Busy Busy Busy!
I was busy getting Cheryl and Joey all set up and when I turned around I saw that Danielle had already placed her parrot on top of her background glass and traced around everything! I helped her separate the pieces (it’s a bit confusing when you see all those lines all over your glass) but then she cut it all out and gound everything into place without any problems whatsoever. Danielle is really pushing forward and handling all the aspects of making a window with very little help from me. She’s doing great! The picture below of her parrot looks like it has a tan background but it’s actually clear textured glass. The tan color you see is the work surface below it. And those are metal carpenter squares holding everything into place. The window will have a border but I’m not sure what color it will be. Danielle has really come a long way from the first day when she wasn’t even sure if she could cut glass!
The RV looks like an RV and there’s NO doubt about that. Cheryl cut her border on the strip cutter like she’d been using it all her life! It doesn’t seem tricky, but a lot of people have trouble initially while trying to maintaining even pressure to the left while pushing downward on the cutter while keeping a constant steady speed and holding the glass so it doesn’t twist out of the strip cutter. As you can tell, there’s a lot going on while cutting strips! Cheryl cut her first strip perfectly and then finished off the rest of them without any help from me at all. I showed her how we measure out the breaks along the border and then she finished it on her own. We slapped on a brass channel and she has it home to finish soldering the back side. Great job, Cheryl! Look for the completed window next week.
Joey set about soldering the front and back of his Mickey Mouse Window. We heard hardly a word from him but when we did he was finished with both sides! Like Cheryl, he had the perfect amount of solder on his project and it will be real easy to touch up the joints to get everything nice and smooth. Next week he’ll wash it, color it and then start working on his second project– a Mallard window. Joey is moving right along and has picked up the soldering techniique extremely fast. We can’t wait to see his next project get started!
I worked a bit more on the Peacock window. I got the corners all cut out but I still need to grind, wrap and tack the upper and lower right hand side. There will be a flowered border surrounding what you see, followed by a thin red border, a beveled border and then a final thin red border. I’d say that the majority of the work is finished on this window but the flower border is a bit complex and time consuming.
Paul