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Cutting of stained glass is almost a Zen experience. You have to know if the glass is warm enough, know the proper frying bacon sound that the scoring tool makes, and trust that when you flex with your thumbs that you won't sever anything important.
When it works it feels great. When it doesn't you are left with an oddly shaped piece of pricey waste glass.
The physical parts are:
- You scratch a line into the surface of the glass with a small tool with a carbide wheel at its tip. You then flex the glass slightly over the scratch . A crack follows the scored line and you have two pieces.
- Alternately there are glass bandsaws with a small diamond imbedded wire blade that lets you saw the glass like a board.
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∙ 13y agoGlass itself is made mostly from silica (sand), sodium oxide (from soda ash), calcium oxide (from limestone), and small amounts of minor ingredients. The minor ingredients give the glass its colour - for example a little bit of gold makes the glass red.
The liquid glass is poured onto a table of molten tin to cool and sliced into saleable pieces
As for turning the glass into a stained glass design, pieces are cut out of the sheets of glass and assembled into a pattern of various colors. The glass is held together by lead strips called "came" then soldered into a finished piece.
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stained glass was first developed?
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plate tracery
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What are the names of people who painted stained glass?
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A stained glass window is a substance that transmits different what of light?
A stained glass window is a substance that transmits different colors oflight
Was stained glass invented before or after the middle ages?
stained glass was first developed?
When was Transparent Stained-Glass Windows created?
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How and where does one sell stained glass windows?
One place to sell stained glass is on EBay.
When was Behind the Stained Glass created?
Behind the Stained Glass was created on 2008-05-20.
What material is used in stained glass?
In stained glass, they use things in normal glass but add colors and make it thinner.
How do you make stained glass windows?
We need to start with a pattern to prepare a stained glass windows. The pattern is nothing but an image that we want to create on the stained glass window. The following are the steps for the same.Cut a stained glass piece which is slightly larger than the dimensions of your windowDraw the pattern on the stained glass piece.Cut the glass piece along the edges of the pattern drawn in step 2Put the pieces back together and solder themThat's it. Your stained glass window is ready.
