Top Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Learning Stained Glass.

Awesome video all should view... on the Top 10 Mistakes to avoid when learning stained glass...👍By Ed & Barb 1. Not enough practice cutting glass. Practice Practice Practice cutting window glass. 2. Not cutting your glass to fit your pattern correctly. Place the cutter wheel on the inside of the black line while scoring your glass. 3. Using too much cutter oil. Only use a little bit of oil with your glass cutter. 4. Using the wrong solder. Use 50/50 on LED and 60/40 on copper foil. 5. Not cleaning after applying flux and patina. 6. Using too much flux. 7. Do NOT Leave flux or patina on your glass project overnight. Clean your glass with a mixture of baking soda & water to remove flux & use glass cleaner w/ 91% alcohol to remove patina. 8. Not using a rheostat / temperature controller. 100 watt soldering Iron at a #8 setting. 9. Not following Studio Safety Precaution. Have / use safety glasses, Band-Aids, don’t wear open toed shoes. 10. Getting frustrated & giving up too soon.

I told the guy at the glass shop I was a beginner, he did not stop me buying loads a textured glass bout £300 worth and I chewed through a bit and though hang on I need some flat clear glass to practice with first, I wish I had seen your Video, Anyhow thanks you good man,from Pete in England.

I keep telling myself to drive a little 4 cylinder pickup truck glass cutter instead of a Ferrari glass cutter. It keeps me from making mistakes and going outside of the line. Ed and Barb are the best teachers ever!!

Thank you so much!

Ive always been frustrated with my patina looking brown instead of black... Now I know why 😅...thank you so much for these wonderful tips

Im a 4th year glazier apprentice and we don't do any stained glass work. I've decided not to be a tradesman after my time and dedicate my skills to lead lighting and copper works. It's the first time since picking up a guitar at 14 that I've been excited and so interested in something. I love this shit

MORE CLOSE-UPS! Let's see that oxidized solder really close up. Thanks for this vid.

#10 applies for all crafts, as well as #1. Taking the time to learn the basics and then practice those, instead of expecting master craftsman results or even basic correct results straight away. Too many give up too soon because they compare their work with people who have already mastered the skills, or with the very few people that are able to instantly pick up crafts. Just like playing a musical instrument, you can't expect to watch a few videos, read a few books, pick up an instrument and record a track. It takes practice and MANY MANY MANY mistakes. *I haven't used this media before - don't even have any of the equipment, but keen to learn one day. Hope to learn more from you later!

Thanks for all your helpful advice! I recently took a class in town …$200 and learned very little. Absolutely love doing this…can’t admit to my husband how much I’ve spent. Holy moly, I saw your video on “The Grinder “…hasn’t arrived yet but I’m excited! Thanks again!

About how much baking soda to water for cleaning? Now that I'm retired I have time to get back to model building but I have most of the tools for stain glass as I took a class years ago. My youngest daughter took a weekend class and liked doing stain glass so I need to set up a space to work with her.

I wish I had seen this a couple of months ago! Thanks for sharing all the things to not do. Now I will know better for my next piece.

wish I had seen a video like this when I began with Stained Glass all those years ago!

I definitely want to get up there and take a couple classes

I’m so glad I came across y’all’s channel and videos! I’m only three projects in and now I know why my cutter isn’t working properly. The directions only said not to overfill and it didn’t come with a pipette. It’s also not a see through pencil cutter, so I poured some in and have had the worst time. Now I realize it’s likely because I have too much oil in my cutter. I don’t have issues with the ones in my class. We also weren’t taught about patina or waxing so now we will need to scrub our finished projects and patina and wax them. Thanks again for another great video Ed and Barb!

Thank you for this helpfull video Ed and Barb! ⭐️

Very educational....the BEST one for me is #2...I've been struggling because of how I was cutting the pattern. Thank you so much

Thanks for the reminders. Enjoy yiur videos so much.

Thank you for this video. I started doing (trying) 15 yrs ago. I took a few classes thought I could do it. I quit. Recently I decided to try again. This video helped me more than any class I took. There were no learning tips like u gave. I’m excited to try again. I would love to get good enough to make things for friends and relatives. Thank you again. You told things I never knew and they made perfect sense. Would love to take classes with you but I live in Missouri. Keep putting out videos. 😀

Thank you so much! Took classes awhile back and your tips and classes have been great to refresh my memory and skills . 😊

Thank you so much. I have had a passion to learn this beautiful art for many years and I am getting started buying the proper products I need now. I am looking forward to all videos you are going to share and looking back at all you have made in the past. I need all the help and guidance you can give me. Thank you once again!