Learn Where to Establish Your Cut for Stained-Glass Projects

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Okay, now we are going to cut the glass. One thing to keep in mind is a lot of glass is textured like this cathedral glass here is very textured on this side. But, it is very flat and smooth on the other side. And so when you do cutting you really want to cut on the smoothest side of the glass rather than the textured side if you can. So, I'm going to cut on this side. So, what is the first thing I do, is I put on my safety glasses. So, here they are, I put them on, don't look that stylish but I'm going to be safe. Okay, here is the glass cutter. Now, when you cut glass there are different ways you can hold it. You can hold it like a pencil. You can kind of put your one finger on top of it if you like. Some people like to pass it through their knuckle like that and hold it like that. You just want to do it in a way that is comfortable to you. The most important thing is you want it to be perpendicular to the glass when you are cutting. You really don't want to cut at an angle like this, you really want it to be straight up and down. So what I am going to do is, and sometimes it helps to stand up but actually this table is low enough where I can see it. I'm going to get it ready on my line which I drew ahead of time which I can see but you can't see it. I'm going to keep it perpendicular, and I am not going to cut yet, but I am going to pull it towards me and I am going to do it all in one motion. Because, if you start and stop and try and do it in little pieces you are making a whole bunch of different cracks and that is really not going to break well when you decide to break it. You don't have to go fast. And, the amount of pressure you apply is important. You want to hear a scratch sound while you are scoring the glass. But if you hear a grinding sound or a cracking or breaking sound you are probably pressing too hard. If you don't hear any sound you're probably not pressing hard enough. So you want to find that medium pressure where you hear a scratching sound but not a crunching or grinding sound. So, I am just going to go ahead and do this cut. I see my line. I'm going to get it up and down. I'm going to apply pressure and let's see how we do. There we go. Now, see what happened was, and you can actually see that scratch that I made and the glass isn't cut but in the next clip we are going to take the pliers and we are going to break that piece of glass and it should break right on that line.

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