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It all started when Mr. Trobaugh told us to start thinking about projects. I thought to myself, what should I do? I had the thought that I would do a stained glass. That would be easy, right? Oh, if only I had known what I was getting myself into. I would have saved myself a lot of hassle if I would have ended that idea. But I didn't, so the saga continues. All in all, I spent about $70.00 on my project. I spent about $15 on glass; $3 on the came, or solder; $4 on the foil edging; $25 on the soldering iron; $5 on the diamond glass cutter; $5 on the breaking pliars, and a few other minor expenses. |
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To start with, I had to have a pattern to go by. This is where Mr. Trobaughs flag comes in to play. I used the flag as a template to cut my glass. If I would have had the time, I would have actually measured and cut the glass the right way. That probably would have given me a better turn out. But, due to the unforeseen circumstance of my grandmother dying, I was pressed for time. So I was stuck with having to cut the glass by guess work, which was not the best idea. |
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After I had the glass cut to perfection(you can laugh now), I had to solder the glass together. Before I soldered, I had to foil the edges of the glass. Using the special foil for the job, I set out to foil every edge of every piece of glass. That ONLY took about 2 hours. This was the point where I was wondering what I had gotten myself into. With that task finally over, I was ready to begin soldering. This was the "easy" part. That's what I thought anyway. I had to heat the foil and solder the edges of the glass together. Very convenient for filling in the holes my cutting had left. Note the very wide strip of soldering. With this over I was done. Sort of. Now I needed to trim the edges so they would be even, and frame the glass. |
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Before I started to frame my project, I had a brilliant idea. To make the flag look a little more rustic, solder silver over the white. To do this, I just soldered two strips of solder down the white parts. Then once they were cooled a bit, I melted them together and smoothed them out. This helped the flags appearance quite a bit. |
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