When I started making stained glass windows in 1972, I
had no idea that art glass would actually become my career. Hi. My name is Gil
Reynolds and my wife Carmen and I run Fusion Headquarters. My stained glass art
turned out to be my stepping stone into fused glass in 1981. Back then we didn’t
have much of anything in the way of fused glass supplies. We were using ceramic
kilns with the elements on the sides and we broke a lot of glass. The glass
fusing kiln hadn’t really been invented yet. I was able to make a separate lid
element for an old kiln I used for glass painting with glass enamels. That
worked pretty well and eliminated a lot fused glass breaking in the kiln. In
time Paragon, Jen-Kins, Skutt, Evenheat and many others would refine the glass
fusing kiln into the sophisticated glass working tool that it is
today.
Bullseye glass was just starting their compatible glass
program in 1981. Boyce Lundstrum was then the president of Bullseye Glass
Company and he had a vision that stained glass could be made compatible and a
whole new era of fused glass art would emerge. Glass fusing artists owe Boyce a
bit of thanks for getting the current fusing and the slumped glass movement
started. I was one of the first instructors that Bulleye Glass Company sent out
on the road to teach glass fusing classes. In the 1980’s I taught several
hundred glass fusing and slumping classes. As I traveled around the
U.S. and abroad I noticed that there
were a lot of people excited about fusing glass in kilns but there were not many
glass working tools or specific glass fusing supply sources. I would find some
glass fusing supplies and take them to my glass classes so my students would
have the glass tools they needed to successfully fuse glass on their
own.
I founded Fusion Glass Works in 1982 for my fused art
glass commissions. We started Fusion Headquarters, Inc. in 1987 featuring “Hard
to Find Glass Fusing Supplies” to help out my fellow glass fusers. Of course
back then all glass fusing supplies were pretty much hard to find, but we were
able to satisfy some of the most basic fused glass needs. What started as a
small flier with a handful of glass tools and glass fusing supplies has grown
over the years into a full blown catalog of fused glass supplies.
We hope that you find just the right slumping molds,
glass kilns, overglazes, glass enamels, dichroic glass, art glass cutters, glass
grinders, System 96 supplies and other glass fusing supplies and glass working tools here on the
Fusion Headquarters web site. If you don’t find what you need or if you have
special questions about how to use any of our glass fusing supplies, send us an
email and we’ll do our best to help you out. We carry the full line of Spectrum 96, Bullseye 90 COE glass, Uroboros 90 COE glass, glass kilns, system 96 and 96COE glass along with frit, confetti, glass rods, stringer and noodles.
Thank you for doing your fused glass shopping with us. If
you are not satisfied in any way with the glass fusing products you received
from us, please let us know and we will do our best to make it right. If you are
happy with Fusion Headquarters’ service, products and or information, please
tell a friend. Your good comments mean a lot to us.
