How to Use Pliers in Stained-Glass Projects

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So here is kind of an irregular piece of glass. It's almost the shape I want. Here's the pattern and you see that if I put the pattern behind it, there's kind of a corner up here on the glass I don't want. There is kind of a corner here I don't want. I want to smooth that off. So, this is where the grozing pliers come in because once you get to this stage you really can't do a whole lot more with the glass cutter by breaking. Remember, what the grozing pliers do, they need to come together parallel. They act kind of like a fingernail cutter for glass and so what you want to do is get really close, line up the tips of the pliers with the piece you want to shave off and just squeeze. And you are just basically kind of chewing away at it. You definitely want to wear your glasses while you're doing this. And so I am going to groze off that edge here. And, let me just do a little bit more. There we go, now I have kind of rounded that a little bit better. Then I want to take this one off here. Again, think of it like using, kind of like a fingernail clippers. Don't try and take on too much at once because you will just kind of make, you can not only make a mess but you can break your piece. You want to be kind of gentle, just a little bit at a time, and with any luck, here we go, now my piece is a lot closer to the shape I wanted. That's what using the grozing pliers is all about. And, now this edge is still sort of rough, you can kind of see actually these chips that were taken away when we grozed it. A lot of that will disappear when we wrap it in the foil. But another thing you can do is actually grind that down and there is a couple of ways to do that. I don't have any grinding tools here today but you can use a carborundum stone which is basically like a sharpening stone and grind away at it. Or, you can get a motorized grinding wheel where you actually just put the piece of glass up against it and get a nice smooth edge. So, you can get much better results doing that but I don't have it here today. The grozing pliers did a pretty good job and most of that irregularity will disappear once we wrap it in foil.

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