Work, Work, Work!
It was a VERY productive day today as everyone was soldering what they’d accomplished. Julie was grinding and wrapping as well as soldering, but she soldered nonetheless. 
She finished cutting 4 more Morning Glories and some extra leaves to use as fillers along the circle of her wreath. She has it all cut and almost all soldered now which means we’ll be ready to attach everything next week. Trust me when I say that the finished version of this will knock your socks off. Here’s what she has finished and all laid out on the work table.
Kim as finished cutting everything and has her edge channel attached. That left a day of soldering ahead of her. Since her window is very large she didn’t manage to finish all of it but she came very close. She has about a quarter of the back side to complete and then comes the fun of washing this large, mostly clear window. Since she’s leaving the leadlines silver on this project she won’t have to go over it 3 times with water and chemicals. I’d say she made a smart move there. Here’s 2 views of what she’ll more than likely finish next week.
Lastly we have Ellens beveled window. Most of our windows are finished off with a copper patina applied over the silver solder. As I mentioned before, Kim will be leaving the solder silver colored on her window. Ellen will be go the other direction and using the black patiana on hers. I’ve always felt that a black finish is the best way to go when you have a window that has nothing but clear glass in it — the contrast really sets the glass off nicely. So when you look at the pictures of Ellen’s window below, imagine all the silver you see turned to black. This is a stunning beveled window with more bevels in it than you can shake a stick at!
Be sure to look here again next week to see all these projects finished, hanging and ready to walk out the door!
Paul