Charlie Correll furnace for sale

[Gary Bolt]

Hi.

I hope it's okay to post things for sale here.

FOR SALE – Charlie Correll Free Standing Pot Furnace

Ten year old furnace still producing nice glass.

275 lb melting capacity (#5099 24 x 15” Engineered Ceramic Crucible).

The furnace uses a heat recuperator to pre-heat combustion air on the way to the nozzle-mix burner. The furnace is run by a programmable Partlow MIC 6000 controller and features a Honeywell Modutrol proportionater air/gas control and a UV flame monitor.

$3,000.00 Canadian (or best offer) plus shipping

The furnace is still running fine after ten years of use with a few breaks of several months.

[Gary Bolt]

Here's an image of the furnace.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i14/mornagary/Vases037.jpg

[Edward Dluzen]

Closing down or just a new furnace?

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[Gary Bolt]

Closing down after ten years of business. My partners and I have been running a studio and glass gallery called Starfish Glassworks.

[Roger Gandelman]

I just checked your website out. You make beautiful stuff. Clean and original.

[Edward Dluzen]

You do some nice work.

If you don't mind my prying, why leave the business now? There are a lot of glass people closing down this year, more then usual I think.

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[Rollin Karg]

Originally posted by Roger Gandelman
I just checked your website out. You make beautiful stuff. Clean and original.

Very good looking glass. Was your shop the one where you could watch from above?

[Pete VanderLaan]

Originally posted by Edward Dluzen
You do some nice work.

If you don't mind my prying, why leave the business now? There are a lot of glass people closing down this year, more then usual I think.

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see a million other threads on supply and demand. Sorry to hear it gary. I'm planning to spend some time in construction actually.

[Gary Bolt]

Yes, ours was the one where you could watch from above.

There are a bunch of reasons for us closing our studio. Some financial - some personal. My partners and I have run a glass studio and gallery for ten years and the gallery took so much energy that it became too hard to keep finding the energy to be creative. One of my employees is building a studio with an electric furnace and my wife and I plan to blow there instead.

We'll keep making glass, but we won't have a big business to run. The mantra for the new year is simplify.

[Roger Gandelman]

Good to hear you are going to still be making glass.
I know a few other people who have dumped their shops and are renting time instead. One guy I know seems really happy. (No insurance!!!!!...No payroll!!!!!!...No rent!!!!!...young again!!!)
He rents time, makes his glass, stops renting time, and does retail shows till it is all gone.
Interesting.

[Barb Sanderson]

Hi Gary

Sorry to hear you are closing your shop - I visited and watched from above a couple of years ago. It's interesting to hear the shop owners choosing to go back to renting and the logic behind it.

I've been renting for the last 8 years and finally have had enough. Enough of bad glass, enough of stupid people opening annealers in the middle of annealing, enough of having glass stolen, enough of schlepping all of my tools, pipes, color, paddles, etc all over the place to different shops every day.

I guess there's a price to pay on either side of the fence so it's good to hear your choices as I embark into the land of hotshop ownership (arrrrrghhhhh!)

Barb

[Gary Bolt]

Originally posted by Roger Gandelman
Good to hear you are going to still be making glass.
I know a few other people who have dumped their shops and are renting time instead. One guy I know seems really happy. (No insurance!!!!!...No payroll!!!!!!...No rent!!!!!...young again!!!)
He rents time, makes his glass, stops renting time, and does retail shows till it is all gone.
Interesting.

You, sir, are turning my frown upside down.

[Gary Bolt]

Originally posted by Barb Sanderson
Hi Gary

Sorry to hear you are closing your shop - I visited and watched from above a couple of years ago. It's interesting to hear the shop owners choosing to go back to renting and the logic behind it.

I've been renting for the last 8 years and finally have had enough. Enough of bad glass, enough of stupid people opening annealers in the middle of annealing, enough of having glass stolen, enough of schlepping all of my tools, pipes, color, paddles, etc all over the place to different shops every day.

I guess there's a price to pay on either side of the fence so it's good to hear your choices as I embark into the land of hotshop ownership (arrrrrghhhhh!)

Barb

Some of the frustrations you list about renting led to my partners and I building our studio ten years ago. The biggest reason we built our studio was the fact that there were more glassblowers than there were places for them to work where we were living (Vancouver). My partners and I were going places, career-wise, and wanted to be more in control of what we were doing. Glass quality was a huge issue for us and we dealt with that concern by buying a Charlie Correll furnace. (Sorry, but I did start this thread with hopes that I could sell my furnace on this forum and the furnace really does melt nice glass).

My wife and I are inheriting 2/3 of the equipment in our studio and we will be bringing annealers to the studio we are planning to rent bench time from. If we move on later we can take our stuff with us and meanwhile the guy who owns the studio will have a few start-up expenses taken off of his list. Some of the thing I make tie up an annealer for a week and it will be easier for me to justify that in rental land if I own the kiln that I want to tie up. He is making work that demands good glass quality and I know from working with him for the last six years that I'll be able to make anything I've made in my own studio in his studio.

[Roger Gandelman]

I've been renting for the last 8 years and finally have had enough. Enough of bad glass, enough of stupid people opening annealers in the middle of annealing, enough of having glass stolen, enough of schlepping all of my tools, pipes, color, paddles, etc all over the place to different shops every day.

The guys I know who rent time, rent from quality glass blowers (friends) with quality shops. They are not renting from public glass shops. That would be a bad thing to do if you are trying to make quality art glass. If you are going to make good glass, you have to rent from a shop that has good glass.

[Barb Sanderson]

Originally posted by Gary Bolt
He is making work that demands good glass quality and I know from working with him for the last six years that I'll be able to make anything I've made in my own studio in his studio.

That sounds like a perfect solution for all of you!

Barb

[Rollin Karg]

Gary

For what its worth, when I visited your shop a few years ago, I thought it was some of the best looking stuff I saw on the whole trip.

Good luck
Rollin

[Gary Bolt]

Thanks for the replies, folks! I sold the furnace a few days ago.

Whew!!