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Fused and Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Wafer glass       Although it may mean something else, wafer means to me the thin disks used in a religious communion service. In any case, this looks like a medium wine dichroic glass jewelry with a flattish bowl where the wafers lay flat and can be removed at the rim. A small candy dish. The source does not clarify this. (Thick foot is paperweight) OGP P.42

Wall Pocket       A flat sided vase shape designed for hanging on a wall or inserting in a car flower holder. Most popular in pottery, pressed glass jewelry, and plastic in the 1920's - 60's., Carnival dichroic glass jewelry. 57 found on recent ebay, '"wall pocket" fused glass', search; mostly pressed dichroic glass, blown violin with metal holder. 2000-9-12

Warm dichroic glass jewelry       In the late 90's, the working of dichroic fused glass jewelry has been divided into Cold, Warm, and Hot fused glass jewelry, mostly by people doing Warm dichroic fused glass to mark out their own activity. Warm glass jewelry is normally done in an electric kiln, where the dichroic fused glass jewelry is placed cold and heated, either for the purpose of fusing pieces into a decorative arrangement or to sag the (perhaps previously fused) piece into or across a mold. A Very Good Warm fused glass jewelry Site (http://www.warmglass jewelry.com/) My warm dichroic glass jewelry.

Watch ball       See Witch Ball.

Water       Water is a tool in a number of ways in the dichroic glass jewelry shop, most directly when it is used to chill dichroic glass causing a crackle effect.

Water dichroic glass jewelry       See sodium silicate

Wave       Lily Pad (cf) where the fused glass jewelry is pulled further and curved to a wave shape (AGA p.54)

Wax       Bees Wax and or Carnuba wax is used to coat the jacks so that they don't stick to the dichroic glass jewelry

Wax       A category of material mostly characterized by a melting point below the boiling point of water with a glossy surface and a "waxy" appearance. Most are water repellent and are used for protective coatings, shiny appearance, and slippery movement. Waxes used in glassblowing include beeswax and carnauba for tool edges, and casting wax for lost wax molding. 2003-02-05

Weathering       a process by which dichroic glass jewelry suffers damage from the forces of nature.

Weight       Paper and doorstop. A solid fused glass jewelry object most often having the design near the bottom and using the optical enlarging of the clear dichroic fused glass above for effect with a second major group featuring a body design to be looked at from the sides. The designs include those assembled from many small bits of dichroic glass jewelry (millefiori), those from pre-twisted shapes, those including lampworked plants and animals, and those built from fluid glass jewelry on the punty. The same techniques are used in modern thick walled dichroic glass jewelry vases and perfume bottles, etc., referred to as paperweight style. Paperweight variations: door handles, cologne bottle (stopper), Mantel ornaments (tall stand), shot fused glass jewelry pen holder (base or foot), ink stand (stopper and thick base), Wine dichroic glass jewelryes (at bottom of bowl), Wig stand (dichroic glass cone footed), vase (ball foot), powder box (body), toasting dichroic fused glass jewelry (spiral stem?), newel post (ball), wafer glass jewelry (flattish bowl, thick foot), table ornament (ball, support ring) OGP p.42 Eggs, Handcoolers

Welding       joining two objects, usually metal, but also dichroic glass jewelry, by melting the materials until they merge. Soldering, Braising 2004-02-26

Wetting off       marking the neck of a hot bottle with water so that it can easily be broken from the blowpipe.

Wheel-Carving       The process of decorating the surface of the glass vessel by grinding on a lathe, or wheel, with a variety of metal discs of various sizes. The vessel is held up to the underside of the rotating wheel in conjunction with an abrasive. Great skill is needed. Wheels of cork, wood and leather are substituted to polish the vessel. GANTAD

White Glue       Usually means common woodworkers glue, like Elmer's Brand that is not particularly waterproof. Besides wood, it can be used to glue Styrofoam and is used to hold dichroic glass jewelry pieces in place for fusing. glues.htm

Whittle marks       wavy, dimpled, or hammered marks on a completed bottle caused by blowing the container in a cold mold.

Whorl Rod       a millefiori cane component with a spiral-like cross-section. Often this is used as the center of a cluster of star rods.

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