Mike Hutter Shows His Face!
Although it was a slow week for classes, it was a very busy around here in general which helps explain why this Blog update is 1 week late. Since we had classes again yesterday morning and last night I figure I’d best sit down and write out the things that happened last week before both weeks blur together and I can’t recall what happened to whom and when.
Christine worked on grinding more hand mirrors and got another finished along with 2 others repaired. Here’s a look at the last 3 she took home with her.
Meanwhile, Fran cut the background and the inner border to her Owl window that she’s working on. She wanted to cut the last border as well so she could grind everything at home (she has her own grinder) but our general rule of thumb is to tack everything together before you cut the final border. The reason is simple: you can cut the border pieces and get them to fit but your window is going to change size slightly once you get everything wrapped. On a square window it may not amount to much of a difference but on an octagon window the difference will throw off all the angles on the border.
Janice and Grace got their pattern traced out and then they both began cutting out the 275+ pattern pieces so they could begin tracing them out onto glass. Here’s the pattern and the baggies of pattern pieces all sorted by color. This window will be a lot of work but I don’t think it will be as hard as Janice and Grace might think it will be. And I know for a fact they’ll be amazed at how good this is going to look.
Gerald got almost all of his first of three sections cut out and ground. He changed a couple of pieces here and there because the colors didn’t look right but it’s looking like a complete scene now. Remember that there are 2 other sections to this window and that they’ll all hang next to each other to form one big scene. Gerald will be doing the same border trick that Cheryl and Joey did with their cabinet doors to tie the windows together. In case you forget what the trick was, it involves placing a border on the top and bottom of the middle section but not the sides. The left side panel will have 3 borders, 1 on the left side, one on the top and on on the bottom. the right section with have 3 borders but not on the left side of it. This way when the windows hang you have one border around all three windows to help create the illusion of one picture.
And that was all that happened LAST week! I will do my best to get this weeks blog up on Thursday after our Wednesday night class ends.
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
Look! Mike Hutter made an appearance this week. I’m always asking if anyone has seen him…
