3 On Wednesday
Craig was back in this week for another Weekend Workshop in the middle of the week. He had one large contemporary design window all cut and ready for grinding. After he ground that I wrapped it for him while he cut out a second flower window. By the time he was finished grinding and I finished wrapping pieces, the door opened and lane and Gerald walked in thus officially starting our Wednesday Night Class. By the end of the class Craig had his first window soldered and his second smaller flower window ready for soldering. Here’s his contemporary window ready for a bath.
Lane was hard at work soldering the back side of his 3 foot by 3 foot Iris Window. He kept fairly quiet most of the night as he concentrated on his lead lines. In fact, we were all working so hard that there was little conversation until the music stopped for a bit. Once there was a little silence Lane, Gerald, Craig, Russ and myself started talking a little more. At the end of the night Lane had accomplished a lot. There’s no doubt that the soldering will be finished next week but since this is such a large window I’ll wash it and color it for him during the day so that I can use the hose to wash it and not get hauled off by mosquitos. If you look closely at Lane’s picture you’ll see the pattern showing through the clear sections since it no longer lines up (the window is sitting upside down on the pattern). This is going to be finished real soon now so keep looking for a finished picture.
Last but not least we have Geralds window. His Fluer de Lis needed some solder on the back and although he had a bit of trouble with some of the soldering he did ‘fabulously’. The problem was with the reeded glass that he used for the oval of the Fleur de Lis– the high points of the reeds go to almost 1/4 of an inch thick and the low spots are a standard 1/8 inch thick. This means that he’s got little valleys that want to fill with too much solder while nothing wants to adhere to the peaks. It was tricky going but he did great. By the end of the night the window was soldered, washed, patina’ed and waxed. I think it’s one of the nicest looking windows done in here. It has a very distinct and
regal look about it.
So come back tomorrow and see the finished pictures of Craigs windows– I’d show them to you now but my computer has crashed and I’m doing this on a laptop that doesn’t have the pictures from Thursday morning on it. Hopefully the Microsoft Windows reinstall will have things running smoothly by tonight.
Paul