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• partypuzzle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks awesome! We need a stained glass Lemmy community, it’s one of the only things I miss about Reddit :(

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  • cheesyxpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey thanks! And we totally do need a community here… I was hoping I’d find a fellow glasser by sharing this :) More of us will migrate over this way, hopefully someone more capable than myself can create a community for us, haha!!

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  • mooncake@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then create it, it’s not difficult.

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    • IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Making a community is easy. Keeping it red with content takes a certain level of critical mass :(

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• bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wow, that’s very cool. so you have to cut each piece of glass for each finger bone like that?

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  • cheesyxpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, cut and grind it smooth. Then copper foil tape around the edges and solder… voila!

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    • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Very cool, it came out great.

      I coincidentally looked up glass cutting recently and found videos of people cutting window panes by scoring a line and then smacking the scored section off. Is that what you do for cutting glass curves also? Your work looks too technically precise for the smacking method I saw.

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• flango@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s really really amazing! I have an unfulfilled dream of working with glass and stained glass, but it seems to require a lot of equipment

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  • cheesyxpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks so much!

    Glass is fun! If there is a studio near you, I recommend a class to see if you like it.

    My husband surprised me with a starter setup, we are fortunate enough to have a garage to work in. Cutting glass means flying fragments and soldering creates toxic fumes, requiring a well-ventilated area. I think he spent around $300 total. There are examples of kits on here. I have not had to upgrade any of my supplies.

    Good luck if you get into it, it’s tedious work but super rewarding.

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    • flango@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for the suggestions!!

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