3M Electrostatic Diamond Disks

We've been testing these babies out for about 4 months now and everyone who has seen them or played with them has fallen head over heels in love with them.

The 3M Electrostatic diamond disks are absolutely perfect for grinding and smoothing down smaller surface areas on your glass like jewelry and small scale work. They make short work of the surface and leave a virtually chip free edge even at the 120 grit. Quick, efficient and inexpensive, these disks will revolutionize many smaller pieces that you work on. You can also easily transition from either the 400 grit or 600 grit straight to the 3M Cerium impregnated disks for lightening fast polish. You won't know what you used to do without these.

Spatzier lathes now online

If you've been interested in obtaining one of our refurbished Spatzier lathes, we've now made it even easier for you. Instead of calling or emailing us and going back and forth, we now have a set price for the refurbished lathes and you can order them online through the website and use your credit card for payment. How easy and convenient is that!?

Depending on availability, we will have either a 6 step or 12 step lathe available at any given time. The lathes are completely refurbished with new bearings and a new paint job and run like they're brand new. We even have a very cool electronics package for the lathes that takes American 110V 60Hz single phase and transforms it to the 220V 50Hz 3 phase for use with the standard motor. The electronics package also gives you a variable speed control right on the box instead of having to change the belts on the lathe. Super easy!

If you've begun to move your processes over to diamond wheels, smoothing wheels, Polpur Wheels or Sintered radiused and engraving wheels, you'll know that all these wheels have a 1 inch arbor. No problem. We also offer both regular steel and stainless steel spindle with a 1 inch threaded arbor so you can use all your new diamond and Lapi wheels with your new shiny Spatzier lathe.

How's that for combining old school and new school. The best of both worlds at work in your shop. Who could ask for anything more?

"The Joy of Coldworking"

Yes, finally there is a book devoted entirely to coldworking. It's awesome too.

Go ahead and grab a copy.

More videos on Wheels

In case you're not keeping up via YouTube, we have another video posted of using the Spatzier lathe, this time with sintered engraving wheels.

Glass to Metal Epoxy

For years we've had customers ask us what the best adhesive is for gluing glass to metal. For years, that answer has been HXTAL. And while HXTAL still is the best overall epoxy for most all your bonding needs, sometimes you just need something that cures quickly, bonds fast and holds well. For small metal to glass items, HXTAL is just overkill and the lengthy cure time can be problematic if you have to bond 100 metal hangers in an afternoon.

Well, we're happy to say, we've found the solution for all your glass to metal bonding needs. 3M's DP105 is a water clear epoxy formulated specifically to bond glass to metal, quickly and efficiently. DP105 will cure in roughly 5 minutes after application, so it's super easy to bond your glass and metal together very quickly and move on to the next piece. It will remain water clear for the life of the epoxy so you don't have to worry about any unsightly yellowing of your joint and it has superior bond strength, so you don't have to worry about your metal pieces "popping" off the glass.

We have the DP105 epoxy available in 1.7oz Duo Packs immediately, along with a very handy applicator that can be used over and over again and we also carry some very efficient mixing nozzles that allow for perfectly mixed epoxy to be ejected from the applicator saving you time and trouble in your applications.

We think you'll be very impressed with this newest adhesive addition to our lineup.

We Have a Winner!

Congratulations are in order for Joni Burleson of Glasscentricity out in Denver, CO.

She was the winner of our 1 pound kit of HXTAL from all the entries we received at GAS Corning.

Joni said that she's quite excited to try out some new ideas and products.

We thought it was great to see so many people at GAS this year and so much excitement in the glass community. We really enjoyed seeing everyone and speaking with many of you.

Congratulations again to Joni and thanks for everyone who participated.

Follow Us

We're now on Twitter!

If you haven't heard of Twitter before, then now is a perfect time to find out.

Twitter gives you easy to digest, up to the minute information on what's going on with folks.

In our case, we'll be posting interesting tools that we may be testing, promotions that may be coming up, any specials that we'll run and even the occasional "lightning discounts."

"What's a lightning discount?" you ask. If you start following us on twitter, every so often we'll post a discount code that will be available for only the first 3 people who use it on our shopping cart. It's a great way to save some money and you'll also know about all the cool stuff we're trying to do.

Just head over to http://www.twitter.com/hisglassworks to start following our tweets.