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BBQ Mashers
$45.00 Part# MASBBQ
The quality BBQ mashers are our most popular mashing tool. The design is similar to BBQ tongs. 12" long with rubber handles and flat, thick, 2" square stainless steel mashing surfaces. There is an adjustable set screw to stop the mashing distance.
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Smooth Surface Mashing Pliers
Square Flat Smooth ….. $18.00 Part# MSSFS
Round Flat Smooth ….. $18.00 Part# MASSRFS
Small Curved ..... $18.00 Part# MASSC
Medium Curved ..... $18.00 Part# MASMC
Large Curved ..... $18.00 Part# MASLC
The Square Flat Smooth mashers have 1½" square pads that when closed, are parallel at 3/16". The Round Flat Smooth mashers have 2" round pads that when closed, are parallel at 1/16". The Small Curved mashers have pads that are about 1½" square and are shaped into a curve that has the profile of a 7/8" diameter circle. The Medium Curved mashers have pads that are about 1½" square and are shaped into a curve that has the profile of a 1-1/8" diameter circle. The Large Curved mashers have pads that are about 2" square and are shaped into a curve that has the profile of a 4-1/4" diameter circle.
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Leaf Mashing Pliers
Realistic Small Curved Leaf ….. $18.00 Part# MASRSL
Realistic Large Flat Leaf ….. $18.00 Part# MASRLL
Realistic Large Angled Leaf ..... $20.00 Part# MASRLAL
The realistic Leaf pliers come in three styles. Small curved shape scaled to bead and jewelry making, large flat or large angled for larger jewelry and sculptural work. The realistic leaf pattern is on both sides of the mashing surfaces. The Traditional Leaf Mashers have a pattern on only one side and the pattern is straight and ridged looking. The pattern becomes more life like when you manipulate the glass. The Traditional Leaf mashers make leaves scaled to bead and jewelry making.
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Ruffler Shaper
Curved End ..... $22.95 Part# MAS-RUFF-C
Straight End ..... $22.95 Part# MAS-RUFF-S
The Ruffler Shaper 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.
In the bead samples pictured, the oval bead has two ruffles that were applied. One ruffle was applied in a straight line, running parallel to the bead hole. The other ruffle was applied at a diagonal, like a barber pole. Both ruffles were made using the Curve End Ruffler.
The Straight End Ruffler was used on the cylinder shaped bead. Both of its ruffles were applied lengthwise and parallel to the bead hole. One of the ruffles was gently reheated and pulled over to the side to create a stylized bird wing or fish fin.
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Parallel Action Mashing Pliers
$40.00 Part# MASPAR
These pliers are like the flat Standard Mashing Pliers except, the mashing surfaces are mounted on parallel action pliers instead of ordinary pliers. This causes the surfaces to remain truly parallel to each other whether they are fully closed, fully open or anywhere in between. Maximum opening distance is 11/16".
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Mini Mashers
$18.00 ¾" Square Pads Part# MASMINI
$18.00 1" Square Pads Part# MASMINI1
Choose with mashing surfaces of either ¾" or 1" square stainless steel Pads. They are mounted to jewelry pliers which makes them very strong. They won't flex while mashing glass as it stiffens. A great tool for small scale work. Unlike cheap knockoffs, that the pads are only parallel when they touch each other, we make our Mini Masher pads parallel with a thin gap between them. After all, we invented them. We know how to make them.
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Ergonomic Tweezers Mashers
¾" Square Pads, 6½" Length ..... $16.00 Part# MASTW-75-65
¾" Square Pads, Angled, 6½" Length ..... $18.00 Part# MASTW-75-65A
1" Square Pads, 7½" Length ..... $18.00 Part# MASTW-1-75
1" Square Pads, Angled, 7½" Length ..... $20.00 Part# MASTW-1-75A
1½" Square Pads, 9" Length ..... $24.00 Part# MASTW-15-9
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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Hyde Mashers
$22.00 Part# MASHYDE-R
Designed by Marshall and Caitlin Hyde, both instructors of the Corning Museum of Glass. The all brass mashers are 1" (25 mm) wide with a parallel gap of about ¼" (6 mm) and 6" (15 cm) long.
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Italian Style Pointed Tweezers Mashers
Slender Tip ..... $16.95 Part# TW-ITAL8TMS
Wide Tip ..... $16.95 Part# TW-ITAL8TMW
This invaluable tool just may become the workhorse on your lampworking bench. It has a good heavy duty, solid feel in your hand. 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. A great time saver and incredibly handy when you have just tweezed a hot area of glass and want to mash it before it cools down (or vice versa). You won't have to set down one tool to pick up another, while the whole time the glass is becoming too cool and needs reheating.
We made two different tip profiles and asked lampworkers which style they preferred. Half said the slender tip and half said the wide tip, because the curve leading to the points can also be used for mashing like a pinch at the side of the molten glass and will leave a nice curve transition between the mashed area and the area that was not mashed. 8" length.
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Narrow Tweezers Mashers
$6.50 Part# MASTW-5
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 Mashing Pliers
$10.00 Part# MASNN
Needle nose jewelry pliers that have been modified so that their jaws are parallel at 3/16" rather than when fully closed. Used in narrow tight places. Especially useful when making murrini, such as letters where needle nose mashers fit down the length of the work to help form the shape of the letter.
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Micro Mashing Tweezers
$3.50 Part# MASMIC
4¾" long tweezers have small flat thin pads measuring ¼" X ½". Excellent for tiny detail work in tight places.
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Star Mashers
$18.00 Part# MASSTAR
Used to make star murrini. Much easier than using a bead scale optic mold for the simple reason that when an optic mold is scaled down, the viscosity of the glass stays the same. This makes it very difficult to get the glass down into the mold, if not impossible. To use the star masher is very easy. Just form a cylinder of glass about ¾" in diameter and an inch or two long. Punty it on an end. Heat only where you will pinch. Using the star mashers, pinch along the side of the cylinder to form a leg of the star. Repeat around the cylinder to complete the star. You can fill in between the points to round out the murrini or wipe on a thin layer of another color and re-pinch the points. Pull down the murrini as usual. A smaller cylinder will have fewer points to the star. A larger cylinder will have more.
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Smircich Button Masher
$30.00 Part# SMIR-BM
Developed by Jim Smircich, the Smircich Button Masher is a pliers with a stainless pad on each jaw set parallel to each other at 1/8". One pad extends further than the other. To shape a button you first melt a round ball of glass at the end of a glass rod. Next, set the end of the molten glass ball onto a graphite pad, with the glass rod pointing skyward, to flatten the end of the glass ball. Reheat the glass and use the mashers to shape the button face to a gentle dome shape. The longer pliers pad shapes the face of the button while the shorter pad rests against the glass rod and shapes the back of the button. The glass rod can later become the button's loop.
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