Dave Bross - Hot Glass Art - Beads, Jewelry and Sculpture

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Interesting Links

Please let me know if you want to trade or suggest links.

Beads

The Bead Site - By Peter Francis, an archeologist (and very nice guy) who studies beads. Great info on all sorts of beads new and old.
Note: Peter Francis died in Dec. '02... R.I.P. my friend...the site is still up and going

The Beadwrangler - lots of links & info on things bead

The Bead Bugle - e-zine about beads

Glass

Corning Museum of glass - Biggest and best glass museum in the US

Rakow Library - Library at the Corning Museum - One of the best glass info resources in the world, wonderful librarians

Rockwell Museum in Corning NY - Known mainly for the collection of western art. You might never have known that they have a huge collection of early 20th century Stuben glass from the era of Frederick Carder. If you're going to Corning don't miss this

Bulletin Boards/Forums

On some of these links you will have to find the link to the bulletin board or other stuff by looking around on the page

Updates and comments : 7/02

Lots of changes in the forums lately.

The SGB board has just moved,and become the ISGB. The new address is linked here. Lots of conflict around the ISGB lately. They seem to have become very dominant and inconsiderate in their behavior lately. I'm afraid their success has gone to their head a bit, as they have been heavily censoring many things on their board and doing some other things with a very heavy hand. Anything you post there may just disappear if it happens to displease those in power in any way and you may get roughed up a bit if you post. The archives there have a lot of valuable info.

I have to disagree with where the ISGB is going, those sorts of behaviors are absolute death to the creative spirit.

There is an alternative bead forum just getting started at wet canvas, which is just a great and very friendly art board overall. You'll find it under "glass art" there.

Brads' handmade glass board is the original furnace workers board. You can read the board without paying but it's well worth the $20 fee to be able to access the archives there. Brad is quite expert on things electrical pertaining to glass

the old Craftweb furnace glass board is back up with Pete Vanderlaan at the helm. Pete is a 30-40 year veteran furnace glassblower and very expert on batching and melting glass and glass color. All the bad things that happened there in the past are history, the board is very carefully run now. the link is down below.

Pipe making is always a controversial topic in the glass community. I don't make pipes but
I do feel that it's a free country and I believe the pipemakers should be allowed to do what they do without all the harassment they get from other glass workers. I believe everyone has to come to their own terms on what's right or wrong for them to do,as long as they're not hurting others. So....the pipemakers board is here.

The pipemakers are much luckier than all the other glass workers anyway, the "war on drugs" protects their market here in the USA. No chinese knock-offs putting them out of business.

Handmade Glass Board - furnace glass

Craftweb - furnace glass

Glass Line Bulletin board - The bulletin board for Glass Line Magazine, emphasis on lampworking. Also has good link page and classifieds you can access without the paid subscription to Glass Line

ISGB (International Society of Glass Bead makers) bulletin board - see comments above

Glass Marble Makers Board - very helpful folks here

Neat Net Tricks - Computer problems or questions? The bulletin board here is one of the best

Brad Shute's Handmade Glass Page - Brad has plenty of good info on glass in addition to the bulletin board.

The Warm Glass Board - Great board on fusing, slumping, and other sorts of kilnworked glass

Wet Canvas - Good Art Forum - Glass section just getting started

Pipe Makers - Lots of other good info here on working Boro glass too