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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I have a friend willing to teach me and she has an extra set of tools and such I am purchasing. I am wondering if there is anyone on here that does any that may know of any neat websites to purchase designs, different glass, etc to use. Any tips for a beginner too? |
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Location: MN | I would like to know also! |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I googled a lot and found some neat free patterns for simple designs but some of the glass I see I can't readily get and am wondering if I can get it shipped in. |
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Location: In a happy place | My sister looked into this a while back and I think you can get it shipped in if I remember right. I would love to do this too. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I'm fairly crafty and love doing projects. Stained glass isn't personally my thing, but I think its really awesome that you are trying a new hobby. :) |
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Location: Central Texas | I used to make stained glass windows for a living....as in like the huge pieces you see in church. You should be able to have glass shipped to you. Be prepared to always have shards of glass in your hands. Are you just wanting to make small things like sun catcher type stuff or are you talking big windows. It can get pretty pricey to buy all the equipment. We had kilns to shape the cut glass as we started to do a lot of 3D type pieces. We had huge wet grinders to grind the cut pieces smooth, as stupid as it may look I learned to always wear the little rubber finger tips so I didn't slice my fingers open quite as often. As the operation got bigger we even got a hydraulic cutter that we had stencils for so we could make mass quantities of certain cut pieces that we used all the time. Loved that machine.
Tips - wear the little rubber thimble looking things, do not wear nice clothes. Take your time to learn how to make nice looking sauder lines, it's an art to get them all the same.
I'm not sure what else I can tell you....if you have a specific question I can probably answer it. We made most of our own designs...some even have a patent so others could not copy. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i did it years and years ago, nothing major just little stuff and i really enjoyed it................
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | Thanks for the ideas! The lady I am learning from used to make all the windows and such as well and did it for a living for years. Later she taught it and just made items privately but now has slowed down a lot. I just want to do small sun catchers and such to start off but might challenge myself later on after I get going at it. I love to paint, sketch, crochet, etc so adding glasswork to my list is super exciting. I love to make home made gifts for people too.
Luckily she has several sets of good quality lightly used equipment and is letting me grab stuff from her very reasonably, we priced stuff out and wow $$$$. But I have to grab glass, everything else.
ETA: Do you know of a good website that has the supplies and ships? I am googling that still as well.
This and leatherwork has been on my list of must learn for a while. My grandfather did leatherwork but passed away before he could teach me, he always told me we would make a saddle together. I have his tools and am determined to learn that as well.
Edited by ndiehl 2014-06-04 9:53 AM
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