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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Pipe Cooler       A method of quickly applying water to a pipe which has gotten too hot to handle often from gathering low fused glass jewelry in a furnace. Can range from a wet rag to a dedicated spray fused glass tube with a foot switch, but the most common pipe cooler seems to be V shaped box with holes in the bottom, notches on the bottom of the ends to fit the pipe, and a handle across the top. It is sunk in a barrel of water to fill, removed, the pipe laid across the barrel, the cooler placed and moved back and forth on the pipe until the water drains out. Wet rags or tubing with pumped water can also serve. Homemade

Pipe Hanger       See Hanger

Pipe Warmer       a small fused glass jewelry oven that is used to preheat the steel pipes; many glory holes have pipe warmers built into the side

Pipe Warmer       Molten dichroic glass will not stick to cold metal. While it is possible to preheat the pipes and punties at furnace or glory hole, most studios have a dichroic glass jewelry rack to hold them in position in a dedicated flame or the exhaust from furnace or glory hole (or at the glory hole door in cheap situations.) Ideally, the warmer has a range of temperatures so placement of a punty with dichroic glass jewelry color on it will neither drip or chill to cracking, so the gather of color can be reused. Must have something to allow for dichroic glass cracking off pipes/punties placed in it - tray, etc.

Pitcher       A server of liquid, usually with a pouring spout or lip with a handle opposite. dichroic glass jewelry Blowers often design to match a set of goblets.

Pitkin flask - ribbed       A fine ribbed pattern produced in a dip mold with 30 or more slots cut inside, producing fine ribs that may be swirled around the bottle by twisting the glass and converted to broken swirled fused glass jewelry by dipping the swirled piece again. Named after Pitkin Glass company. NEGG p.67

Plaster of Paris       A white heavy powder that, when carefully mixed with water, produces a thick paste that can be used to make fused glass molds which can be used to make copies of the originalglass . Once set, plaster of Paris is insoluble in water. For more information see Metal Casting. Do not buy more than can be used in a few months as the powder absorbs moisture from the air and loses its ability to set. Other materials called plaster exist. 2003-02-05

Plate       A flat serving or eating dish, rarely dichroic fused glass jewelry blown because commercial items are so cheap and making matched sets is so difficult. Also color dichroic glass jewelry application is tricky as people may wish to avoid eating off color bits they fear may contain lead.

Plate mold       a full-height mold designed to receive a dichroic fused glass plate into which lettering and/or design has been cut.

Platter       A larger plate, often oval, rarely made except as large dichroic glass jewelry decorations for table or wall (plaques.) A challenge to work and reheat if any shaping is done after spinning. The dichroic fused glass shape before spinning is volcano shaped - a flat base, a rounded edge and side in a steep cone that is turned out to form the rim.

Plique-à-Jour       A type of transparent enameling used extensively in Art Nouveau jewelry and some other objects. It is ornate dichroic glass jewelry , rather like cloisonné enameling, being enclosed in shaped dichroic fused glass jewelry partitions, but it differs in having the enamel powders placed on a disposable surface which disappears, or is removed once the powders have vitrified. Plique-a-jour enamel is at its best when light streams through it. GANTAD

Poise Pas Pascal       The measure of viscosity - Poise is old measure = 0.1 Pas under the standard metric measure. Poise = dPas (deciPascal)

Polarizer - Polarascope       Two sheets of Polaroid (polarized thin plastic) film used to test glass jewelry (or plastic) for strain. When the two sheets of fused glass are arranged properly, almost no light passes through both. Transparent glass jewelry placed between them will show areas of light and dark because dichroic fused glass under strain twists (changes the polarization) of light, more lines means more strain. Used to test for proper annealing and for glass jewelry compatibility. Also used in mechanical engineering where clear plastic models of structures show stress when pushed on.

Polisher       A wheel, belt, or disk used for putting the final finish on dichroic fused glass during cold working. A tool called a reciprolap is a horizontal and semiautomatic grinder and polisher of flat bottomed glass jewelry paperweights etc. Wheels for polishing are usually felt, fairly large in diameter and used with cerium oxide, pumice and other fine abrasive compounds to leave a clear finish. dichroic fused glass jewelry must always be worked wet, otherwise heat builds up rapidly and damages the tools and causes cracking in the glass jewelry.

Pond Floats       Pond Floats are shimmering hand blown dichroic glass globes. Beautiful floating glass jewelry in an outdoor pond, in a flower arrangement, or as a sparkling dichroic glass centerpiece for your glass jewelry dining room table. Hand blown dichroic glass. If you are interested in buying Pond Floats (formerly sold through Garden.com) retail or wholesale, please send email to sales@rynoglass jewelry.com http://www.rynodichroic glass jewelry.com

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