Welcome to Walnut Creek Glass
About Us
Walnut Creek Glass is a full-line glass fabricator and installer, located below the village of Walnut Creek, Ohio.
We are family owned and operated by Bryan and Hannah Wengerd family.
We offer beveling, polishing, art and industrial glass, mirrors, store fronts, frameless showers, plastics, and specialize in custom jobs and installation. We push to maintain short, consistent lead times and quality that is unsurpassed.
Browse our website or visit our showroom for ideas and inspiration.
Reflection of Quality
Walnut Creek Glass was founded in 1990 when Wyman Wengerd set up shop in the family garage to cut glass for the local furniture industry. In a few years as the local support increased and the business grew, Wyman quit his job at Schrock’s Woodcraft. In order to increase production, he purchased an Edger to polish the edges of glass shelving and mirrors.
In 1993 Wyman’s son Bryan finished school and Wyman thought he needed to provide something for him to do, so he bought the first manual Beveling machine. At the same time...
History of Glass
Glass was first made by man in the middle of the third millennium BCE (2500BC) in the land called in antiquity Mesopotamia. The land between the rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, the area now known as Iraq and northern Syria.The full potential of this material was not immediately realized and only small beads and other small objects were made by forming or casting.
It was not until sometime before 1500 BCE that the first glass vessels were made in Western Asia, and soon thereafter in the fifteenth century in Egypt. About this time, too, glass starts to be mentioned in the writing of Mesopotamia. One of the earliest being a recipe written in Mesopotamia on a clay tablet dated between the fourteenth and twelfth centuries BCE...
