Demonstrations are provided in his glass studio which is on location. Studio is 16 x 22 and has everything to produce fine glassware. Melting furnace stands 5 feet tall and is electrically operated. The furnace runs 24 hours a day and the crucible can handle 60 pounds of molten glass. It operates at 2,100 degrees and allows him to produce both blown pieces and solids..

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Next to it is another extremely hot apparatus called the "glory hole." When molten glass is taken from the furnace and rolled onto chips of colored glass then placed on a small heavy steel slab called the "cutoff plate", the mixture is inserted into the glory hole. This is where the sharp edges from the coloring glass are smoothed and the piece is shaped. The temperature in the glory hole reaches 2,200 degrees.

Behind those two high-powered machines sits a "finishing chair". This is where everything is made. Rods on which molten glass are attached are rolled back and forth until the desired shape is achieved. Then the piece is placed in the "kiln". The kiln then tempers the piece. Mr. Frye prides himself on the artistic pieces produced in his glass studio. "There's no two pieces alike. That's because I don't use any molds. Everything is made free-hand".