Bronze Cup Jacks These tubes should be treated

These tubes should be treated like a newspaper shaping pad

You treat the tubes like you would treat a newspaper shaping pad

Keep them waxed up and they will last a long time

This style handle used to be quite popular in the 80’s and 90’s

The blade steel was so hard that they would screetch and scratch the glass

Bronze Cup Jacks These tubes should be treatedThis is what started it all over here at Ennion Glass Tools. The concept of using bronze occurred to me in the mid 90s when I tried a friends pair of shiny new jacks from Italy. The blade steel was so hard that they would screetch and scratch the glass. Why not use bronze I thought. Fast forward 25 years and here they are! And I was right ! These jacks are a dream to use. They work best with carnuba wax but good beeswax works well too. Use them on hot