Thank you for the video! I learned some new things -- using set screws, that nifty way of cutting brass tubing, bending piano wire (?) with a torch and loop pliers, and using a nut driver for push pins. Also your workmanship is outstanding! Can't wait to watch more of your videos.
Hi Holly, So glad you are enjoying the video projects and picking up on some new tips and ideas. It's been fun sharing these projects with others and some tricks I have come up with over the past 50 years of playing with Leaded Glass projects. When you have time check out the video What do I do when not making these UA-cam videos, and you can see some of the larger projects that I have made over the past year also. Welcome to my channel and please feel free to ask me anything about these projects. Look forward to hearing from you in the future. Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
WOW!!! Bill that is a gorgeous spinner, it will be a while before I attempt that one, I absolutely love it & I think its pretty cool that a lot of these projects use off cuts, which I'm slowly accumulating & it looks so classy Thankyou so much for sharing another briiliant project, I'm not sure people here would know piano wire in our hardware stores, but I'll try see if they know 😊 Have the best day
Hi Austra, Nice to hear from you again, this is a fun project to make, you can make it any size you would like. You will have to give it a try when you get some time. It would look great in your garden!! Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Austra, All these supplies to make this spinner are from a Hobby Store, they carry all kinds of music wire or piano wire, brass tubing and set collars. All these items are used when working on model Radio Control Airplanes, R/C Cars, R/C Boats and model Railroad Trains. You must have a Hobby Supplies store somewhere close that would have these items. You can also find them on Amazon. You need (1) 36" 3/32" piano wire, (1) 36" 1/8" Brass Tubing and (1) Pkg 3/32" set collars to make this project. The wire and tubing are made by K&S Precision Metals. Hope you can find these items without too much trouble. I'm working on another spinner right now and should have it posted by early next week. It's a horizontal spinner, will be fun to see how this idea works out!! Have a great day down under!! Regards, Bill Stone
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Hi Bill, I may have to try Amazon as we live rural South Australia , Australia & we do have some stores but they don't carry what they do in the city & suburbs, but I'll find it somehow, because I really love the stuff you make it's a quality finish 😊
Hi Austra, I didn't realize you lived out in the country, is what they call living in the outback!! Hopefully you can find what you need if you decide to make this project. The new spinner I'm working on is going to be a crazy one can't wait to get it done and posted to see what my viewers think of it. Enjoy your day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi again Bill, Well, I can't explain just how nervous I have been to try this - It is my first leadlight project (in the past I have only used foil). The project went really well. I am thrilled with the outcome. My only surprise was that the weight of the lead made it difficult for the wind to blow the individual circles around - even though they spin easily if I give them a nudge. Again thank you for your great video and wonderful design
Hi Peter, I don't know how you can attach a proto on this type of a reply, I will give you an email address I use to get photos on for my UA-cam video projects. Please feel free to send your photo's to tworollingstones1962@yahoo.com I will be more than happy to look them over and give you a reply. Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Sheila, I'm glad you found my channel also and welcome!! I hope you will check out all my leaded glass projects when you have time. Please feel free to ask me anything about any of these projects. Enjoy your day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Helen, Thanks for your comment, so nice to hear from you, glad you enjoyed the video. Please always feel free to ask about any of these projects. Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Bill, I have now watched your Verticle spinner video at least 10 times and am very keen to give it a try. I love the final product; your instructions are clear and easy to understand. Any failure will clearly be in the application at this end. Two questions for you (I am having some challenges finding the suggested materials - 1.Your thought - would copper tubing (3mm) work just as well as the brass down the middle of the spinner? I realize that it will be more expensive. and 2. Do you think that I could use braided picture wire - 1.8mm as a substitute for the piano wire? I am sure that I can find set collars to fit what ever wire is used. Looking forward to reviewing more of your videos and trying the projects - Thank you again.
Hi Peter, So glad you are enjoying the video projects. The copper tubing won't work to good as it doesn't have as good a bearing surface as the brass tubing. The breaded wire also wouldn't work as you need the wire to be as stiff as possible to get the circles to turn freely on the brass tubing. I don't know where you live, but these items are all available from Amazon. They are also found at Hobby Stores that sell radio-controlled cars, boats and planes. Both the music wire and brass tubing are made by K&S Precision Metals. The collars are made by DuBro Products. You can also get them on Amazon and at Hobby Stores. Let me know what you can come up with and hopefully you can get started on your project. Please feel free to ask any questions about any of these video projects, it's been fun to share my projects with others. Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Bill, thankyou for your very prompt response and the great advice. I live in North Queensland, in a small country town with limited supplies. I had no luck finding what I was after on Amazon Australia but your details have given me a great lead. Seems that K&S Prevision Metals have an outlet in Aust. that carry the items. I will be in touch with them for more details ( they advertise the brass tube but only in 12" lengths). Hopeing that I can get all that is needed for both the vertical lollypop spinner and the 6 blades suncatcher (love them both). I have assumed that you are happy for your design to be used by others. Again my thanks, I look forward to working through all of you videos , they are a great resource for us beginners 😅. 😊 Peter R
Hi Peter, So glad that the info I sent you was helpful, hopefully you can find it in 36" lengths. If not cut down the sizes of the circles and maybe just make it have two circles instead of the three in the video. The bull's-eye spinner has only two circles in it in the center and I think the outside circle is about 9" in diameter. The 12" x1/8" brass tubing would work great for that one. The 3/32" music wire would also work for the wire part of the project. Best of luck with your project. Have a great day!! I have another subscriber from Australia, she lives in the rural south part about 6 hours from the city of Adelaide, Australia. If you read some of her comments, you can see that she has the same problem as you do trying to get supplies. Regards, Bill Stone
Hello there. I love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to teach us how to make this project. I will definitely try it. I watched it so many times already 😅. God bless you. Thank you again for your teaching. ❤
Hi Lila, Thanks for your kind words, so glad you liked the video project. It's been fun making all these crazy ideas up and see how they turn out. Sometimes I even surprise myself!! Thanks for your comment and please feel free to ask me anything about these video projects. Best of luck with your project. Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Jentaylor, Thanks for your comment and your kind words. Glad you liked the video project. Hopefully you will check out some of my other video projects on my channel when you have time. Have a great day!! I hope I didn't mess up your first name. Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Sylvia, It's been fun to share these projects with others, hopefully you will try some of these projects on your own. As always please feel free to ask my anything about these projects. Again, thanks for your comment!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi again, Nice to hear from you again, hope things are going will for you!! Try this one out when you have some time, it's a fun one and you can do so much to make it your own!! Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Rose Anne, Nice to hear from you, glad you enjoyed the video, I hope you will check out some of my other videos on my channel. Thanks for your comment and have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Tammy, I talk about the items you will need to make this project in the video. I like your idea of a list of needed items and will start to add one in my upcoming videos. The music wire is 3/32"x36" and the brass tubing is 1/8"x36", both by K&S Precision Metals and the 3/32" collars are by DU-BRO. You can find these items on Amazon or at a hobby store that sells R/C Cars, Boats and Planes. Again, thanks for your tip on an item list, great idea!! Have a great day and thanks for your comment. Regards, Bill Stone
Hi again, Nice to hear from you again. I just took a look at the video and the opening gives you a run down on how to draw up the pattern for this project. You will almost have to make the ruler with all the holes in it to get your circles to come out perfect. You can find these cheap 12" plastic rulers almost anywhere where they sell school supplies. I haven even seen them at the Dollar Store. I drilled the holes with a 1/16" drill down the center of the ruler so you can put the pencil through the hole to your drawing paper. If you want to have 12 segments on your project like the one on the video, you will need a 60-degree triangle to get the segments all the same size. If you just want to make 8 segments you can use a 45-degree tringle to get 8 segments the same size. I hope that makes sense to you. Just remember the size of the circles on your ruler is half of the size of the finished size of your circle. 3" circle would be just 1 1/2" on your ruler to finish out at 3". My wife read your comment and said she is also math challenged and ruler challenged!!! so don't feel bad!! No, I was not an engineer, always liked math in school, wasn't too good at English though!! Here again I hope that helps you out. If not send me another comment and let me know where your having trouble. Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 OH Mr Stone. the tiny circle well didn't fit too good for me. Lead is a different learning curve for me for sure. I am going back to readjust I hope
Hi Karen, So sorry to hear your having trouble with your project. Before you beat yourself up too much, if your new to making projects with lead came you didn't exactly pick the easy project to get started on!!! Where are you having trouble with the came, is it cutting it, bending it or just not having any luck getting things to fit?? If you notice in my videos, I use all kinds of jigs to help, get the lead came bent the shape I need. When putting your project together how are you holding it in place before you start to solder it? Maybe things are moving around and not holding in place is why it's not fitting like you want it too. When you made up your pattern did you allow enough room for the project to grow a little? Also, when making these circles always start in the center with your lead U Came opening facing outward, add your glass into the open channel and work your way around the inner circle. After your happy with that than wrap the outside of your circle with your U Came, when it's all lined up, then solder it together. I hope that makes some kind of since to you!! Please keep me up on your progress and best of luck!! I know you can get it worked out. Slow and steady gets the job done. Regards, Bill Stone
Hi Karen, I haven't heard from you for a while, is that good news or bad news?? Hopefully you got things to work out better for you!! Let me know if I can be of help to you in any way. Have a great day!! Regards, Bill Stone
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 good morning well the attempt was good the results were bad and I wasn't happy so I put it to the side to try it again later. I had another Master glass artist tell me that my problem is I need more time on the table and quit thinking that I can be an expert in no time.
Thank you for the video! I learned some new things -- using set screws, that nifty way of cutting brass tubing, bending piano wire (?) with a torch and loop pliers, and using a nut driver for push pins. Also your workmanship is outstanding! Can't wait to watch more of your videos.
Hi Holly,
So glad you are enjoying the video projects and picking up on some new tips and ideas. It's been fun sharing these projects with others and some tricks I have come up with over the past 50 years of playing with Leaded Glass projects. When you have time check out the video What do I do when not making these UA-cam videos, and you can see some of the larger projects that I have made over the past year also. Welcome to my channel and please feel free to ask me anything about these projects. Look forward to hearing from you in the future. Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Brilliant. Making stained glass move, takes it to another level. Many thanks.
WOW!!! Bill that is a gorgeous spinner, it will be a while before I attempt that one, I absolutely love it & I think its pretty cool that a lot of these projects use off cuts, which I'm slowly accumulating & it looks so classy
Thankyou so much for sharing another briiliant project, I'm not sure people here would know piano wire in our hardware stores, but I'll try see if they know 😊
Have the best day
Hi Austra,
Nice to hear from you again, this is a fun project to make, you can make it any size you would like. You will have to give it a try when you get some time. It would look great in your garden!! Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Thankyou Bill I will definitely try it for sure, if I can get the piano wire.
You have a great day 😁
Hi Austra,
All these supplies to make this spinner are from a Hobby Store, they carry all kinds of music wire or piano wire, brass tubing and set collars. All these items are used when working on model Radio Control Airplanes, R/C Cars, R/C Boats and model Railroad Trains. You must have a Hobby Supplies store somewhere close that would have these items. You can also find them on Amazon. You need (1) 36" 3/32" piano wire, (1) 36" 1/8" Brass Tubing and (1) Pkg 3/32" set collars to make this project. The wire and tubing are made by K&S Precision Metals. Hope you can find these items without too much trouble. I'm working on another spinner right now and should have it posted by early next week. It's a horizontal spinner, will be fun to see how this idea works out!! Have a great day down under!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Hi Bill,
I may have to try Amazon as we live rural South Australia , Australia & we do have some stores but they don't carry what they do in the city & suburbs, but I'll find it somehow, because I really love the stuff you make it's a quality finish 😊
Hi Austra,
I didn't realize you lived out in the country, is what they call living in the outback!! Hopefully you can find what you need if you decide to make this project. The new spinner I'm working on is going to be a crazy one can't wait to get it done and posted to see what my viewers think of it. Enjoy your day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Hi again Bill,
Well, I can't explain just how nervous I have been to try this - It is my first leadlight project (in the past I have only used foil). The project went really well. I am thrilled with the outcome. My only surprise was that the weight of the lead made it difficult for the wind to blow the individual circles around - even though they spin easily if I give them a nudge.
Again thank you for your great video and wonderful design
Hi Peter,
I don't know how you can attach a proto on this type of a reply, I will give you an email address I use to get photos on for my UA-cam video projects. Please feel free to send your photo's to tworollingstones1962@yahoo.com
I will be more than happy to look them over and give you a reply. Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
I am so glad I found you!
Hi Sheila,
I'm glad you found my channel also and welcome!! I hope you will check out all my leaded glass projects when you have time. Please feel free to ask me anything about any of these projects. Enjoy your day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Wow!Great project.
Hi Helen,
Thanks for your comment, so nice to hear from you, glad you enjoyed the video. Please always feel free to ask about any of these projects. Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Hi Bill, I have now watched your Verticle spinner video at least 10 times and am very keen to give it a try. I love the final product; your instructions are clear and easy to understand. Any failure will clearly be in the application at this end.
Two questions for you (I am having some challenges finding the suggested materials - 1.Your thought - would copper tubing (3mm) work just as well as the brass down the middle of the spinner? I realize that it will be more expensive. and 2. Do you think that I could use braided picture wire - 1.8mm as a substitute for the piano wire? I am sure that I can find set collars to fit what ever wire is used.
Looking forward to reviewing more of your videos and trying the projects - Thank you again.
Hi Peter,
So glad you are enjoying the video projects. The copper tubing won't work to good as it doesn't have as good a bearing surface as the brass tubing. The breaded wire also wouldn't work as you need the wire to be as stiff as possible to get the circles to turn freely on the brass tubing. I don't know where you live, but these items are all available from Amazon. They are also found at Hobby Stores that sell radio-controlled cars, boats and planes. Both the music wire and brass tubing are made by K&S Precision Metals. The collars are made by DuBro Products. You can also get them on Amazon and at Hobby Stores. Let me know what you can come up with and hopefully you can get started on your project. Please feel free to ask any questions about any of these video projects, it's been fun to share my projects with others. Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Hi Bill, thankyou for your very prompt response and the great advice. I live in North Queensland, in a small country town with limited supplies. I had no luck finding what I was after on Amazon Australia but your details have given me a great lead. Seems that K&S Prevision Metals have an outlet in Aust. that carry the items. I will be in touch with them for more details ( they advertise the brass tube but only in 12" lengths). Hopeing that I can get all that is needed for both the vertical lollypop spinner and the 6 blades suncatcher (love them both).
I have assumed that you are happy for your design to be used by others.
Again my thanks, I look forward to working through all of you videos , they are a great resource for us beginners 😅. 😊 Peter R
Hi Peter,
So glad that the info I sent you was helpful, hopefully you can find it in 36" lengths. If not cut down the sizes of the circles and maybe just make it have two circles instead of the three in the video. The bull's-eye spinner has only two circles in it in the center and I think the outside circle is about 9" in diameter. The 12" x1/8" brass tubing would work great for that one. The 3/32" music wire would also work for the wire part of the project. Best of luck with your project. Have a great day!!
I have another subscriber from Australia, she lives in the rural south part about 6 hours from the city of Adelaide, Australia. If you read some of her comments, you can see that she has the same problem as you do trying to get supplies.
Regards,
Bill Stone
Hello there. I love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to teach us how to make this project. I will definitely try it. I watched it so many times already 😅. God bless you. Thank you again for your teaching. ❤
Hi Lila,
Thanks for your kind words, so glad you liked the video project. It's been fun making all these crazy ideas up and see how they turn out. Sometimes I even surprise myself!! Thanks for your comment and please feel free to ask me anything about these video projects. Best of luck with your project. Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Gorgeous
Hi Jentaylor,
Thanks for your comment and your kind words. Glad you liked the video project. Hopefully you will check out some of my other video projects on my channel when you have time. Have a great day!! I hope I didn't mess up your first name.
Regards,
Bill Stone
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 I adore your content. Thank you for your reply !! 🙏
Hi Jentaylor,
You are more than welcome, please always feel free to ask me anything about my video projects. Have a good one!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Thank you. I enjoyed watching you make this beautiful spinner. ❤❤
Hi Sylvia,
It's been fun to share these projects with others, hopefully you will try some of these projects on your own. As always please feel free to ask my anything about these projects. Again, thanks for your comment!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Very well explained... thank you
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your comment and your kind words!! Give it a try when you have some time. Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
That's really pretty.
Hi again,
Nice to hear from you again, hope things are going will for you!! Try this one out when you have some time, it's a fun one and you can do so much to make it your own!!
Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Really nice
Hi Rose Anne,
Nice to hear from you, glad you enjoyed the video, I hope you will check out some of my other videos on my channel. Thanks for your comment and have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
Do you have a project list of supplies needed?
Hi Tammy,
I talk about the items you will need to make this project in the video. I like your idea of a list of needed items and will start to add one in my upcoming videos. The music wire is 3/32"x36" and the brass tubing is 1/8"x36", both by K&S Precision Metals and the 3/32" collars are by DU-BRO. You can find these items on Amazon or at a hobby store that sells R/C Cars, Boats and Planes. Again, thanks for your tip on an item list, great idea!! Have a great day and thanks for your comment.
Regards,
Bill Stone
omg I am trying to get this my pattern was not perfect pattern. Were you an engineer ? my math skill is really bad evidently.
Hi again,
Nice to hear from you again. I just took a look at the video and the opening gives you a run down on how to draw up the pattern for this project. You will almost have to make the ruler with all the holes in it to get your circles to come out perfect. You can find these cheap 12" plastic rulers almost anywhere where they sell school supplies. I haven even seen them at the Dollar Store. I drilled the holes with a 1/16" drill down the center of the ruler so you can put the pencil through the hole to your drawing paper. If you want to have 12 segments on your project like the one on the video, you will need a 60-degree triangle to get the segments all the same size. If you just want to make 8 segments you can use a 45-degree tringle to get 8 segments the same size. I hope that makes sense to you. Just remember the size of the circles on your ruler is half of the size of the finished size of your circle. 3" circle would be just 1 1/2" on your ruler to finish out at 3". My wife read your comment and said she is also math challenged and ruler challenged!!! so don't feel bad!! No, I was not an engineer, always liked math in school, wasn't too good at English though!! Here again I hope that helps you out. If not send me another comment and let me know where your having trouble. Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 OH Mr Stone. the tiny circle well didn't fit too good for me. Lead is a different learning curve for me for sure. I am going back to readjust I hope
Hi Karen,
So sorry to hear your having trouble with your project. Before you beat yourself up too much, if your new to making projects with lead came you didn't exactly pick the easy project to get started on!!! Where are you having trouble with the came, is it cutting it, bending it or just not having any luck getting things to fit?? If you notice in my videos, I use all kinds of jigs to help, get the lead came bent the shape I need. When putting your project together how are you holding it in place before you start to solder it? Maybe things are moving around and not holding in place is why it's not fitting like you want it too. When you made up your pattern did you allow enough room for the project to grow a little? Also, when making these circles always start in the center with your lead U Came opening facing outward, add your glass into the open channel and work your way around the inner circle. After your happy with that than wrap the outside of your circle with your U Came, when it's all lined up, then solder it together. I hope that makes some kind of since to you!! Please keep me up on your progress and best of luck!! I know you can get it worked out. Slow and steady gets the job done.
Regards,
Bill Stone
Hi Karen,
I haven't heard from you for a while, is that good news or bad news?? Hopefully you got things to work out better for you!! Let me know if I can be of help to you in any way.
Have a great day!!
Regards,
Bill Stone
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 good morning well the attempt was good the results were bad and I wasn't happy so I put it to the side to try it again later. I had another Master glass artist tell me that my problem is I need more time on the table and quit thinking that I can be an expert in no time.