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Creative breeze gusts at UNL
One breath of tjldss became the swan body, while another
tube of hot, lithe glass was stietched, curved and bubbled into
the swan's neck and head.
The tube ends were closed and smoothed in the blue flame
of the glass burner. After a bit of flattening and sanding with a
carbon paddle, chief UNL glass blower Lloyd Moore took off
his dark glasses, smiled and displayed the finished glass swan.
Scientific gla.' blowers like Moore and his assistant, Tim
Giauer, work from different sizes of (ire-formed glass tubing,
rattier than raw vat glass which is rolled and blown on the end
of a pipe,
Ninety per cent of their work at 24 Hamilton Hall is
forming specialized systems of glass tubes, coils and bulbs used
by UNL's chemistry department.
The glass department also makes equipment for Bryan
Hospital, Hams and Nor den Laboratories, and Nebraska
Wesleyan Uniyei sity.
When Moore isn't working on vacuum liners, liquid
extractors, distillation heads and other research systems, he's
filling outside orders.
One is an oider for a unique design of cocktail glasses to be
cngi a j. for a .vedding. The cup and base of the glasses are
mode separately and then put together,
''hile ,voi king on small tubes of glass, Moore sits behind a
Bethlehem glass burner mounted on his desk.
When not in use, a short, yellow flame flares from the
burner. Moore adjusted a dial to make a long, blue flame,
which flared gold when glass was put into it.
Mr woiked intensely, his facial expressions changing while
he ..luiped the glass tube into a heavy mound.
With more heat, shaping and f tokening, the red black glass
.v,i, formed into the cone base. Moore took the base from the
flame and it became less orange and black until it was clear.
He looked up and asked. "Any questions?"
The dark glasses he wears, besides shielding his eyes from
heat and possible cataracts, allow him to watch the glass inside
the flare.
For largo projects that require free hands and perfect
;.trai()htnes:,, he works with the glass held in a glass blowing
lathe
Moore has the same type of small burner at home for his
own use. He also demonstrates his skills at craft fairs. His
creative glass work includes a glass telephone and his personal
glass pipe.
It's difficult to go to a school to team glass blowing, he
said. He learned the task under the direction of another glass
worker at the University of Kansas befoie coming to UNL in
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