With a design is similar to BBQ tongs, BBQ Mashers have 2" square stainless steel mashing surfaces.

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From left to right: Realistic Small Curved (most popular), Realistic Large Flat, Realistic Large Angled

Realistic Leaf Mashers put a realistic leaf vein pattern into glass as they mash it.

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We have been making this tool in a pliers version for many years. Now we are making them as tweezers. Just as wonderful a tool, but at half the price of the old pliers version. These clever little mashers press a blob of molten glass into a delicate, bead scale fish fin, two fin bones wide at a time. Just heat the glass and mash it side by side repeatedly to make a wider and wider fin.

 
Top view in left picture. Side view in right picture. In the left picture, the Straight End is on top and the Curved End is on the bottom.

With their robust ergonomic handle, the Ruffler Tool mashes a ruffle pattern into glass that can also be easily turned into a bird wing or fish fin. There are two versions. One version has a straight end to nest up tight to a cylinder shaped bead or straight edged form. The other has a curve to it to more closely follow a curved form. Either will work on any type of base form nicely. Top view of tool to show pattern and side view to show the ergonomic handle.

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Jewelry pliers with either ¾" or 1" square stainless steel pads for mashing hot glass. Handle color varies.

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Parallel Tweezers Mashers. Top view in above, left picture. Side view in above, right picture.

 
Angled Tweezers Mashers. Top view in above, left picture. Side view in above, right picture.

As you probably already know, many of our tools are based on tweezers. Some we re-profile their tips for special applications, others we make various sizes and shapes of stainless steel squares and patterns and weld or braze them to tweezers. Always looking to develop new tools and to improve on existing ones, we have come up with an improved, very robust, ergonomic tweezers design. As you can see in the pictures, they are easier to hold and easier to use. Angled Tweezers Mashers are for profiling the bottom of heart shaped beads and more.
To make these Tweezers Mashers as robust as possible, we cut down much longer tweezers to remove the slender and weaker portion, producing a Tweezers Mashers superb to all others!

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Designed by Marshall and Caitlin Hyde, both instructors of the Corning Museum of Glass. The all brass mashers are 1" (25mm) wide with a parallel gap of about ¼" (6mm) and 6" (15cm) long.

The polished pointed tips can manipulate fine detail, yet have enough mass behind them to take on a lot of heat to resist sticking to molten glass. Behind the points it widens to ½" (12.7 mm) for mashing small scale work. Choose a Narrow or Wide tip profile.

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Narrow Tweezers Mashers are small, comfortable, all-round mashers for small to medium work. They are 5½" long and the ends are parallel at approximately 5 mm.

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Needle nose jewelry pliers that have been modified so that their jaws are parallel at 3/16" rather than when fully closed.

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Small tweezers with pads measuring ¼" X ½".

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Used to make star murrini and  other angled mashing.

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