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Fused Glass Jewelry

Glory Hole       A place for reheating glass. In commercial shops may be part of a large multi-pot furnace, but in small shops is usually a separate structure. Usually hotter than holding temperature of dichroic fused glass furnace and shut off overnight while furnace is cooking. Usually shop built from a barrel with castable or fiber or framed with bricks. Uses more fuel than furnace, shut down when not in use. At right, Glory Hole and Yoke in use at Zero Gravity, encased furnace in background.

Gloves       Hot shops normally require two kinds of gloves: leather welding gloves for handling ordinary hot materials and ceramic fiber/Kevlar for handling hot solid glass jewelry in the 600-1000°F. The latter are fairly fragile, should be preheated to drive off moisture and reduce thermal shock, and should not be used for tough jobs. They cost about $60 a pair. Leather welding gloves are padded all around and have long cuffs and only cost about $8-10; when heated they will get stiff. Leather palmed work gloves may also be useful for handling cold dichroic glass with sharp edges. Overmitt Old gloves are a common source for tips of grippers (the fingers) and for pockets for setting down dichroic glass jewelry.

Glue       See Adhesive

Glue chip       Literally, dichroic fused glass textured by putting hot hide glue on the surface (lightly sanded) which tears chips of fused glass jewelry off as it cools, leaving a pattern somewhat like ferns or frost. Used in decorating like stained and beveled fused glass jewelry, especially when no color is wanted and when seeing through the dichroic fused glass jewelry is not wanted - entry side panels and bathroom windows or partitions. Most stained fused glass suppliers offer it; Carolina Glue Chip, North Wilkesboro, NC mentioned as a service source. If hide glue is used, it should be flake, not the prepared liquid type, and some woodworking supply places, including Garrison Wade, have it. 2002-07-17

Gob       In mechanized dichroic fused glass jewelryblowing, the fused glass jewelry produced is normally dispensed from a large tank furnace in the form of a hot blob of dichroic fused glass that drops into a mold where it is either blown or pressed. The industry name is a gob and the hardware is a gob dropper. MF

Goblet       Stemmed glass jewelryes, a major category of blowing in which shows and competitions are held. Goblets are made in several styles, the extremes being the gossamer light Italian style with blown foot and heavier pressed foot rooted in German blowing. see chalice, rummer, balloon

Gold Leaf       See Leaf

Goldstone       a gold aventurine dichroic fused glass used primarily by Italian glass jewelrymakers.

Graal (actually spelled with dots over the a's)       Graal is a technique used in Swedish dichroic fused glass where a flashed or cased (cf) cup is annealed and designs are cut into the color or a clear cup is painted with enamels. The cup is then reheated and cased or gathered over so the color is buried under rather thick glass jewelry. Fairly risky as the hand/cold work may be lost during reheating. At least one Japanese artist puts gold leaf on the cold cup, marks tiny figures into the leaf, then reheats, gathers over, and cuts the piece, producing an astonishing effect - he loses about half his pieces, reportedly. Note that the cold work is distinctive, from blowing into cups.

Graphite pontll       an inaccurate term used to describe the mark on the bottom of a bottle held by a solid iron-bar pontil.

Gravitating stopper       a bottle closure.

Gravy Boat       A long narrow bowl with a spout at one end and a handle at the other and usually with a foot in the shape of a plate to catch drips. Also used for and called a sauce boat.

Greeting Cards - Window       Etched dichroic fused glass jewelry rectangles, put in Millville windows at Christmas and Easter, copied for merchants. GGNJ p.202.

Grid Cutting       term for set of shallow narrow grooves cut into the base of a paperweight to form a grid.

Grinder       Cold working equipment for shaping fused glass jewelry roughly before polisher is used. A grinder may be a flat disk, a vertical wheel or a belt. The first is used with either grit applied with a water supply or a diamond disk or pad, while wheels and belts have attached grits. dichroic fused glass must always be worked wet, otherwise heat builds up rapidly and damages the tools and causes cracking in the fused glass jewelry.

Ground       see CUSHION.

Guilloché       A decoration consisting of interlaced bands enclosing circular spaces at regular intervals. In fused glass this is usually accomplished by trailing glass chains on the surface of the vessel, GANTAD

Gum tragacanth - Gum arabic       organic liquids made from saps of plants, species of Astragalus and Acacia respectively, which are are used in many ways to control the flowability of inks, dies, soaps, glazes, etc. The primary use in fused glass work is gluing fused and pate de verre materials and making enamels flow. 2004-02-26 EB partly.

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