How to Score Stained Glass

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ALLISON KLINGER: On behalf of ExpertVillage.com, my name is Allison at Western Art Glass. And in this segment, I'm going to show you how to cut glass, or the more correct way of saying it is I'm going to show you how to score glass and break it to make it look like you've cut glass. Basically, this is a glass cutter. What it does is that it has a wheel here and it's going to score the glass and/or weaken it to make the glass break away from each other, okay? So anyway, if you've never cut glass before, you want to practice on window glass, okay? Apply some of your pattern pieces to this glass, and then you're going to go for the sound of paper tearing, okay? I've got my glass cutter, my grozier-breaker pliers as well as my running pliers, okay? I'll show you how those work. First things first, I want to give myself some room on the glass to cut it apart. Here's my running pliers. I'm going to put them on that score line. I'm going to make that score line run and break apart, okay? I also want to get the glass away from each other for our pattern pieces to go before I start cutting them out. So anyway, do that and that. It's really fun, okay? What you need now, you need to score the glass from edge to edge. You can't start in the middle or stop in the middle. Edge to edge. Glass likes to break straight. Get that through your head first and your cutting will go much easier from there, okay? Like I said, edge to edge. Check it out, and you go edge to edge. I'm going to follow the paper pattern and, this time, I'm just going to use my knuckles, okay? If that kind of scares you a little bit, then you can use these running pliers like that. Edge to edge, remember. Running pliers are key--available from your local stained glass store. Go check them out. If you don't have one too close, find the time to drive there. It's well worth it. I'm going to use my pliers on this one, okay? Just to show you a different tool, like that, okay? I'm going to gradually cut this thing out. So check it out. See you in the next segment.

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