How to Work Safely with Stained Glass

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Okay, so now let's start talking about equipment. The number one piece of equipment that I recommend that you have is a pair of safety glasses and you know they don't always look cool. In fact actually now-a-days they are starting to make some that do look more and more cool. This one has a black rim on it, so, I mean it's not tremendously cool, but they are making some with different colors, you know purple and pink and yellow and they even make them in kind of cats eyes and so they are making them more and more cool all the time but of course it is not about style it is about safety. That is why they are called safety glasses and the reason you really you need to, you know you don't need to wear safety glasses all the time. But in stained glass we are doing a lot of things like cutting glass, breaking glass, manipulating glass, grinding glass and in every one of those steps there is a risk in, of a piece, a small piece of glass flying up toward your eye or maybe a break happening when you didn't mean it to. So really any time you are cutting or grinding glass or doing what we call grosing, which is kind of smoothing off the edge of the glass, we will talk about that later you really want to be wearing the safety glasses. Now I don't enjoy wearing safety glasses anymore than you do but protecting your eyes is pretty important. If you wear regular glasses, I mean I wear contact lenses, but if you wear regular glasses those will offer some protection and in fact I would maybe say that if you wear regular glasses and you keep all your work right in front of you, you might be okay. Of course the nice thing about safety glasses is that they also protect the sides of your eyes here and so when you have them on, not only are they very large and sort of protecting your eyes but they also protect the sides and so when I am doing stained glass I don't wear them all the time but I certainly wear them when I cut glass, when I break glass and when I am doing things like grinding and polishing.

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