VS Eyewear carries lens types for every glassblowing, lampworking and glass working application as well as quartz and welding applications. Deciding on a lens type for lampworking, glassblowing safety glasses or glass working safety glasses
usually requires you to element in how dark you need the lens and what forms of noticeable or invisible lighting you have to protect against for the glass working application.
Glass Working Lenses and Glasses
In general, the forms of light that glass workers have to protect are sodium flare, ultraviolet (UV) lighting, and infrared (IR) lighting. We have filters to safeguard against various combinations of the harmful waves.
Here are the normal methods our lenses for glassblowing safety eyeglasses are used:
Here are the normal methods our lenses for glassblowing safety eyeglasses are used:
- Light green lenses are employed by people doing hand glassblowing typically, glory hole work, and furnace work.
- Dark green lenses are employed for quartz functioning typically. The lenses normally used are shade #6 or #8 with the latter being darker.
- ACE 202 lenses are called didymium lenses furthermore. They are typically useful for torch work connected with bead producing and silver soldering. They come in regular glasses or plastic clip-on flip-ups for attaching to your current eyewear. They are also available in over prescription eyewear and prescription glasses. These glasses are still the preferred glassworking material for our scientific glassblowers.
- Green ACE lenses are used for working with borosilicate glass. They are often called “Boro” lenses and are available in shade 3 and a darker shade 5. Shade 3 is typically used for smaller work such as marbles, while shade 5 is more often used for larger work such as candlesticks, figures, or big scientific pieces. The Green Ace glasses should be used when you are fuming or working with certain borosilicate colors.
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Any of our lenses can be augmented by our plastic clip-on welders shades. They offer UV and IR safety and also added darkness to protect from bright torches. They are available from a shade #2 up to a shade #8.
- Light green lenses certainly are a light welding lens. They drive back IR and UV, plus they block some quantity of visible light (similar to sunglasses).
- Dark green lenses are dark welding lenses. We usually offer you these in split-lens glasses, where there is a lighter lens on top and a dark green lens on the bottom of the glasses.
- ACE 202 lenses block sodium flare and UV. Most types of glass give off sodium flare during torch work.
- Green ACE, or “Boro” lenses, protect from sodium flare, UV, and IR. They are available in colors 3 and 5. They are made by combining our ACE 202 lens material and green lens material during the glass melting process
No matter what type of lampworking with soft glass, borosilicate hard glass, quartzworking and glassblowing you do, we have the right protective eyewear for you.
A very special thank you to Artist and Scientific Glassblower Tim Drier for allowing me to use his photos and display a small portion of his work!