Late, Late, Late
Tommy was a lone student on Tuesday evening and managed to get all three borders on his window. After a quick refresher course in soldering he got the front side completed. Considering this is just his second project I have to say that he really had a knack for soldering. I barely need to do anything but straighten out some of lines. Look to see this window finished and hanging here next week.
Mark cut the background and the inside white sections of his flower window this week. If you look under the window you’ll see the more solid, darker white trims that surround a lot of his flower petals. It looks like Mark will be spending his time at the grinder next week because the cutting on this window is just about finished. Again, I can’t believe how quickly Mark moves along on his projects. I don’t know the exact number of pieces in this window but a quick count on the picture beloe show me that it has at least 150 pieces if not more.
Ellen finished soldering the outside of her lamp which always feels like it’s taking longer than it should. But rest assured she’s moving along at a great deal of speed. When she finishes the inside next week we’ll wash it up, get rid of the wax on the inside of the lamp and then color it and call it finished. I can’t wait to see this lit up and I can guarentee you that we’ll have a GREAT photo here to show this lamp off to its fullest.
Cheryl got the left side of her tiger all cut and ground. Afterwards she had to decide what to do for eyes since we all pretty much agreed the the jewels she originally picked didn’t quite make the grade. That’s the way it goes with stained glass work– sometimes you have it all worked out in your head but then while you’re cutting it out you can see that one of your choices just isn’t going to work. Cheryl routed through the glass glob we have and found 2 that looked like they would work. We dropped them into place and all agreed that the globs were the better choice. Here is what she got finished this week.
Meanwhile, Joey took over on finishing up the address sign window that Cheryl had started a few weeks back. As you may or may not recall there was a slight problem turning up matching white glass to finish this rather large window.  With the glass finally here and Cheryl working on her tiger, Joey decided to cut the remaining pieces to finish this window. With the corners tacked into place we got the four L shaped pieces that lie between the two blue borders. It’s all squared up and with only 4 pieces left to cut, Joey will be soldering next week. Things moved a little slowly this week on this window but that was because we cut new pattern pieces to ensure a quick fit with minimal grinding. Since Joey did 2 Cabinet Doors the same way I knew he’s be right at home doing this window in a similar fashion.
Gerald came in and finished cutting the thin pieces of glass making up the eyes of his Rooster. After getting everything ground and fitted together he wrapped it all and is ready for his chicken wire background that you’ll see next week. After this window is complete Gerald will be working on a HUGE window for his house. The pattern is almost complete so look for a picture here soon.
Fran finished cutting the rest of her Rooster and then moved over to a grinder to make sure this all fits together. She’s got most of the body completely ground with only the tail feathers and the head left to go. I guess she’ll be wrapping pieces next week whether she’s finished grinding or not so she won’t have to do it all in one week. The truth of the matter is that she may get this all ground next week because she certainly got a lot finished this week. It just depends on how busy the grinders get during class…
Gerald told us about a rather large Crawfish that he had at his house last week. He dried it out, set it on an ant pile to let the ants clean out the insides of good and then shellaced the 8″ monster. He brought it in to let us see it and will have a clear glass box for it next week. This thing looks more like a lobster rather than a crawfish!
It’s Sunday already so new classes will be happening just around the corner. This Blog posting was VERY late, but next week’s will be right on time again so come back in a few days to see what else is being done here.
Paul