9/17/21

How to Cut Glass Color Bar (for Glassblowing)

This video demonstrates how to use a color bar chopper to cleanly cut typical Hot Shop glassblowing color bar. This method (while less precise) is preferred to using a diamond (or tile) saw because it sections off the color cleanly. Diamond saw blades leave a rough surface on the color that can show up as a fuzzy haze in the finished blown object.

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