Osteklyaem stained-glass windows

This article will share tips on glazing, using ready-made stained glass. All work takes place in two stages: the stained glass windows to give the necessary form, install glass, stained glass windows in wooden frames in the ready-made windows. For glazing windows of unusual shapes, such as oval, the question immediately arises: how to make glass cutting? In carrying out this work you must use a diamond glass cutter, for cutting glass on a curve or a curve need specially made templates just under the window. Cutting glass takes patience and skill, the glass should be put on the table and lock the rack, it is important to line the notch coincided with the edge of the countertop. Painstaking work, but what results in the future! The second phase - the installation of glass, in our case - stained glass windows in wooden frames. If the old frame, must be thoroughly cleaned of the broken pieces of glass, paint, nails, old putty. If you use ready-made frames go to cooking putty for fixing glasses and pyleizolyatsii. Of course, you can buy ready-made putty, but it is easy to prepare and at home: mix thoroughly chalk and varnish in equal measures with a spatula until smooth. Glass set into the frame, fix studs and pins, then they completely cover the mounting semi-liquid solution. It is important that studs and pins are not sticking out from under a layer of putty. After drying, you can safely move on to coloring, if desired.