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Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Do We Cut or Break Glass (Does it Matter)?

Ever wonder what glass actually is   Do we cut it or break it is there a difference   Why and how does scoring a line allow us to control the way glass breaks   To fully understand why we cut glass the way we do we should first understand a bit about glass itself. Making wonderful glass mosaic tile art is easy   Let me show you how.Ever wonder what glass actually is   Do we cut it or break it is there a difference   Why and how does scoring a line allow us to control the way glass breaks   To fully understand why we cut glass the way we do we should first understand a bit about glass itself.There are two types of solids amorphous and crystalline.  Huh   Amorphous   Wasn’t he a character in the movie series The Matrix   No that was Morpheus.   As you’ll learn in my eBook in the chapter on Tessera Types glass is an amorphous solid the chapter explains what glass is to help the mosaic artist understand how to make better cuts and breaks and to help reduce wasted glass.  An amorphous solid such as glass and...
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Repairing Putty Window Glass

Have you ever thought about fixing a broken window in your house but didn't think you could do it because nobody ever taught you how to cut glass Well you really don't have to know how to cut glass in order to repair your window. If you knew how to remove the frame you could order a replacement piece of glass from your local glass shop already cut to the proper size. Then it's just a matter of installing the new glass into the frame. But there are so many different kinds of window out there there is no way i could explain them all in one article. So this is going to be the first in a series of articles describing the repair procedure for each type of window. There are really two categories of windows out there. They are single pane windows and dual pane windows. Then within those two categories there are several types of windows in each category. Let's start with the single pane window category. This would be older windows that were around before the building industry became more energy conscious. It just means that there is a single piece of glass in the frame...
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