I am creating a narrow 6' side light window made with all bevels. Someone told me to use this silvered copper foil as it is sturdier. I am using Strong Line for reinforcement. My concern is the aesthetics of the silver on the adhesive side of the foil. The patina will be black, and I am...

I JUST MADE MY FIRST PIECE OF STAINED GLASS USING COPPER FOIL TAPE AND 50/50 LEAD SOLDER. THERE ARE OVER 80 PIECES OF VARIOUS SIZES. THE PIECE IS W = 16.5 inches H = 31" The piece is to go inside a very busy bathroom cabinet door. The wood door was cut to leave a 2-2.5" frame and a 1/4" ...

Anybody know a source for replacement "rubber" tips for running pliers? I seem to go through a pair of tips every month or so. My local source says they can't get them anymore.

Greetings all, I would like to make my own rubber stoppers I have created a mold using plaster of paris, I have tried epoxy and fiberglass resin but these end up being to hard does anyone know what I can use to make softer rubber stoppers. TIA SAL

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Hi all, My experience in glasswork consists of a community college class which was about six years ago. Now I am trying to get back into it. Some of my lead lines are looking a little icky, and it seems the more I mess with them, the more I mess up an adjacent line. I just want to smooth some...

Hi there, I know that a similar question was asked not long ago, so forgive me for trying to squeeze a little extra info from you experts. How do you stretch the neck (alone) of a bottle - as I'm sure you've all seen, the neck can be stretched and twisted massively while the rest of the bottle...

I have no backgroung in glasswork, but was entranced by a glass cube (3 inch cube) that I belive was made of small prisms. A white light was shone from underneath and presumably split within the cube by the many prisms and them shone out. Each visible face of the small prisms on the outside face of...

Anybody have a good system for managing their stained glass inventory? It makes me a bit crazy, since the glass comes in sheets of so many sizes, and each with a different color and price, then add to this the fact that the amount consumed by a project may or may not leave usable pieces. Sometimes...

Dear Sirs Hi I am looking for some info on glass molds for blowing. I work for a large Lamp Co in Miami Fl one of our dept is a glass blowing and slumping.Myself I only know a little about glass as my background is mold making ceramic, silicone and the like. Even thou I helped set up the glass dept...

There is a historic home where I live that has a broken sidelight. The original panel is unusual. Rather than a leaded panel, an artist took a rectangular glass panel, beveled the outside edges, and then cut a curved.geometric pattern into the glass plate. I have seen a few similar panels; my...

Anyone try using aluminum foil, or aluminum trays in the kiln for slumping or fusing? What's it's melting temp? -- JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

I have a number of nice transferware older ceramic or china (not sure which is the correct term) dinner plates (Stafforshire- could be ironstone- whatever that means in terms of pottery and materials?) that I would like to reshape into various sizes. I didn't want to smash the lot (though many have...

Hi All I have a Glastar bench foiler - seems like a useful piece of kit. It came with wheels for 7/32 & 3/16 foil - but it'd be much more use to me if I could run 7/32 on both sides (black-backed foil on once side & copper-backed on the other). Does anybody know where I can get a spare 7/32 wheel...

Hi all, Hope you guys here can help me out. I bought a used 21" computer monitor recently and it has a small (~2mm dia) nick on the screen. It's very shallow, I can barely feel it with a fingernail, but it's very visible and annoying as it's close to the center of the screen. Is there any way to...

Hi there, I need a piece of transparent non-reflective glass, 500mm^2. A German company could provide me with it for £260 + £150 shipment!!! too much expensive for what I want to do. So maybe it’s cheaper to apply a non-reflective coating to a normal piece of glass. Does anybody know where could...

Hi there! I am just hoping to start working with borosilicate glass using a propane/oxygen torch. I am just wondering if anybody knows of a supplier of oxygen cylinders for this or similar purposes in the UK. Preferably one that is reasonably priced, however I'm not sure what the going rate for O2...

Hi, weird question, can plate glass be bent slighly without a furnace? I'm wondering about putting a slight (0.1=B0 or so) bend into the=20 centers of two pieces of 1/4" thick, 12" square plate glass. This is=20 so that the two could be pressed bowed-sides together and have a=20 slight pressure...

Search enough of the web to find glass color that I can make myself but didn't find anything useful. What metal / metal oxide do you use for make glass colors like Red, Blue, Green. Any help or pointers on the net would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have heard all the pluses and minuses about foilers, so I thought I would make my own and see if they were worth having. This took about 45 minutes to make. Modeled after the "table foiler" it surely works well. I can't believe how quickly you can foil with this...