The ChopMaster™ Story (patent pending)
The ChopMaster™ Story: In 2007, my husband, Joe, made a base unit for me that held my nippers and relived the pressure on my hands when I needed to chop glass for casting, chop organic forms for fusing, chop glass for mosaic techniques and refine glass shapes for stained glass. *
Then in 2016 I took a vitrigraph drop bowl class with Nathan Sandberg and realized that while I could pull the cane just fine, unfortunately my arthritis was too severe to cut the cane with a wheeled nipper by hand. So for the last year an engineer friend and I set out to make an attachment for the base so that it could be used to cut cane at consistent lengths with no hand strain. We also reworked the original design to be able to manufacture and sell it at a more economical price than the more expensive cane cutters that are currently available.
And that’s how the Astral Glass ChopMaster™ (Patent Pending) was born!!
Proudly manufactured in the USA in Prescott, AZ at DT Products, Inc. Small component manufacturing done by Yavapai Exceptional Industries and Astral Glass Studio, LLC.
YEIworks.com
AstralGlassStudio.com
* Original Base unit designed by Gavin Donahue for Bonnie Donahue with Donahue Designs. Base Unit Patent by Astral Glass Studio, LLC, by agreement with Gavin and Bonnie Donahue.
Then in 2016 I took a vitrigraph drop bowl class with Nathan Sandberg and realized that while I could pull the cane just fine, unfortunately my arthritis was too severe to cut the cane with a wheeled nipper by hand. So for the last year an engineer friend and I set out to make an attachment for the base so that it could be used to cut cane at consistent lengths with no hand strain. We also reworked the original design to be able to manufacture and sell it at a more economical price than the more expensive cane cutters that are currently available.
And that’s how the Astral Glass ChopMaster™ (Patent Pending) was born!!
Proudly manufactured in the USA in Prescott, AZ at DT Products, Inc. Small component manufacturing done by Yavapai Exceptional Industries and Astral Glass Studio, LLC.
YEIworks.com
AstralGlassStudio.com
* Original Base unit designed by Gavin Donahue for Bonnie Donahue with Donahue Designs. Base Unit Patent by Astral Glass Studio, LLC, by agreement with Gavin and Bonnie Donahue.
