Sophie's Stained Glass | Working with Zinc Came
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2022
- Learn how to work with zinc came.
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What a stunning piece. Never worked with zinc but I was impressed with its rigidity and neatness of finish. Ooo you are clever!
Thanks Zoe! Actually I've learned a lot about working with zinc since posting this video from the comments I've had...
Loved it. Beautiful as always
Thank you so much!
Love your work. For cutting zinc came, i use a 6” powered cut off saw with an abrasive cutter wheel.these can be bought cheaply in the US at a Chinese tool suppliers called Harbor Freight for $39.
Thanks for sharing.
Loved this. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
Lovely piece! I only use zinc came and bought a little electric saw for that. I am going to try to do the experiment at my class studio. Greetings from Dallas, Texas
Hi there Texas Rosie! Enjoy!
Thank you for this. I’ve been wanting to make a stained glass garden stake but couldn’t work out how people were making them. Looks like zinc is the way to go.
After a while and in the wind, it goes a little bendy. I was thinking it would be easy enough to insert flat steels of a suitable size into the channel.
Love your channel.
So glad!
@3:32 I''ve been doing quite a bit of research, a rabbit hole now, on best methods for corners, cutting, knotching et all. Cool piece and tut vid thx!
Ticky stuff to cut without a specific tool I think.
Lovely panel! I use zinc came a lot and a chop saw comes in very handy for cutting it. Noisy, but effective and fast. Zinc will bend, but requires a pricey came bender to do it easily. I'm envious of your kiln work!
Yes I've heard they are good. Any yes, it's great to have such a big kiln.
Can you offer any advice to mikeprunty1? It's about outside my knowledge base.
@@SophiesStainedGlass Added my 2¢ to his question, for what it's worth.
If you get an angle grinder stand and fit a steel cutting blade to the grinder it will wizz through the cuts. It's good for cutting reinforced lead came too. After flux heat the zinc with the iron and then solder.
Great tips, many thanks!
In the US they sell mini miter saws specifically to cut the ends off 1" pipes that a lot of ppl use to miter the zinc came. They're about $50 too.
Yes, I think I've seen them. Sounds like a good idea if working with zinc came with any regularity.
I really like the glass piece! Very colorful, and nice simple idea! Did you get snow a couple days ago? I thought it snowed in London?
Yes, a smattering of snow. Not enough to have fun with, just enough to turn to slush and splash your ankles!!
Try using a fine tooth hacksaw blade which will not ruin your corners. A no brainer.
I did. It didn't work for me.
Thank you for the helpful video! Are you required to cement the zinc the way we do with lead came?
I'd say if it's for a window, then yes.
Beautiful! What would be the right kiln programming to do this kind of work?
I did a tack fuse to keep the texture.
Can you save the frit from on top of the leaves to use again, i noticed on this video you have an enormous kiln & i loved this piece.
The zinc is good to solder you dont burn through it like lead 😊
Can you use the same flux as with lead ?
Thanks Sophie
Yes you can!
@@SophiesStainedGlass Thankyou
@@SophiesStainedGlass Sophie is tr book out, can you tell me what it's called & can I get it on amazon ?
What kind of flux are you using? It looks like soap?
It's called tallow and it's rendered beef fat. Traditional.
have you ever made a stained glass piece entirely with zinc came? I was asked to look at one in a pub recently and am a bit nervous about taking it on as i have not been making stained glass for very long. its a fair size and 9 pieces in the bottom half have been smashed. does zinc came un-weld easily? i assume if so i could reuse the same lengths?
I wish I had more advice to give you. Perhaps someone reading this thread will jump in. Or do you have a glass shop you could ring for advice - they are usually pretty helpful. My guess would be that you could melt the solder. I'll do a quick video about melting joints cleanly. Im assuming there are no curves?
@@SophiesStainedGlass no curves thankfully. Did panels using zinc used to be called "copper lights" or am I thinking of something else? I've been glazing for 25 years and heard the phrase used a couple of times
@@mikeprunty1 not sure about copper lights. Do you think it might refer to copper foil?
@@mikeprunty1 are you American? I think zinc is more common over there.
@@SophiesStainedGlass possibly, I remember an old school glazer talking about them. He was a piss head though 😆
Tried to watch video of previous experiments. Said private video. Must have done it wrong
Not at all...it'll be out next week! Stay tuned....!
I have good results cutting zinc with a hacksaw with the finest ,most teeth per inch.
thanks.
I wonder why they call it "came". Seems like a really weird name. Don't get it.
It's from the latin calamus meaning reed or cane.
@@SophiesStainedGlass Cool. Thanks. I actually googled it, but couldn't find an explanation or meaning, because of the normal meaning of the word. I tried googling "lead came", "zinc came" and all that too, but still didn't find anything... so definitely appreciate it.
@@deucedeuce1572 it's also in my book 😉
@@SophiesStainedGlass That's cool. I'll have to check it out. Can it be read or purchased anywhere?
@@deucedeuce1572 yes. Where are you based? I can send a link.
Sophie....your glass is beautiful. Your metal work not so much. You are making zinc much too hard. Suggest you watch several of the UA-cam videos on working with zinc.
Yes - I know nothing about zinc. How do I make it easier? Share you tips please?