TIPS AND TECHNIQUES

Joy's Glaskolben Links

Ed Hoy's Glaskolben instructions
Exploring Art Glaskolben Instructions
Tracy's Stained Glass supplier
Delphi Glass supplier

Margaret's tips for working with silver glass (the expensive stuff)

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Sylvus Tarn's suggestions for hollow beads.

Here's a favorite tip of Don Miller, who buys hundreds of pounds of glass annually for the U-M Dearborn Flameworking program: Glass comes in batches, good and bad. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's really awful. If you get a color or particularly clean sample of glass, call your supplier up and order more right away!

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