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

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