How to Mark Your Stained-Glass Pattern on Your Glass

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Okay, so now I've got my pattern all cut out. Here it is, like a little jig-saw puzzle on the table. I've got it assembled correctly, right, because I numbered it ahead of time. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. I could have numbered it anyway I want. But, something else I did. I did it off camera, you didn't see me do it, is I drew a little plan, a little sketch, just to remind myself how they all go together. Because remember, you really have to put it back together. You have to cut the pieces to the pattern and put it back together the same way the pattern was cut, if you want it to fit together because, even though a lot of these pieces are the same shape, approximately, if you mix them up you can sometimes find that things don't fit like you think they are going to. Alright, so we got it all cut. Now, let me just kind of go generally through the basics of what we are going to do and then we will go through it step by step. So, for example I have decided that pieces number three and six, these two rectangles, are going to be blue. So here's my piece of blue. So, basically what I am going to do, you will see this in future clips, is I am going to take these pieces one at a time. And remember, I cut on the outsides of the Sharpie line so that, for a little bit of allowance for the tape and the solder. So you can see that a lot of these internal Sharpie lines are gone, they've been cut away, so that's good. But, I am going to take a piece of the pattern, I'm going to lay it on the glass one way or the other, it doesn't really matter. I'm going to mark the glass with either a Sharpie or a permanent pen if it is a light colored glass. This is a darker colored glass so I might want to use a grease based, like china marker. I just have kind of a white oil pastel here which will show it up on dark glass. Then I cut the glass, and I do that with every piece. And once I have all those pieces of glass then I can begin assembling. So, in the next clip we will talk about setting up a piece of glass for cutting.

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