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Looks awesome! We need a stained glass Lemmy community, it’s one of the only things I miss about Reddit :(
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Hey thanks! And we totally do need a community here… I was hoping I’d find a fellow glasser by sharing this :) More of us will migrate over this way, hopefully someone more capable than myself can create a community for us, haha!!
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Then create it, it's not difficult.
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Making a community is easy. Keeping it fed with content takes a certain level of critical mass :(
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wow, that's very cool. so you have to cut each piece of glass for each finger bone like that?
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Thank you!
Yes, cut and grind it smooth. Then copper foil tape around the edges and solder… voila!
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Very cool, it came out great.
I coincidentally looked up glass cutting recently and found videos of people cutting window panes by scoring a line and then smacking the scored section off. Is that what you do for cutting glass curves also? Your work looks too technically precise for the smacking method I saw.
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That's really really amazing! I have an unfulfilled dream of working with glass and stained glass, but it seems to require a lot of equipment
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Thanks so much!
Glass is fun! If there is a studio near you, I recommend a class to see if you like it.
My husband surprised me with a starter setup, we are fortunate enough to have a garage to work in. Cutting glass means flying fragments and soldering creates toxic fumes, requiring a well-ventilated area. I think he spent around $300 total. There are examples of kits on here. I have not had to upgrade any of my supplies.
Good luck if you get into it, it’s tedious work but super rewarding.
Edit to add: I don’t shop from the linked site, I am in Canada and unsure of where to source my supplies now, as most stained glass is cast in the US, and I am shopping Canadian. I know Oceanside is from Mexico… If anyone has suggestions, I’m open.
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Thanks for the suggestions!!
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