Joppa Glassworks Inc.
Joppa Glassworks was founded by Dudley Giberson who has been working with hot glass and manufacturing equipment for decades.
Joppe Glassworks is home of the famous Giberson Ceramic Burner Heads and specialize in the manufacture of high quality kiln elements, burners, and accessories for the hot glass studio. They also provide useful glass information through their BLOG and various textbooks available for purchase.
A Glassblower's Companion is Dudley Giberson's text book on building and maintaining your glass making equipment.
Twenty-five chapters and over 300 illustrations give a clear picture of how to build furnaces, glories, and kilns of all sizes plus studio accessories like pipe warmers, garages, etc. Fresh off the press in December of 1998. Book is in its forth printing and has sold over 7100 copies to date (November, 2015).
A great bonus in this book is Dudley's sense of ancient glass history. Frequent and precise references tie our present set of studio tools and equipment to their ancient counterparts. This information connects us to our ancient past and brings forth a sense of unity to all of glass history.
Joppa Catalog of Fact and Knowledge by Dudley Giberson
Dudley's hand illustrated booklet which helped hundreds of glassblowers of a previous generation to set up shop.
This is a reprint of the 1982 version printed on white paper.
Visit Joppa Glassworks INVENTOR’S PAGE for inspiration and information that might help you build some interesting equipment for your studio!