How to Clean Up Small Glass Pieces, Fibers & Shards

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Okay, now all my pieces are cut and here they are. They are kind of all laid out. Somewhat rough cut, I could kind of polish and grind the edges if I wanted to get them a little more accurate but a lot of the rough edges are going to disappear when we put the foil on them. So we got all that cut so now I can take my glasses off, it is nice to get them off. And now on my table I have little pieces of glass all over the place. Some of them are mistakes, pieces that did not quite cut like I wanted them to. Some of them are just pieces that were grozed off using the grozing pliers and some of them are really, really small. What I like to do is save the larger pieces because you never know. There might be a project in the future where you might need kind of a piece and you have a scrap that is just the right size. So, I kind of like to save the larger pieces and even if you never have a use for those pieces, one kind of fun thing to do when you just want to play around with stained glass is to just take scraps, wrap them up in foil, and just assemble them in kind of a free form way. I could wrap some of these scraps up in foil without cutting them anymore, kind of assemble them in sort of a free form way, solder them together and you can get nice little abstract window hangers but we are not going to do that now. I am going to collect all the scraps that I think I might use some day. You can throw them away if you want to but, you might regret it some day when you need a piece that looks just like that, in yellow, and you know that you threw it away. And then, once you have kind of large pieces, the ones that look like they might be useful, what is going to be left over is a lot of pieces that are not going to be useful. So you can throw these smaller pieces away but most importantly there is going to be a lot of little pieces that are dangerous. I mean dangerous. You can get them in your skin, they can embed deep into your foot if they fall on the floor. I mean look at this one here, this is basically a needle of glass. So, to clean this up you want to either use a vacuum or you can start by maybe using a piece of sticky tape, or you could use a little hand broom and a dust pan but you really want to clean up all those little pieces of glass before you keep going.

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