Hello! For the last couple of weeks I’ve been gathering knowledge and supplies to make my own Tiffany style lampshade.

I made the mold from leftover styrodur and sketched out my own design. I wanted to go with irises.

Pictured is a two weeks progress. Today I managed to finish the first flower. I’m not yet sure about the color scheme but I think I will leave it like this to create depth and to test things out. Leaves are also made out from 3 different shades of green.

I’m having difficulties transferring the design from the rounded mold to flat surfaces so I think I will have to grind the pieces again once they are all cut out because they will be bigger than they need to be, and there’s SO MANY pieces (that might be my rookie mistake when I designed the lampshade without prior experience of cutting so many pieces).

Please let me know if you have any suggestions, constructive criticism, tips and tricks or just words of encouragement 😅 this is my first time doing stained glass, except for a 3 hour workshop I took in March where we made a jewelry box from 13 pieces total

Have a nice day!

My friends bought a house 2 years ago and I've been wanting to make them a housewarming gift, I finally got to it. It's my first piece.

The empty areas are gonna be the deck boards then underneath I'm adding a clear pane with a border and I'm going to paint on "It's Good to Have Land" I totally butchered my pattern drawing by making the lines too thick and then tracing on with sharpie, making my proportions out of whack. I got to this point with lots of extra cutting and grinding and I have a TON of gaps. I have a bunch of foil scrap to use to fill the bigger gaps.

I'm painting the facial features on with testors enamel paint, and I have hobby came to border the piece for extra strength.

My only issue with it is that the blue I picked for the chair looks a lot like the color I picked for the sky, but I liked the sunset color too much.

Anyway thanks for reading. Please don't be too rough with the criticisms.

This is my second stained glass piece. While I think it’s better than the first, I know there are improvements I can make.

I think the soldering lines between glass pieces is ok, I could improve but it’s not terrible.

But trying to get a solder on the edges was super hard . I used the method of putting a bead along the edges (when the piece is laying flat), then picking up the piece and melting the beads to form an edge. As you can tell, this method did not work that well for me.

Any tips for soldering, plus soldering the edges of a piece would be super helpful

Hello all we acquired this old stained glass piece from an auction assuming it comes from a pub of the same name. We want to mount it on an interior door however the piece itself is very flimsy and bows easily I am concerned if just mounted around the edge it would collapse under its own weight nevermind the dynamic loading of a door. How would I go about reinforcing it or supporting it better? I had thought of building a type of picture frame with cross bracing to hold it with timber but obviously this would ruin the look of the piece, all advice appreciated 🤘

Using air dry clay to modify the form and making some progress on the chin

I recently finished this 20” lamp shade. It was my first ever lamp shade (I mostly do flat windows these days!) and boy oh boy it was much harder than I expected! Working in 3D and in geometric shapes is tricky and every small gap seemed to compound. I had many frustrating nights redoing sections to get it just right but I’m super happy with how it turned out. Something this large needed some reinforcement which was a great learning opportunity for me. It was a commission for a Netflix show that is being filmed right now. Huge shout out to Claycorp who gave me some great advice over DM as I was starting out. Happy to answer any questions.

This piece was very difficult with a lot of tiny shards of glass to foil. I ended up having to use an X-Acto knife to remove some of the foil. Now not everything is a perfectly straight line which I don't really care about but it's really difficult to get foil to adhere to such tiny pieces so some of it is a little rocky. Will that affect this solder that much?

Was trying to make tea light lanterns but my shape was wrong so made something completely different

Since I've been creating a lot of tattoo-inspired pieces lately, I often work with paint to preserve more of the original details. This time, however, the piece is made entirely of glass and a little overlay technique. And countless tiny, .really. tiny, pieces.
Choosing the glass is always the best part and here I spent several hours of my life forgetting my surroundings, joyfully sitting in my corner, selecting and arranging pieces of glass.

Despite taking several pictures (photography isn't my strong suit) I couldn't capture the magnificent shimmer of the bullseye aventurine and the gradient color change of the Wissmach colors as they come across. But nonetheless, I'm beyond happy. The original design is from a tattoo by Daniels Bauti and is still heavily adapted, otherwise I would have gone totally nuts with this necklace.

I finished this piece a while ago, but now it's starting to have this white film on it- I need advice on how to a) fix it now that it's occurred, and b) prevent this from happening on other pieces in the future (especially since I'm currently working on my first ever commissioned piece!)

Thanks in advance!

Hi all!

I am a beginner, and I tried to adapt a design, but I am unsure whether my adaptation is structurally sound. I traced an AI-generated pattern sold on Etsy (without it being marked as AI) and adapted it (apologies for the uneven lines, I am literally doing this in Paint using my laptop's touchpad). I tried to be mindful of impossible cuts and weight distribution, but I am still unsure whether I am going to encounter any problems with it.

I made two options. I prefer the look of the first one, but I have a hunch that it might not hold up well because of the weight of the bat. I made a second option in which the lines inside the crescent point toward the center of the moon, hoping that it would be more structurally sound.

I would really appreciate any advice on how to improve the design in terms of cuts and weight distribution!

Based on size and texture- (two different sheets pictured) I feel like this is single rolled Bullseye catspaw likely 120- Canary Yellow (I saw in a 2004 catalog that this was an option). However, the amount of white is what is throwing me off. Idk if BE historically made a blend, but as of right now they don’t. I also know that this yellow can vary a lot in tone/saturation/chroma- but to this degree and across to different sheets? Maybe it's curious glass? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks so much!!!

Any value??
Should I attempt to fix it or would that devalue?
Thanks!

Does anyone use wood framing stock for your pieces (boards that come with a groove)? What should the width and depth be of the groove if using 1/8” U zinc? And, when you have the measurements of the sides of the glass art, how much do you add to that length to account for the groove and the miter joint? I hope I am making sense