Stained Glass Tips

Information about techniques, tools, materials, copper foil, leading, painting, and all things stained glass.

Contents

  • Copper Foil
  • Leaded Glass
  • Materials
  • Techniques
  • Tools

Copper Foil

Foiling

  • Foil allowance
  • Small pieces
  • Widths
  • Wide foil and strength
  • Thickness
  • Hand foiling
  • Strength of foiled windows
  • Backing colour
  • Spacing pieces
  • Nuggets
  • Combining foil and lead came
  • Tight curves
  • Foil splits
  • Foiling edges
  • Hinges
  • Combining Lead and Copper foil
  • Assembly
  • Hanging sun catchers
  • Wires for hanging
  • Limitations

Soldering 

  • Temperatures
  • Running beads
  • smooth solder beads
  • Even solder beads
  • Foil soldering
  • Edge foil
  • Touch the foil
  • Beading edges
  • White corrosion
  • Suncatcher hanging points
  • Fragile glass
  • Filling gaps
  • Foil not covered
  • Liquid flux
  • Assembly

Patination

  • Method and materials
  • Application
  • Patina treatments

Cleaning and Polishing

  • Cleaning solder beads
  • Waxing solder lines
  • Polishing solder lines 
  • Painted surfaces
  • Cleaning multiple small pieces

Three Dimensional Projects

  • Plating
  • Soldering

Boxes

  • Box hinges

Lampshades

  • Lampshades
  • Cartooning tools
  • Placing design on the form
  • Lampshade pattern templates
  • Applying lampshade patterns to moulds
  • Attaching a spider
  • Tinning brass
  • Tinning vase caps
  • Fitting vase caps
  • Attaching vase caps
  • Lamp panel lengths
  • Panel lampshade dimensions
  • Reinforcing

Repairs

  • Foil splits
  • Panel repairs

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  • Materials
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  • Copper Foil
  • Leaded Glass

Labels

  • Abstraction
  • Acid Etching
  • Acids
  • Acute angles
  • Body Cast
  • Border lead came
  • Bottle cutting
  • Brushes
  • Cames
  • Cartoons
  • Circles
  • Cleaning
  • Cleaning panels
  • Cold working
  • Colour
  • Concave shapes
  • Concrete mix
  • Convex shapes
  • Copper foil
  • Corners
  • Curves
  • Cutting oil
  • Cutting surfaces
  • Decorative lead
  • Design practice
  • Diagonals
  • Direct cutting
  • Display
  • Dressing came
  • Eutectic solders
  • Exhibitions
  • False lines
  • Flux
  • Frit drawings
  • Glass Grinders
  • Glass Strips
  • Glass adjustment
  • Glass breaking pliers
  • Glass cutters
  • Glass cutting
  • Glass easel
  • Glass pressing
  • Glass tips
  • Glazing bars
  • Grinding
  • Grinding Heads
  • Grozing pliers
  • Hinges
  • Irregular openings
  • Lamp moulds
  • Lamp shades
  • Lead Came
  • Lead free solder
  • Lead knives
  • Lead snips
  • Leaded Glass Tips
  • Leading
  • Light boxes
  • Light sheets
  • Line
  • Maintenance
  • Measuring
  • Mitre shears
  • Moulds
  • Ovals
  • Overlapping panels
  • Packaging and Crating
  • Panel lamps shades
  • Panels
  • Patina
  • Pattern scissors
  • Patterns
  • Plinths
  • Polishing came
  • Polishing solder
  • Quarries
  • Radiating lines
  • Rebates
  • Refining cut edges
  • Reinforcements
  • Roofing iron
  • Running pliers
  • Safety
  • Sculpting came
  • Silhouettes
  • Solder beads
  • Soldering
  • Soldering irons
  • Squaring a panel
  • Stepping stones
  • Stone openings
  • Structural strength
  • Stud bolt removers
  • Tapers
  • Templates
  • Tie wires
  • Tile saw cutting
  • Tinning
  • Tools
  • Tucking cames
  • Turntables
  • Vase caps
  • Vermiculite Moulds
  • Water Reservoir
  • Waxing
  • Waxing up
  • Weaving cames
  • Weaving lead
  • Wheel pullers
  • Wide came
  • Zinc came
  • drilling glass
  • lead light cement
  • schedules
  • scoring glass
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