Sunday, March 30, 2008

Soldering


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Now that enough of the window has been cut, smoothed and foiled the pieces can be soldered together.

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The tools:


#1 - The ritual pouring of the blue stuff.




#2 - Okay, so what is the blue stuff for???



#2 - Soldering in action!



#3 - Soldering : Can it get more fun than this!



Okay, so lets see what it looks like ... oh, oh ...it's gone!



oh no! There it is!!



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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Foiling the Glass


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After the glass is cut and smoothed foil is applied around the edge of the glass. This will provide the bond to hold all the glass together.

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Video 1 - (1min 12s)

Video 2 - (1min 26s)






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Friday, March 21, 2008

Cutting One Piece of Glass


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Here one piece of glass is cut. 

Follow the action from cutting the paper design to scarring the glass!! 



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First, the tools are prepared!



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the design template one piece is cut out.

  

 The paper is then placed on the glass and the outline drawn out in black ink.

 

 

    

 

 

 The glass is then scarred around the outline.

 

 

Then with the clippers the glass is shaped.

 

 

 

One down, about 700 pieces to go!! 

 

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The Savannah Window Project


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Okay, first off, its not me doing this - I'm just taking the pictures. This is a progress update for Vicki for being such a good host when we visited Savannah.

Here is the artiste in her studio (the garage!).


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