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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
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students, encourage them to read it.
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Jeanne's
working on a new design that she hopes
will be accepted in a show. It's of a
stunning portrait of our daughter taken
when she was attending beauty school.
Here's
the portrait she's working from.
We
think it's rather intriguing.
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We
shot some video of another technique for
making holes in glass for a future
newsletter.
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Jeanne
demonstrated a technique for signing our
glass that will become a future
newsletter.
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Last month
we showed how to use a ring saw and this
month we show how to drill holes in stained
glass. I got an e-mail from an artist
wanting to know how to drill a hole in
glass. That prompted me to do a video
demonstrating the process.
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Drill
Holes In Glass
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When
drilling a hole in glass you'll need a diamond
drill bit that fits in a regular drill motor.
You can view the video that goes with this
article by clicking
here.
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With the bit in the drill, you'll want to keep the
bit cool as you drill by keeping your glass submerged in water.
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You'll need a plastic tray of some kind, a wooden
block, water and the drill bit.
The plastic tray can vary in size, a large one
will let you drill longer pieces of glass, a shorter one will let you
have greater control over the drilling process.
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I place a wooden block into the tray that I can
rest my glass on.
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I pour water over the wooden block.
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Since wood floats, I push it to the bottom of the
tray and pour enough water so the wood and the glass are both submerged,
but no more than that because I don't want to make a mess.
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I rest the edge of the drill motor on the edge of
the plastic tray and begin to grind my hole using the side of the bit.
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Here I'm drilling a piece of colored glass so you
can see what's going on.
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If you don't grind a good spot before tipping the
drill up, the bit will skid around on the glass.
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The place where the bit slips around will be
scratched.
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Once the side of the bit has ground out a start to
the hole, you can begin lifting the drill.
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And you'll be able to get it up to the 90 degree
angle that is normal for drilling.
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Then you roll the drill around and around till the
bit goes through the glass.
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And here is the hole, ready to have fishing line
run through it and hung on a mobile. |
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