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Interest Areas: Crafts
The Worcester Center for Crafts offers a comprehensive program in all aspects of glassblowing, sculpting, casting, fusing, flameworking, and stained glass. The Glass Program recently expanded into an 8,000 square foot facility at 35B New Street, a short distance away from Sagamore Rd.
In addition to offering quality classes, the CraftCenter can now provide a state-of-the-art professional studio for area glassworkers. Studios are available to rent.
What the various shops of the glass studio are:
Hot Shop for glassblowing, solid sculpting, hot casting
Cold Shop for grinding, drilling, engraving, polishing, cutting, sandblasting
Mold Shop for investment mold making
Flat Shop for stained glass, kilnforming
Flame Shop for beadmaking, flameworking
Cold Shop
Horizontal grinding machines (5) 80, 220, 400 grit plus 1 pumice & 1 cerium
High-speed glass lathe
Diamond wheels
Double-sided glass lathe (20² double sided)
Belt sanders (2)
Felt wheels & stone wheels
Diamond Saw
Sandblaster
Small Glass Grinders
Hot Shop
400lb. day tank filled with Seattle Batch
12 gloryholes (2)
17 gloryhole
Benches (3)
Pipe Cooler and Pipe Warmers
Pick up Boxes
Large Front Loading Annealers (3)
Large Car Kilns (2)
Assorted blowing tools
Heat Shields & yolks
Flame Shop
Carlisle Major Bench Torches (10)
Minor Bench Torches (10)
Tool Box Bead Kilns (3)
Small Annealer, manual control
Assorted Tools
Flat Shop
Assorted Glass Cutting Tools
Large Kilnforming Kiln, Digitry
Small L&L Kiln with Dynatrol
Small annealer, manual control
Assorted Kiln Shelves & Furniture
Assorted Ceramic Molds
Assorted Buckets for Mixing Plaster/ Silica
Soldering irons for Stained Glass
Additional Facilities
Kitchenette
8 Private Studios
Supplies for Sale in the Gift Shop on Sagamore Rd.
Borosilicate rods & tubes
Bullseye Sheet & Rod
Moretti
Northstar
Assorted powders
Glass cutting tools
Books
Clay Tools
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