Equipment + Facilities
An extensive custom facility offers a full range of glassworking processes (see below). Among its various refinements are a half-ton continuous-melt glass furnace, a 500-lb. casting furnace, 22 computer-programmed process ovens, a well-developed coldworking facility and working space for undergraduate students. Graduate students are assigned studio space in the Fletcher Building.

Design Center
continuous melt furnace (1000-lb. capacity)
casting furnace (500-lb. capacity)
3 glory holes
3 benches with compressed air stations
3 steel marvers on casters
mobile pipe cooler
gas fired pipe warmer
Oxy-propane bench torch
natural gas-fired garage
2 large front-loading annealing ovens
2 top-loading annealing oven
3 pick up ovens
1 front-loading sculpture annealing oven (for solid work)
2 Digitry GB4 controllers
1 Watlow 981 controller
sand casting equipment (ladles, metal boxes, acetlyne, CO2)
rolling metal boxes & ladles for sandcasting

Kiln Room
2 small kilns
3 small stacker ovens
4 medium ovens
2 large ovens
1 car kiln
1 bell kiln
2 Digitry GB4 controllers
4 Watlow 981 controllers
2 Watlow F4 controllers
Nederman downdraft de-molding table

Cold Shop
Clipper diamond cut-off saw
Somaca glass drill press
2 Somaca roller platen vertical belt sander
3 diamond flatting wheels
1 large Steinert flatting wheel
2 Somaca polishing wheels
4 grinding/cutting lathes & diamond wheels
3 Merker cutting lathes

2 Foredom flexible-shaft engraving stations
2 Tornado I & II air-powered diamond shaping tools
2 Starlite hand-held etching/grinding tools
2 Rose Industries Recipro-lap automatic polishing machines
American ultraviolet curing lamp
UV gluing station
Polarizing lamp

Sandblasting Room
Zero Mfg. Co. #BN 65-1 sandblaster
Cyco-Blast industrial sandblaster
Plaster Room
Hoffman RPGH-15 steam machine

Additional Equipment
Carlisle and Bethlahan bench burner