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::From: WesG [mailto:wesg@g...] 
::Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 11:34 AM
::To: w.taggart@v...
::Cc: 'cowtown_eric'; oldtools@r...
::Subject: Re: [OldTools] weekend trash/treasures
::
::Bill,
::I've seen what you're describing done with *hand* shears, 
::(tin snips)  
::but I can't imagine anybody hefting a pair of twenty-plus pound  
::shears sideways and clipping semi-molten glass.
::That's not to say that it can't be done, but since the glass is  
::oozing in a vertical direction and these shears weigh A LOT and they  
::have no secure means of holding them... I'm going to call a  
::"technical foul" and await a photograph as proof that what you say  
::actually happens in the real world.
::The gauntlet has been dropped.

Weeeeeeellll - I'm nearly positive I have seen depictions of similar -
perhaps not identical, but similar - shears used in the making of olde-timey
window glass via the cylinder method.  They would blow a large cylinder of
glass, and cut the end off.  Then the shears would be used to cut the
cylinder up one side, and it would be unrolled, leaving a large rectangle of
flat glass.  

I'm searching for a decent depiction of the process.  I've found it
described in texts all the way back to the 18th Century, but no good
pictures or drawings yet.  

- Bill T.

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