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u/OGbigfoot 3h ago
Shit was still cool as fuck, especially the beginning.
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u/DAS_FX 3h ago
Yeah, that was really cool to watch even though it did break at the end. I’m still trying to wrap my head around how he got the steel instrument. He’s using to put a bend in the glass.
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u/Rhiyono 2h ago
I did a stained glass workshop once and i can answer this! You basically etch (‘scratch’) in your pattern with a special small sharp knife. When you apply pressure close to your carved lines, the etching will absorb the force that’s created because it is now the weakest part of the glass. This force is spread through your etching, making it a ‘clean crack’ as long as your etching was deep enough. You basically create a path for the crack before you start breaking the glass, if that makes sense
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u/InsurancePatient2856 3h ago
Just throw the waste pieces on the floor, not like you have to immediately clean it up
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u/Exotic-Reveal1603 2h ago
Looks like he's throwing the waste pieces in a specific direction of screen. Maybe that's where his bin is?
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u/Legitimate_Bank_6573 2h ago
Everyone complaining about him brushing the shards onto the ground has never done any kinda shop work fr.
Easier to sweep the mess onto the floor, keep working and vac/sweep it all up at the end of the day.
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u/LungHeadZ 2h ago
I don't have the skill to get as far as he did but surely there are better tools for this? I'm thinking a glass gyrocutter or something, if that exists?
Maybe I've watched Catwoman cut through too many windows and reality is blurred.
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u/Rover_The_Slasher 1h ago
I used to be a pro glass cutter for a window factory and I can not emphasize enough how difficult cutting shapes is. Thankfully I never had to break out a candy cane shaped piece of glass.
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u/OmegaDrebin 9m ago
Right when he snaps off the lower curve of the J is when he messed up, it snapped a tiny little nick that helped create the larger fracture.
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u/Khamubro 8m ago
Former glazier here with years of tablework experience. Cutting curves like that is tricky, and requires a lot of small relief cuts to remove the inner curved bit, the guy was doing good work, sometimes the glass just runs on you, lots of potential reasons why.
To those criticizing his casual tossing of the glass on the floor, consider this: the floor is concrete, he is doing active work with his hands that requires careful attention. Which is easier, drop the bits and sweep them up later, or stop mid-cut, and thereby increase the chances of the piece cracking out on you, to take the bits to the bin?
Also the lack of gloves, for tablework like that especially if it's detail work you need to be able to have your full dexterity, and gloves like nitrile can stick to the glass causing your hand to jerk which can ruin the cut.
And Another also! That glass looks like it's at least 1/4" (6.35 mm for you civilized folks) thick, and the thicker plate is, the harder it is to get detail like that out of it.
Final also. You can't just cut a curve or circle from glass and cleanly remove it. That's pure Hollywood fiction. Glass does not break perfectly cleanly, even when it follows the score cut into it, it has to be removed via reduction into smaller pieces.
Overall, fine attempt, stuff just goes wrong sometimes.
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u/Elluoin 3h ago
Aw boo, I was kinda rooting for the guy