Thank you so much for your videos! They're the most detailed ones that I've seen so far! I'm planning on making a little glass art present for my parent's anniversary and your videos have been such wonderful help
👋 hi! I am a new viewer as well as new to stained glass as a hobby. I noticed you don’t use gloves 🧤and wear your jewellery. So there’s no tiny pieces of glass that get in your hands we need to worry about? That sure would be nice. So I’m 49, and had a couple years of metal shop in high school, (I know odd for the time)anyhow, I learned to weld. We weren’t allowed to keep anything like rings and bracelets on, even when just gas welding, for we wouldn’t want to have accidents. Is this not an issue when working with a soldering iron, came, and foils? Thanks for these awesome educational videos! I’m learning so much! Oh ps- I just picked up a ladies stained glass supplies on marketplace, I scored all her glass, tools, a grinder with larger additional work surface, eye protection, and an extra diamond bit, and all her tools, including a pistol grip cutter, glass cutting oil, and came cutters, foil and whatnot. She had a box full of large sheets of old church glass she’d scored she gave to me. Its absolutely lovely and textured- is there any Special care with it being more aged? Ty!
You will get cuts from the glass. Glass cuts are very clean and generally do not cause an infection. However, they take a while to stop bleeding. I don't get glass stuck between my jewelry. I just put alcohol or hydrogen peroxide on a cut and use a Bandaid till the bleeding stops. Occasionally I get a student who will wear a glove on one or both hands so not to get cuts. Usually this is because they have a medical condition. (Like lymph node removal for breast cancer and don't want to risk lymphedema from a cut.) I do wear gloves when soldering and patinaing. If you solder and have open cuts on your hands, lead from the solder can get into your system. You can get selenium poisoning from the black patina if it gets absorbed through your skin.
Easiest way is a disc grinder, but they are very expensive. Next option is to hold the glass up horizontally in front of your eyes, and mark any areas that are higher than the rest of the plane the glass edge is in. Then lightly grind those high points.
Best black marker is the Staedtler Lumocolor Permanent black marker. On dark glass, I use silver Sharpies. Make sure you draw with the pen perpendicular to the glass when tracing your pattern. Then the pen won't run under your pattern. If the silver Sharpie runs under the pattern on you, you can let it dry, and draw over the silver with the Staedtler black pen.
It is a cutter made by Silberschnitt, which is a Germany company. They stopped making them about 8 years ago. I tried to have friends get some in Germany, but not available there either.
My patterns are made of transparencies. I put the pattern in my copier and print out a copy on 11x17" transparencies. The only company I've found that makes transparencies that big is CISinks on Amazaon.
The smooth side. (It is the top side of the glass when the sheet glass is made.) If both sides are relatively smooth, you pick the shinier side. For example: with Oceanside Glass and Tile glass like OGT357.1 red/white, this is considered smooth on both sides and you cut on the side that has a slight swirl texture on it and has the OGT label on it. This side is shinier. OGT Waterglass is actually considered smooth on both sides, and the shinier side is the wavy side. So you actually cut it on the wavy side.
Thank you so much for your videos! They're the most detailed ones that I've seen so far! I'm planning on making a little glass art present for my parent's anniversary and your videos have been such wonderful help
Did an excellent job explaining as you go along. 😊
Thank you so much for doing these videos! There are no classes in my town so you are my teacher...and an excellent one too!
Very comprehensive - thank you so much for taking your time to make this video for all of us but especially us beginners.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom!!
Beautiful ring!
Really informative! Thank you! ❤
Great information! Thank you!
Thanks so much!! Great, useful tips!
Very helpful....xx
Super video, i love it, thanks for sharing your work! Can you tell how many types of glass you using , please? Thank you!
I don't know what you mean by types. I'm using different brands...Oceanside Glass & Tile, Bullseye, and Uroboros glass. All are around 1/8" thick.
Amazing. Thank you so much. Do you have videos for tile mosaics?
No I don't.
👋 hi! I am a new viewer as well as new to stained glass as a hobby.
I noticed you don’t use gloves 🧤and wear your jewellery.
So there’s no tiny pieces of glass that get in your hands we need to worry about? That sure would be nice.
So I’m 49, and had a couple years of metal shop in high school, (I know odd for the time)anyhow, I learned to weld. We weren’t allowed to keep anything like rings and bracelets on, even when just gas welding, for we wouldn’t want to have accidents.
Is this not an issue when working with a soldering iron, came, and foils?
Thanks for these awesome educational videos! I’m learning so much!
Oh ps- I just picked up a ladies stained glass supplies on marketplace, I scored all her glass,
tools, a grinder with larger additional work surface, eye protection, and an extra diamond bit, and all her tools, including a pistol grip cutter, glass cutting oil, and came cutters, foil and whatnot.
She had a box full of large sheets of old church glass she’d scored she gave to me. Its absolutely lovely and textured- is there any
Special care with it being more aged? Ty!
You will get cuts from the glass. Glass cuts are very clean and generally do not cause an infection. However, they take a while to stop bleeding. I don't get glass stuck between my jewelry. I just put alcohol or hydrogen peroxide on a cut and use a Bandaid till the bleeding stops. Occasionally I get a student who will wear a glove on one or both hands so not to get cuts. Usually this is because they have a medical condition. (Like lymph node removal for breast cancer and don't want to risk lymphedema from a cut.) I do wear gloves when soldering and patinaing. If you solder and have open cuts on your hands, lead from the solder can get into your system. You can get selenium poisoning from the black patina if it gets absorbed through your skin.
How do you grind perfect straight lines and edges?
Easiest way is a disc grinder, but they are very expensive. Next option is to hold the glass up horizontally in front of your eyes, and mark any areas that are higher than the rest of the plane the glass edge is in. Then lightly grind those high points.
being new what is the best marker to use when grinding? I've used sharpie and paint marker and they come while grinding
Best black marker is the Staedtler Lumocolor Permanent black marker. On dark glass, I use silver Sharpies. Make sure you draw with the pen perpendicular to the glass when tracing your pattern. Then the pen won't run under your pattern. If the silver Sharpie runs under the pattern on you, you can let it dry, and draw over the silver with the Staedtler black pen.
I love your glass cutter with the 'bulbous' handle.. What is is called and where can I buy one?
Amazon
It is a cutter made by Silberschnitt, which is a Germany company. They stopped making them about 8 years ago. I tried to have friends get some in Germany, but not available there either.
Do you know where to find parts for the grinder? Im missing the white part behind the bit.
No I do not. Glastar had a fire fall of 2021 and is currently not open.
Do you save the excess glass to use on another project?
I save smaller pieces about 4x4" for students or for stained glass snowflakes.
So you don’t have to grind all the edges to smooth them out?
No.
Where do you get the glass?
D and L Art Glass in Denver.
What material is your pattern made of? Was it printed out?
My patterns are made of transparencies. I put the pattern in my copier and print out a copy on 11x17" transparencies. The only company I've found that makes transparencies that big is CISinks on Amazaon.
WHAT SIDE OF THE GLASS ARE YOU CUTTING ON?
The smooth side. (It is the top side of the glass when the sheet glass is made.) If both sides are relatively smooth, you pick the shinier side. For example: with Oceanside Glass and Tile glass like OGT357.1 red/white, this is considered smooth on both sides and you cut on the side that has a slight swirl texture on it and has the OGT label on it. This side is shinier. OGT Waterglass is actually considered smooth on both sides, and the shinier side is the wavy side. So you actually cut it on the wavy side.
Me gustaría que si pudiera poner en español gracias saludos
Head on filming would be easier to see how you actual hold/and cut