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Last
month, Jeanne's book, Stained
Glass Mandalas For Meditation was
published and we held her book signing at
our art show opening at the Covey Center For The
Arts.
The show
will be up through January 27, 2011. We also
have work hanging at Ion Fitness which is
near the River Woods outdoor mall in
Provo. We'll send out an announcement when
we have a meet and greet there.
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Here
Jeanne gets ready to sign a book.
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And
here is one of the two lovely harpists who
entertained us through the evening.
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| I
graduated from college as an Industrial
Arts instructor, so I'm used to working
with all the most professional tools. When
I decided to build some shutters to fit a
window in our home, I had to rely on my
own tools. This project is more about
woodworking, but it may come in handy if
you ever need to build a frame for a piece
of glass.
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Building
A Frame For Stained Glass Shutters
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I needed the joints of the shutters
to be very strong. If I had a biscuit joiner or a doweling machine, I
could have used those. I had to resort to the tried and true method of
using wooden dowels, so I marked my wood and drilled holes as straight
as possible.
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I didn't have dowels, so I cut some little bits
using the band saw. Square dowels hold a lot of glue, so will be strong
once the glue dries.
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I filled the holes with glue so that there wouldn't
be any voids when the dowels went in.
(I filled the holes in both pieces of wood)
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Then I inserted the dowels.
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I then put both pieces together, with paper
underneath to avoid sticking the joint to the table.
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You can't see it in the photo, but at the other end
of the shutter, I nailed a stop board to the table so the shutter
wouldn't slide off as I worked on it.
I tapped the top onto both sides (at both ends
of the shutter).
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Because I didn't have long enough clamps for the
shutter, I nailed a cleat onto the table that I could use to squeeze the
shutter with short clamps. The nailer at the bottom kept the shutter in
place.
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After the clamps were in place, the top was pulled
up at a slight angle to the rest of the frame. If I left it, I would have a
lot of sanding to do.
(I wiped the excess glue off with a damp rag)
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The easy solution was to nail the top to the work
bench which held it straight.
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Here you can see the entire shutter held in place
to dry on the workbench and the bottom nailer holding the shutter in
place at the bottom.
24 hours later, I pulled the frame off of the
work bench and glued up the second one.
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I cheated and took the two frames over to a cabinet
shop where they were sanded down perfectly, in a fraction of the time it
would have taken me to do it by hand.
Then I set my router and cut a rabbit to receive
the glass.
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The results were good, leaving a rounded edge, so
the glass needed to be rounded a little to fit in place.
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I painted the shutter, using bondo to fix a knot
hole and caulked the angel windows in place.
I've started using a silicon based caulking on
the first bead that goes in the frame which the window gets bedded into.
This gives a better bond, glass to the frame. Once the window is in place I
finish off with paintable caulking.
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The finished panels look great and the shutters
won't fall apart because the woodwork is strong.
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Here they are on display, when the
show is over we'll install them in their permanent spot.
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