Allan B Brown Glassblowing Seminars— Tucson AZ 2016.
Day 1
Bench –Distillation Head, full size
Lathe –Construction of Quartz Torch Heads
Day 2
Bench –Jacketed valves
Lathe –Short Path Distillation Head (lathe method, all blow on one side)
Instructors
Jack Korfhage
Jack Korfhage attended Salem Community College completing the two-year program in Scientific Glassblowing Technology. He has worked for Lurex Manufacturing Company, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Gammett Glass, and has been self-employed. For the past 27 years, Ethyl/Albemarle Corporation has employed Jack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as a Research and Development Glass Blower. He first joined the ASGS in 1970, and has been Secretary of the Delaware Valley Section, Director and Secretary-Treasurer of the Southwest Section, and a past president of the ASGS. In 1996 he was a Co-Chair of the New Orleans Symposium as well as the Workshops Chair. Jack received the 1994 New England Section Award and in 2003 and 2007 the William A. Wilt Senior Award. He has presented several workshop demonstrations and has presented papers at several past symposia. He has served as National Membership Chair and Chair of the Allan B. Brown Seminar.
Neal Korfhage
Neal Korfhage began scientific glassblowing at the age of 15, working with his father in the family-based glassblowing business. His first learned skills were tooling and basic repair of scientific glassware. After graduating from high school, he attended Salem Community College from 1994-1996. He then accepted a glassblowing position at Sigma-Aldrich Corporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked until 2006. Neal currently is the scientific glassblower for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Neal has served on the Audit Committee, Computer Committee, and the Allan B. Brown Glassblowing Seminar of the ASGS.
Kevin Teaford
Kevin Teaford started his glassblowing career in 1992 at the Westinghouse-Hanford Company. After 3 ½ years in Research and Development, Kevin accepted a position with Farlow’s Scientific Glassblowing in northern California. At Farlow’s, he learned of many new types of glassware found in the medical and scientific production industry. In 1999, he secured a position at Precision Glassblowing of Colorado. While at Precision, he was introduced to many new aspects of production-style glassblowing, which included fabrication of large diameter Pyrex apparatus and the introduction of larger Quartz fabrication. Kevin has worked at the University of Utah since 2002. Kevin has been the National Membership Chair for the ASGS and now is the Chair of the Allan B. Brown Regular Member Seminar.
Philip Legge
Philip Legge is a 3rd generation glassblower and 3rd generation ASGS member. He is the current National Secretary and the Chair of the Great Lakes Section. Philip has been blowing glass at a family business Scientific Glass Design In Ajax Ontario Canada part time since 1998 and full time since 2005.
Kevin Teaford, Chair
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