; a single-cut flat file which has been resharpened several times by grinding the edge facing the camera; and finally a home-made carbide glass knife made from a replacement paint-scraper blade
- Edgar Wheeler, best known for his book, "Scientific Glassblowing," passed away at his retirement community in Chico, California September 16, 1996.
- A Case for Flameworking The professional struggle of each glass maker affects not only his or her private career, but also the development of the studio glass movement as a whole.
- Photo #1 "Enlightenment"
mounted on Russian jasper stone sphere 40.5H x 20.5H x 18.5W cm. Price: $6000.00- Glassified Ads
- Workshop Calendar
- Profile of British Lampworker Fred Morse
- The Bead Column More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Glass Beadmaking
- AT THE LAMP For the past three columns, I have been interviewing key figures
in the evolution of flameworking on the west coast during the
sixties and seventies. This month, I spoke to Suellen Fowler- VIDEO REVIEW Paul J. Stankard
- Workshop Calendar
- Glassified Ads
- ...and other news and features
- Tools From The Garbanstangle Man
- Photo #1 Spinning Tool Caddy with tool assortment.
- Photo #2 Petal Press and Leaf Press makes a great flower.
- Photo #3 Many style leaves off of one press.
- Photo #4 Penny Pinchers, Petal Press, Tail Press, Texture Tools,
Fish Scale, Face Mold, Leaf Mold and Pointy Tool.- Photo #5 This makes a great face - just add hair - great for cherubs and fairies.
- Use of a Drill for Glasswork
- Drawing #1 Figure 1.
- Drawing #2 Figure 2.
- Drawing #3 Figure 3.
- AT THE LAMP 'Soft' Borosilicate Glass - an update
- The Bead Column Toru Sato.
- Photo #1 A completed core on its mandrel.
- Photo #2 A completed core-formed vessel
- Drawing #1 Half shaped vessel out of sheet metal.
- Drawing #2 Home-made lathe.
- Workshop Calendar
- Glassified Ads
- AT THE LAMP
- The Bead Column.
- The Vagabond Lampworker On The Road Again
- A Conversation with Elsie Burton. I had the good fortune of having a brief conversation with Elsie Burton, widow of the late John Burton. John Burton is generally regarded as the father of modern artistic lampworking and was the author of one the first and finest definitive books on artistic lampworking, "Glass - Hand-Blown, Sculptured, Colored - Philosophy and Method".
- Photo #1 Elsie in her livingroom after Hurricane Iniki, 1994.
- ...and other news and features
- Antique Glass: Methods and Techniques The Art of Pressed Glass.
- Glass Line is now Entering our 10th yearof publication.
- The Queens Collection: Danish Royal Glass.
- The Corning Museum of Glass Announces New Glassmaking Studio.
- A Conversation with Elsie Burton. I had the good fortune of having a brief conversation with Elsie Burton, widow of the late John Burton. John Burton is generally regarded as the father of modern artistic lampworking and was the author of one the first and finest definitive books on artistic lampworking, "Glass - Hand-Blown, Sculptured, Colored - Philosophy and Method".
- Photo #1 Elsie in her livingroom after Hurricane Iniki, 1994.
- The Bead Column; "Why" Beads?
- AT THE LAMP
- Lampworkers Having Babies
- GAS.
- Chem-o-lene Revisited.
- The Best Bead Show
- Czech Glass
- New Glass! Soft Borosilicate!!
- Photo of Robert A. Mickelsen's glass work.
- Video Review The Basics of Making Marbles.
- And Now For Something Different!
Coming soon... We are working on the back issues, they will be linked to the "Cross Reference Index"
For Subscribers only!
Their is a lot of information in the back issues, it will take a little time to put them up.
Check the "Cross Reference Index" from time to time, you will see the links appear as we put them up.
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