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Tips For Grinding Small Stained Glass Pieces Accurately
Grinding small pieces of art glass accurately - without losing your fingers! Sometimes you have to be able to accurately grind small pieces of stained glass to get a good fit or for detailed designs. The small pieces put your fingers in the way of the grinder bit and can…
Stained Glass Studio Spaces and Cheap Tool Ideas
Stained glass studio spaces are our little piece of heaven. We obsess over how best to store stained glass sheets, how to organise work areas and how high the cutting bench should ...and that's before we get on to ingenious stained glass tools to fill them with. You know -…
Adding Hooks to Stained Glass
Making Jump Rings And Adding Hooks to Stained Glass These stained glass instructions show you how to make and solder hooks on to a zinc frame. It uses a simple, nearly invisible method of adding hooks to stained glass to allow hanging that shows off your beautiful stained glass in the best…
Tips on Lead Came for Stained Glass
Stained Glass Lead Came Made Easy Stained glass lead came comes in 6ft lengths sold in single lengths or boxes or in spools which have to be unwound and stretched before use. There are many different widths and depths and a bewildering array of profiles or ‘sections’ – for example,…
Design Original Stained Glass From Scratch
Create Your Own Stained Glass Designs Free stained glass design tutorials to get you started on making your own designs from scratch. Can't draw? No problem. There are lots of ways around it! These free stained glass design tips will get you started in a way that avoids fear. Understanding…
Stained Glass Tools and Equipment
Essential Stain Glass Tools For Copper Foil Method There’s stained glass tools for everything you could possibly want to create, but what do you really need? Here's a short explanatory video for those who want to know the answer: Essential stained glass tools for the copper foil technique To help you get your…
Soldering Copper Foil
How to Solder Stained Glass Stained glass soldering joins all your foil-wrapped pieces of glass together by running a bead of solder along each seam. It isn't the easiest technique to learn but it's one of the most exciting, as it allows you pick up and see your project for…
Making Stained Glass – Leaded Panels
Stained Glass Lead Came Tutorials These making stained glass instructions focus on the wonderful technique of leaded stained glass. If you want to make a larger panel with strong lines and surface texture, then these Lead Came Tutorials are for you. This making technique can be combined with the copper…
Making Leaded Stained Glass
Simple Instructions For Making Leaded Stained Glass This is where making leaded stained glass really gets exciting! Once you have cut all your glass pieces out, the next step is to join them together using stained glass lead came. Students of my online lead came course really enjoyed the leading…
Stained Glass Soldering – Lead Came
How To Solder Stained Glass Lead - Step By Step Tutorial Stained glass soldering is one of the most exciting steps because it allows you to pick up your panel and see the coloured light coming through it for the very first time. Woo hoo! Students of my online leaded stained…