Stained Glass Project

The Stained Glass Project is in need of a Project Leader. These pictures were taken at prior years meetings.

Photos taken at the 2005-2006 Project meetings.
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Veronica and Chrissie are creating a box.	Elijah is cutting out pieces for his Sun Catcher.	Natasha is giving the camera a big smile. Note the required safety glasses which are larger to fit over her prescription glasses. Very fashionable.
Elijah is selecting the glass colors for his design.	These young ladies are cutting the glass to their patterns.	Cutting the glass.
Grinding the glass edges after cutting.	Using the light box to trace the pattern onto the glass prior to cutting the glass.	Kevin and Elijah are using the grinders to finish the edges of the glass.
The group hard at work, with the leaders overseeing the processes.	Kevin checking the fit on his pattern.	Elijah's cattle head pattern starting to come together.
Hannah is grinding the edges of her glass pieces.	Jo is using the glass breaking pliers to snap the glass to the score line.	Kevin's fish pattern in progress.
Chrissy's plate - 11" kiln fusing.	A different shot of Chrissy's plate.	Veronica's11" kiln fusing plate.
Veronica's11" kiln fusing plate with different lighting.	Chrissy and Veronica are cutting glass to be fused for making a necklace.	Ellijah and Hannah are finishing up their sun catchers with the soldering iron.
Natasha is displaying her stained glass window.	Natasha is displaying her stained glass window.	Natasha is displaying her stained glass window.
Hannah and Ellijah displaying their sun catchers.	Hannah and Ellijah displaying their sun catchers.	A close-up of their sun catchers.
A close-up of Ellijah's sun catchers.	A close-up of Hannah's sun catchers.
	More to come

The following pictures show the early steps of creating the stained glass leaded panel shown at the top of the page.
They were taken throughout the project in 2004-2005.
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Christine's design for her stained glass panel.	Veronica working on her design for her stained glass panel.	Christine is working on her design.
Natasha working on her design.	Natasha cutting her lead came border.	Natasha putting her small leaded sun catcher together.
Christine putting her small leaded sun catcher together.	Christine grinding some of the pieces for her sun catcher.	Frank thinking.
Frank thinking some more.	Veronica.	Natasha using the Morton Jig to cut some of her glass.
Dana helping Christine with her piece.	Natasha. using the Morton Jig. The jig is used to cut straight and repeated patterns	Dana helping Christine cut glass.
Veronica on grinder.	Natasha final check of fit before putting together.	Veronica is stretching lead came.
A close-up shot of the stretching process.	Laying the glass pieces on the pattern. Horseshoe nails are used to keep the pieces in position until the lead came is soldered together.
The glass grinder is behind the splash guard.	Rubbing alcohol is used to clean the glass.	The soldering iron is used to melt the solder and the lead came together.
		Solder flux is used to clean the oxidization from the lead came so the solder will flow easier.