More glass

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 05 May 2020 11:54:13 +0000

More stained glass practice… this time it was all joined by lead came rather than copper foil/solder. It proved harder than I thought it would mainly down to a problem with the lead came, the heart of the came was off centre so it ran off at odd angles and made it difficult to hold the glass in place. As it was only a practice piece I carried on rather than order new lead (which I should maybe have done), cementing was interesting and something I need to practice a fair bit more to get a result I’m happy with. But anyway, the final piece wasn’t too bad in the end.

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Graeme Skinner — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:28:03 +0000

I’ve wanted to try my hand at stained glass for a while, but a few things put me off, the main one being that I could never cut glass whenever I tried before the glass would break anywhere but the place I’d scored it. There was only one thing I could do, buy some glass and try again…. for some reason this time I tried the glass would break along the scored line nice and cleanly – I don’t know what I did differently but at least it worked Anway, Julie gave me a book of stained glass projects for Christmas along with a set of tools so I attempted the first project in the book. The soldering is a bit questionable in places and it may not be quite square but for a first attempt it’s not turned out too badly. All I need to do now is find a chain to dangle it off.

glass – Graeme Skinner

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