The 66th American Scientific Glassblower Symposium

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Ron Bihler - Began his scientific glassblowing career in 1982, working for Rocky Mountain Scientific Glassblowing until 1992. In 1992, he established Technical Glass Inc. located in Aurora Colorado. He specialized in custom quartz and borosilicate products including quartz optical cells and engineering. He developed process for CNC machine of glass and construction of optical cells with high quality fused silica AR coated optics. He continued the operation of Technical Glass Inc. until 2009 and then merged with Precision Glassblowing of Colorado. At Precision Glassblowing he is in charge of research and development, has developed, and expanded process for CNC machining laser cutting and drilling of quartz, ceramic and glassy materials.

Kevin Teaford - Kevin started his glassblowing career in 1992 at the Westinghouse-Hanford Company. After 31/2 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 Pyres 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 Workshop.