A hole by any other name

As many of our customer's are aware, our synthetic felt has gone through a number of changes over the years mostly centered around the ability to perforate the material.

Well, it appears the drama is not quite over yet.

The largest problem is the rate at which fabric perforators have been going out of business over the last few years. Unlike metal perforating, with fabric perforation, you have to maintain a completely clean machine. No oils, no lubrication, nothing that can mar the surface of the felt material while perforating. This makes the process extremely expensive and it's not something that every Tom, Dick, and Harry requires. This leads to a large number of business failures in this segment of the perforating industry.

It appears as though it has happened once again. Our current perforator for our Synthetic Felt material has gone out of business. We have a new perforator that we have found that is willing to perforate the felt material, but the perforation pattern will be somewhat different as we are constrained by the limitations of the dies available to us.

You'll notice in the coming months, if you regularly order synthetic felt material, that the perforation pattern will change. This WILL NOT adversely affect the performance of the material. In most cases, you may actually find that it performs better than before. Just something to keep in mind when you next order your felt.

How to "Stick it to your glass"

There's a question we often get. "How do I get tape to stick to my glass when it gets wet?"

It's a quandry we've had ourselves over the years. We'd do everything from cleaning off the surface with Acetone, to putting about three layers of duct tape on objects when we were using the tape to protect pieces in the Rociprolap or making handles to hold smaller pieces or polished pieces on the grinding wheel.

We never found a good solution for this problem until now. 3M approached us a while back with their 393 water resistant cloth duct tape for this exact problem with keeping our pieces taped up while polishing for 10 hours in the Rociprolap. They said, "Give this a try and I know you'll be impressed."

We were.

We've been using this tape now for over 6 months for everything from keeping pieces together while polishing in our Rociprolap, to grinding and polishing lens and sphere parts on the lap grinder and belt sander. It's easily the greatest duct tape we've ever used.

Give it a try and we know you'll be impressed too.

Like Buttah

Or Buttercut!
Have you been struggling to find a really good sandblast resist that makes it easy for you to cut your design into the resist, yet stays in place on the glass or stone and also removes easily once your blasting is done?

Have you heard of Buttercut? If you haven't, you don't know what you've been missing. 3M's Buttercut sandblast resist is most likely the best resist on the market today and now you can order it through His Glassworks!

We offer the Buttercut in rolls 12 inches wide and 24 inches wide by 30 feet long. For smaller projects, we also offer the resist by the square foot. Give it a try and we promise you'll never go back to struggling with shelf paper again.

Financing now available

So you've found a lot of tools that you'd love to have to complete your shop or start your business or even take your work in a completely new direction, but you don't have the cash on hand at the moment and you don't want to continue piling the funds onto your credit card?

We'll we've heard and responded. Now in conjunction with Direct Capital, we are offering financing options for orders over $2500.00. There are many options available and you can get a quote directly from Direct Capital at no cost to you at all. We've even got a handy little box in the right hand sidebar to make it easy to get a quick quote for funding options.

Just find out how much you need to fund, and enter your information. Our helpful representative, Ryan, at Direct Capital will contact you with the funding options. It's quick, painless and frees you up to concern yourself more with your art and less about how you're going to get there.

Slice and Dice

We've had a number of requests for these tools over the years, so we thought we'd go ahead and make them for everyone. We tested these out at the GAS conference last year and they were a big hit.
Now we have them available for everyone.

Our little sintered diamond slitter and face disk combination makes it extremely easy to slice, cut and grind into areas of your work using just a flex shaft or dremel tool. The slitters come in 1 inch, 1-1/2 inch and 2 inch diameter and are excellent for slicing into work, grinding off small imperfections, getting rid of sprues or whatever else you can imagine.

As with all sintered tools, the diamond on these little darlings goes all the way through the piece, so you can cut and grind with them until they are completely gone (and that's going to take a while, trust me).

New Flex-Tec video

So you've seen how Flex-Tec holds up to extreme conditions from our earlier videos, but how do you mix it, handle it and apply it? Well don't worry, we've got you covered (all pun intended).