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Summary: Learn how to cut the glass lens for a kaleidoscope lens into shape with expert crafting tips in this free online kaleidoscope making video clip.
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Questions & AnswersBen Ganyo here for Expert Village and we're going to make a kaleidoscope. Right now we are going to cut our own glass. If you don't want to use the shortcut method I showed you of buying the little glass squares and gluing them to the popsicle stick and you really feel adventurous and want to cut your own glass. So, we got a picece of glass. Now, this is a little bit smaller than what you're going to actually use--you probably want to use one that's three to four inches long so you get your one long piece, but this is essentially the process. Take the glass and take a straight edge--we're using a T-Square. This is a glass cutter. You can get it at Home Depot or a glass shop--anywhere. They're just like six dollars. And you're going to cut like this. You only want to do one pass because what happens is if you do more than one pass it could make little shards of glass or imperfect pieces. You want to get one straight line and you want to make it go perpendicular down on to the glass, perfectly straight up and down. So once you put it down just a touch before the edge, you want to press very good and hard on it. And run right off the end. And then you just take it and press it on the...you're going to hold the part that you cut and you're going to break that away from the whole rest of the piece. So you just snap back and there's our piece of glass cut just the way we wanted it--not too difficult.
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