Repairing  A Stained Glass Angel

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Glass Artists Newsletter - June 2011 More Newsletters You can read our current newsletter here on-line each month, free of charge. We hope you will take the opportunity to let your stained glass artist friends know about the newsletter and if you have students, encourage them to read it. If you'd like a reminder when a new issue is published simply send us your e-mail address. In the meantime, we welcome your input and support. Let us know if you have tips and techniques or product information you'd like to share. June seemed to come and go with a rush. All the months of pre-planning for the wedding ring ceremony made time seem to go slow and then the week of the ceremony things seemed to speed up. We got the last of the six spa panels installed and they look fabulous. Now we're learning more about video to make blogs and newsletters more interesting! Click Here For Video Clip Katherine and Ethan had a ring ceremony to  celibrate their wedding.  We built a cardinal about to land. 3 feet in diameter, I hope we can ship it!    After taking four months to complete the lamp building instruction newsletters, it seems so easy to explain the repair process on the angel gift item.     Repairing A Stained Glass Angel   This is the type of repair that I don't care for very much. This is because you start with a cheap figure that sells for 15 to 20 dollars, it costs $45 to fix it and you still end up with a poor, gifty item.  But it had sentimental value to our client and that made it worth rescuing. I didn't have the glass that would match the angel for the repair, so I fired up the kiln and made my own. The first try was a failure. I stacked pieces of white and pink on top of clear with spaghetti stringers on top of clear. They were quite warped during melting.  Going into the kiln, the second attempt, with the glass pieces underneath the clear sheet looked pretty good.  I fired the glass to 1500 degrees so I got a good flat result. The ends were quite thick. You can see that the second firing was  better than the first, although I didn't get as many pieces of colored glass in the second piece. Here's a comparison of the broken piece and the home made piece. Next time, I'll get it even closer! The original glass is called fracture-streamer glass and it is often very brittle and breaks in unexpected ways, making the craftsmanship required to cut it an art in itself. I had to redo the entire angel figure when soldering it together.  I think the drawing of the angel inspired my grand-daughter Aurora to create is even better than the original stained glass angel. The completed repair turned out well. And the client was happy with it! ARTICLES   VIDEOS  LINKS   Email:  david@gommstudios.com

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