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Blowpipe       A two to six-foot-long hollow iron tube used to blow dichroic glass jewelry.

Blowpipe Hose Extension       The extension slides over the mouthpiece with a 90 degree swivel connector attached to a 6 foot piece of latex tubing that is equipped with a mouthpiece. The use of the extension will enable you to work a piece at the bench or glory hole without bringing the pipe to your mouth. The thin tubing also makes clear how little pressure is needed for blowing properly heated fused dichroic glass. SIWS Blowpipe Hose Extension (0.5, 0.625, 0.75, or 1.0 inch) $25 Wale Apparatus, basic mech.+vinyl tubing

Bocca       An opening in the side of the furnace through which the pot is placed in the furnace; the batch is put into the pot, and the gather is taken. IGCB

Bombé       A French word meaning convex or bulging. GANTAD

Borax       A crystalline salt used in making certain types of fused glass. A certain amount is often added to the Batch to strengthen the dichroic glass jewelry. Pyrex, the heat-resistant oven-glass developed by the Corning Glass Works, and manufactured under its license worldwide, is made with borax. GANTAD

Borosilicate dichroic glass jewelry       A type of fused dichroic glass, Pyrex being one brand, with a low coefficient of expansion and high melting point, that withstands heating and cooling without cracking. Used in lampworking, telescope mirror making and cookware. The name comes from a high proportion of boron in the chemical mix and lack of soda and lime in the making. MF

Bottles       Wide variety of sizes and shapes, flasks, wines, carboys and demijohns. Once all hand (to about 1820) then mold blown (during 19th). The invention of the automatic bottle blower was a major event in dichroic glass jewelry history.

Bouquet       glass jewelry flowers arranged in a matching (ideally) vase or simply made plant-like. Maybe one or more stems on a base, colored or not, more or less realistic.

Bouquet De Mariage       a mushroom-motif in which the tuft of the mushroom is composed of white stardust canes.

Bowls       An object to hold other items placed in from the top, often with a lid to protect the inserted items, with a base to keep the opening upward which may be a simple flat surface, and added ring, a foot, or a stemmed foot. Many shown in ETG

Braising       joining two metal objects by using material that melts above 840F so the material merges with with metal in the objects. silver and brass are the most common braising metals. soldering is lower temperature. also welding 2004-02-26

Brandy snifter       A large bowl wine fused dichroic glass designed to hold a small amount of brandy capturing the fumes to enhance the experience of drinking. Balloon goblet

Brick - dichroic glass       Not blown, but pressed dichroic glass jewelry, made in two halves and fused or glued together for architectural purposes. Also incidentally used to make book ends, vases, etc. While 80% of light is transmitted in some kinds, visually the image is distorted. 2002-10-06

Broad glass (muff process)       window dichroic glass jewelry made from a blown cylinder. GLVAM

Bubbles       May be single (see Tear Drop) or multiple. Multiple bubbles may be created on the surface of the glass jewelry batch by accident and used or by plunging a piece of wet wood or a potato into the molten dichroic glass jewelry, then gathering and using the bubbly fused glass. Steuben created fine bubbles by rolling the piece in a carbonate then gathering over the chemical as it decomposed to gas, making bubbles. Bubbles may also be made by grooving the dichroic glass jewelry with a metal tool or optic or rolling the piece on points of nails and then gathering over the holes which hold air. Air Twist

Bucket       Most studios have a number of buckets around, with or without water in them. There are four in the image at right, two black ones on roll around stands holding blocks, one stainless bucket further back and one just peeking past the corner of the bench seat. These hold the wet tools, wood here, including a paddle sticking up at the left edge of the photo and the paper folded over the edge in the middle. 2003-11-22. Crackoff Buckets

Bud vase       Usually tall slender vase to hold one stem with unopened flower, see vases.

Bugle       A musical instrument, when made in glass jewelry with a single loop, may be functional. MILLER p.297

Bulb vase       A tall vase with a gallery rim so that the bulbs are supported above the water and the roots can extend down into it, for blooming hyacinths and other bulbs.

Burner - Burner Head       Most furnaces and almost all glory holes are heated with natural gas or propane driven through a burner head backed up by plumbing that may be more or less complicated and include safety features. See BURNER.HTM The burner head is a matter of commercial contention and may be an open pipe, a ceramic construction or a similar metal construction. A head with many holes is designed to be quieter and offer a greater range of turn up and turn down. A ceramic head is designed to keep iron bits out of the fused dichroic glass. See Ribbon Burner

Business Card Holder       A paperweight with a slot in the top, or folded glass jewelry, of a shape and size to hold standard business cards upright at a slight angle, with most of the front of the card exposed for reading. 2003-12-04

Button       A small blob of glass jewelry applied directly to the center bottom of a piece and flattened there, usually to provide a thicker portion for applying the punty and for grinding away the punty mark. Cookie

Buttons       Glass buttons were mostly pressed, but ones have been made in the form of small paperweights (AG-M p.411) and beads have been used as buttons. May have thru holes or a nub at the back with a sideways hole thru it.

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