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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Repairing A Window For An Artist

This month's newsletter is about how we fixed a window for our artist friend's, Randy and Lynde Mott. Because she is such an avantgarde person, she thought it would be fun to replace the broken pieces with different colors so that the damage could be remembered. We found that we had clear textured glass that would look quite similar to what we were replacing, giving the repaired window a professional look while "remembering" it's history.

When we finished it was stronger, and better looking that it had been in years. We'll be showing how we did it in the newsletter.

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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