Questions about the stained glass posts on BrooklynRowHouse
Submitted by Steve on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 12:50am.
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adding stained glass
I would really like to follow your lead and learn stained glass. You have done a beautiful job. We have four windows that just need stained glass! I hope to get a class for our aniversary. What I wanted to know is how much of an investment (ok not technically) the basic stained glass tools are? Are we talking $200, $500, more?
Stained glass tool costs
For lead came works, typically you need a glass cutter, a came knife, a set of dikes to trim the came, a set of tongs, a bunch of push pins to hold the assembly in place, a heavy duty soldering iron and stuff like solder, whiting and putty. This should run you less than $100.
Optionally and highly recommended is a diamond bit glass grinder to fine tune a glass piece's edge ($100-150). Another nice tool is a T-square with a glass cutter (~$40).
All these things can be found on eBay but if you take a class it's typical for the school to include the basic tools with the tuition.