Wednesday Night In The Shop
Danielle started grinding her Parrot window and we’ve decided that the best way to finish this project is to not cut her background glass just yet. She’s doing this to help make the grinding process go a little faster and to ensure a perfect fit. Once she has everything else ground she can then wrap it and then tack it all together. We’ll lay the project on top of the sheet of her background glass and then trace the outline as pattern pieces. When it’s cut it will fit perfectly and barely require any grinding at all. She’s working from the bottom up on and doing great.
Cheryl started work on a large and possibly intimidating project: a Recreational Vehicle. There are a lot of tiny pieces in it but if she just takes it a little at a time and focuses of what she’s doing rather than what’s left to do she’ll make it thru this fine– and she’s off to a great start. She’s managed to cut some tiny pieces and has started assembling it . She’s starting with the RV itself and will cut the rest of the scene after the RV is cut ground and wrapped. If she were to cut the entire window out, grind it and then wrap it she would have trouble getting it all together again because the foil in between each piece of glass will cause it to grow thus making it lose it’s shape. In a window like this it’s extremely important to make everything line up or else it will look like modern art rather than a RV. Having all the lines line up is VERY important here so we’ll take it a step at a time. She’s doing great and I don’t see any problems in the future for this window. Here’s what she has so far, it’s going to be an incredible window.
Joey got to work on his Mickey Mouse window which has always been a favorite of mine. Since this is his first project I’ve started him off on the simplest pieces first to help give him confidence with his cutting before we move onto the small pieces in Mickey’s face and his flowing robes. I can already see a huge leap in his ability to cut glass and I know that this will be all cut out next week and ready for grinding.
And that leaves us with Russ who wrapped some of his bevels in between everything else he was doing. He’s just about ready to start cutting his background which should happen in a few days now. Me, I’m working on a peacock as you can see next to Russ’s window.
Paul