The first stained glass cost saving tip is really simple. Try using kerosene or sewing machine oil instead of the relatively expensive cutting oil sold in stained glass stores.
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The BEST thing about stained glass cost-saving tips is that they leave you more $$ for glass, beautiful stained glass. Below you&#;ll find a series of cost saving tips. I hope you find them useful. Feel free to share your #1 tip at the bottom of the page &#;
The biggest savings to be made when cutting glass are by placing your templates in the right position so that you waste less glass.
Sometimes the barrels of the cutters leak. Rather than waste oil try using a little jar with a bit of sponge soaked in oil. You can put the lid on and use it as and when needed.
Make one cut along the length of the glass and then across for each of the pieces.
There&#;s a lot of wasted glass all around the edges of the random shapes. If you have a lot of similar size shapes, you can put them all in a row. Choose the strip of glass that you like, thinking about the grain direction and colour.
Can you see the difference between placing the glass randomly (left in the photo above) and neatly in a line (right, above)?
To do this, join them together by holding your iron tip flat over over the two ends until they melt. Leave it for a few seconds to let it cool and harden. And then you&#;ve got an elongated mega stick with no wastage!
Don&#;t throw away those annoying little bits of stained glass solder that get left at the end. Simply join it together with your longer solder stick.
If you don&#;t have a local class my Stained Glass Made Perfect course has helped many beginners and refreshers nail the essential techniques and and go on to find success with more ambitious projects. The course is self-paced and online so you can learn these techniques even if you can&#;t easily get to a class. You can find out more about it here Stained Glass Made Perfect .
If you&#;re new to stained glass or coming back to it after a break there are many tips and tricks you can learn to make it easier &#; and cheaper! &#; for yourself.
When you cut the shapes, do the inside curve first, making it one of your cuts. Then do the top side. Remember that you have to go from one edge of the glass to the other to make a successful cut. By doing it this way you only use about 1/3 of the sheet rather Speaker 2: than about 1/2.
A huge 2/3rds of that hobby cut have already been saved! And you&#;re left with that little nice bit at the bottom that can be used too.
Jump rings are quite expensive to buy but this stained glass cost saving tip will shows you how to make your own.
And there you have it, a handful of cheap jump rings at sizes to suit your projects &#;
Do you find the cork backed steel rulers for cutting glass a little bit expensive AND too shallow? If so, here&#;s how to use materials to make your own cheaply and the correct height.
Can you see from the video that a regular steel rule is too slippery and not high enough off the glass surface to be any good when cutting stained glass?
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One of the constant problems when making stained glass is managing to hold everything together and in the right place. You have to keep things still, make angles and generally make sure that the piece doesn&#;t move in the making. Unless you&#;re an octopus, this is tricky!
Reader Georgia Hamilton has very kindly put together an ingenious variety of ideas to hold things in place that use inexpensive or everyday items. She has taken photos and explains how she uses them below. So useful, thank you SO much Georgia!
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Above are some of the items Georgia uses for holding things in place and at angles. Coins are great for levelling pieces and the aluminium Morton strips can be used for angling things like butterfly wings when soldering.
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These scissor-looking things are called Hemostat clamps. You can buy them online for about $5. You can get them at fabrics stores and sometimes pet stores. What works well for stained glass is that they don&#;t require you to hold them closed because they latch together. Also, they&#;re very narrow so can be use for small delicate items.
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Clothes pins are also handy and readily available. Plus, like the hemostat clamps, they are a reverse clamp, so you don&#;t have to hold them closed like you do pliers.
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Blue painter&#;s tape is great for all kinds of things. You can tape down wire embellishments and solder them in place. The tape removes easily, doesn&#;t melt and solder doesn&#;t stick to it.
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The clamp in the front is just scrap 2×4&#;s held together with rubber bands. The back items are 2 bricks that Georgia glued felt to. They&#;re heavy enough to hold larger things upright without falling over. The felt protects the glass and solder from getting scratched.
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Georgia makes these mini sandbags using a cheapie canvas dropcloth to cut squares from. Cotton canvas is more flame resistant and the sand won&#;t melt or break down. Plus it is softer than beans. She cuts four squares for each bag to make them doubly thick. She then sews them up with double seams and fills with sand.
They&#;re handy for positioning items at an angle or when you have projects with nuggets, jewels or bevels that stick out on one side of the piece and you need to solder the back. These keep things level and protect the jewels.
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Georgia prefers loops with tails rather than simple rings. They&#;re much more secure because they&#;re soldered into a seam. They can be pinned into position and soldered in place without needing to grasp anything with pliers.
I started playing around with glass lamination because it's the method people use to make solar panels that last twenty-five years outdoors, and my friend Shawn and I are on a mission to make the best small-scale solar panels the world has ever seen. If you make your own solar panels from scratch ( here are some lovely instructables we wrote to show you how to do that), you can encapsulate your panels in glass and EVA to make waterproof, long-lived panels. Here's an image of the first test panel I made using this method.You can also put other stuff into the glass. I played around with laminated leaves and flowers from my garden in between a couple pieces of EVA inside the glass. I'm particularly pleased with how my canteloupe flower turned out. Wouldn't it be cool if your car windshield had flowers built into it? Play around with it! Shove all kinds of stuff into the glass. Adhere glass and EVA to the front of a surface-mount circuit board to make lovely, glass-fronted PCBs that everyone will love. Stick glass slides to your walls. Stack two glass panes and some spacers together to make your own double-glazed windows. Go nuts!Well, that's what I've got for now. Go forth and DO stuff!
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