I just added a new youtube video. click here to see it. We are trying to put up 5 step videos to add to the joy and entertainment that our stained glass friends will find amusing and helpful.This particular window was especially loved by us. It became destroyed one dark night after hanging in out studio. Kids moving furniture denied any knowledge of the broken window. It was just one of those unfortunate circumstances and then I began wondering if we could coat the damage with the kind of resin they put on tables made of plywood, usually covered with pennies or cards.
                                        So, we tried it, and it worked.

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Taking Time

Sometimes, a project takes a lot longer to complete. Last week I started on a repair of a window that I imagined would take a day or two to complete. It's been more than 8 days and I'm still working on it.

Window removed from frame X's show breaks

Chalk dust on paper to form pattern rubbings

After rubbing with replacements penciled in

New pattern piece shown over broken piece

Pattern traced on glass

Broken Pieces Removed

Some Pieces replaced with more to go.

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How To Shorten A Stained Glass Panel

I felt like a transom window I was building was wrong, but each time I checked the measurements we took, they were right on. When we showed up to deliver the windows, it was obvious that it was too long. So I had to shorten it to fit.

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Repair Stained Glass That Has Separated 12/07

Our studio repaired an arched window before and when the owner of the panel hung it up, she still didn't use all the rings that were designed to hold it, so we decided to add additional reinforcement to it after we got it back in place. Maybe that will keep it from coming apart.

The orange and yellow curved pieces of glass had separated from the purple glass.

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How To Fix or Reinforce Glass With A Solder Bridge-May 2007

This is a panel that we built which had a weakness in a long thin section. We built several of them and they would sometimes crack at the thin point of the glass. So to keep that from happening and to reinforce the weak spot, we needed to reinforce the spot where the break was taking place.

The back of this piece is already repaired, you can see the bridged solder bead on the back of the panel.

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March-Repairing Severe Damage

In January we showed how to make a simple one piece repair. In February I showed how to fake a repair. This month, I want to show a technique to repair a window which has been destroyed.

Ed Sibbet is one of the very few book designers who creates designs which can be built as drawn and has great perspective.
The Gemini Girl was the first design that I ever built. I built a second copy of it after the first was damaged in a house fire. I spent 2 or 3 months building a custom oak frame in college. So it was very painful when the panel was knocked from it's hook and shattered into many pieces. Rebuilding it was out of the question, nearly every piece was damaged. It would have been easier to build a new one rather than using traditional repair techniques.

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Feb-Faking A Repair

Last month we showed how to make a simple one piece repair. This month, I want to show an even easier repair, which deals with illusion.

This type of repair only works when you can easy cover a crack in the design. We do this by covering the crack with copper foil and soldering over the foil. We do this on both sides of the glass, thereby creating the illusion of a lead line.

The design to the left is the design we're going to demonstrate with. This panel had a weakness in the design and the side glass was cracked when the glass was being encased in tempered glass.

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Jan-Repairing A Broken Piece Of Glass

I am firmly convinced that the main difference between an amateur and a professional is that a professional will recognize and fix mistakes. An amateur may not even know they've made a mistake and won't fix it if they recognize the fact.

I hope that everyone who has ever taken a class from us has been exposed to our philosophy. If not, you may want to read "Don't Be Like Milo."

In an effort to help others to fix or repair mistakes, I thought I would go over the techniques for repairing windows. This is a simple one piece repair, not like the major damage we showed how to repair in last October's newsletter.

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Oct-Repairing Major Damage

In July the newsletter talked about shipping a window successfully. We thought you'd like to see what the results are when a window isn't shipped properly and how to repair the resulting damage.

They say you can learn as much from failure as from success. So here's a learning experience we had.

Repairing Major Damage To Art Glass .. We left to do an install, but even before we got there, we realized that the 5' by 4' panel we were carrying had slipped off the rack on our trailer and had been broken.

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June-How To Repair A Leaded Glass Panel

How To Repair A Leaded Glass Panel

1. A client called and asked us to repair a window in their home. The window had a broken piece of glass and we would need to take it from their home, repair it at our shop and reinstall it in their entryway.

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