Posted by Me on May 06, 2003 at 14:29:21:
In Reply to: New to Staind Glass posted by Jerry on September 23, 2002 at 11:19:45:
: Hi All,
: I'm just starting out with stained glass and have been practicing scoring and breaking with plain old window glass before I attempt it on nice coloured glass. This is an excellent forum and I thought I'd ask for some advice.
: My question is, I've got two books or beginers and am a bit confused with breaking techniques. One book tells you when breaking with the thumb method to pull downward and out-says it's the least likely to cause cuts. Another book tells you to break upward and out, again, least likely to cause cuts.
: Which is the correct way to do this? The practice pieces I've done so far (squares, straight lines, triangles, diamonds) I've used pliers for ALL the breaks as I'm afraid :-) The very first straight line I tried to break caused the glass to shatter as I didn't score deep enough. Glad I used the pliers or my right hand would have been cut to ribbons.
: I'm comfortable with the pliers but I know there's going to be times I'm going to have to do it bare handed. Need to get over my fear of that which should come with more practice, I hope.
: Thanks in advance,
: Jerry
Jerry- Don't feel bad, I can't do it either. Good luck bud. HAHA!!