How to Carefully Cut Stained-Glass Art

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Alright, I'm going to cut another one of these curves again just to have my little piece of my pattern up here, use my Sharpie to mark the piece I want. But again, it is going to be hard to cut that curve so I'm just going to probably do a relief line here, maybe try and do one here and just kind of cut this piece first and then try and get this one second. One nice thing about the cutter is that it also kind of prepares the glass for the grozing. In other words, you can go ahead and score what you want and then break it along the relief lines and then you will find that when you are grozing that glass does want to break where you scored it. Again, I've got a curve here. I am kind of pushing my luck to try and do it in one stretch so I am going to kind of do one cut first. Again, I've got my cutter right up and down. And again, I've gone past it because you really can't just cut right angles, so I am going to get that piece first. Grip it and break it away from me. There you go. You see it breaks real clean along that score you make if you use the right amount of pressure. OK, so now I am going to make, let's see, two more cuts to get the shape I want. So I need to make this one here. This is a good little clip for you to be watching to understand really that sometimes, to get the piece you want... Oops, wrong pliers. Sometimes to get the piece you want you need to make two or three cuts and fashion it out of glass rather than a much easier task which is to just cut it, like cutting it out of paper or something. OK, so I've got really one more cut. Let me see if I can, how close to this groove I can get it. Again, up and down. There is our lovely little scratching sound. We will see how well this breaks. With any luck we will get a little bit of that curve in the break. But now, pretty good, still have those edges. So now I'm going to go to my grozing pliers again and I will find that when I use them the glass already kind of wants to break away there because it has already been scored.

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