
Cutting & Grinding with diamond encrusted tools
When a shade is being made in the hot workshop it is connected to the blowing iron by what we call a punty (small pad of hot glass) which acts as a bridge between the glass form and the metal. At the end of of the making process this punty is left on the shade and needs to removed after annealing. This is done in the cold workshop using diamond encrusted cutting and grinding...
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