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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 145693, member: 56"]The treatment on the bottom is called "cut shut".</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly I did not make a note of who gave me this information:</p><p><i>The piece was pressed upside down, with the bottom open like a funnel. A small diameter extension poked the hole in what is now the top, from the inside. After the piece was removed from the mold, it was picked up in a "snap", a devise to allow the workers to manipulate the piece. Once snapped up, it was warmed in, (reheated in the glory hole) and the bottom was tooled shut, excess glass was twisted off leaving the swirl on the bottom. The process is called "cut shut."</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 145693, member: 56"]The treatment on the bottom is called "cut shut". Sadly I did not make a note of who gave me this information: [I]The piece was pressed upside down, with the bottom open like a funnel. A small diameter extension poked the hole in what is now the top, from the inside. After the piece was removed from the mold, it was picked up in a "snap", a devise to allow the workers to manipulate the piece. Once snapped up, it was warmed in, (reheated in the glory hole) and the bottom was tooled shut, excess glass was twisted off leaving the swirl on the bottom. The process is called "cut shut."[/I][/QUOTE]
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