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Summary: Pliers can allow you to safely pick up or remove various pieces of stained glass. Learn more about working with stained glass in this free video series.
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Questions & AnswersOkay it is also good to have a second set of pliers where the tips are flat and square and do come together parallel when they are closed and so look at these. This is kind of a more normal set of pliers and in fact these are not even sold for stained glass but you can get ones that are sold for stained glass, they are called grozing pliers and I will explain that to you why in a moment and grozing pliers, they won't have kind of this, sort of this, you know round area here like this set does and they will still have these flat kind of parallel pieces that come together. They are serrated, I will turn this a little so you can see they are actually serrated on the end and sides so that you have a bit of a grip. Ones that are sold for stained glass especially will often, that this area will be longer, even maybe up to an inch or more, but still the key is that they come together parallel. And what those pliers are used for are if you cut a piece of glass and it has a sort of irregular edge, like let's say that the cut is not as clean as you would like it to be, there is still some little bits of glass sticking out. Oftentimes you have that problem when you cut curves, you use the grozing pliers with your safety glasses obviously to basically on a very fine scale grab and cut and break off and nip off little pieces of glass that are making that cut irregular so think of it as kind of, almost like a set of fingernail clippers that you use to trim down glass if your cut is not as smooth as you would like it to be. So again, your breaking pliers the tip, the tips don't come together parallel, they come together at an angle, just at the very tip, they tend to be sort of broad, your grozing pliers will come together parallel, they are flat, they have serration here, and you using them for cleaning up irregular cuts.
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