Bill, your work is just stunning! Could you do an instructional video on how and when large foiled and leaded panels are reenforced? Your teaching style is absolutely the best on KZitem!
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
6 ай бұрын
Hi Carla, Thanks for your kind words, so glad you're enjoying the videos. For most of my larger projects, I use Lead Came with a Brass Reinforce strip inside the Came. Also, the larger projects I use a 9/32" Zinc U Came to go around the outside edges. all the larger panels are glazed with glazing putty on both sides. On panels 2 square feet square, I just use my standard Lead Came on them. I also, glaze then on both sides. On Copper foil panels I use reinforcing strips in between the copper foil pieces and then solder them into the project. You can also use reinforcing bars on the back side of your panels, they are soldered to the Lead Came. Sometimes they are attached to the panel with small pieces of wire soldered to the Lead Came than wrapped around the reinforcing bar. Hope that helps you out a little. Have a great Day!! Regards, Bill Stone
@lornanorris1363
5 ай бұрын
I love your work, your home must be beautiful with all that stained glass ❤
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
5 ай бұрын
Hi Lorna, Thanks for your kind words, glad you enjoyed the short video. Hopefully you will check out some of my other videos. Only a few of those windows are in our home, the rest are ones I've made for friends and neighbor's where we live. I have been making stained glass windows since the 1970's. It's a great hobby and have enjoyed it over all these years. I just posted a video with my granddaughter making her first leaded glass project, she did a great job. Have a great day. Regards, Bill Stone
@JoeyArispe
7 ай бұрын
Wow!! So beautiful...all of them!!
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
7 ай бұрын
Hi Joey, Nice to hear from you again. Thanks for your kind words, I have been making Stained Glass windows since the 1970's. Have made so many that I don't have photos of. Now with the cell phone cameras we are able to take all kinds of photos and not think a thing about it. What type of projects are you working on? Thanks for your comment. Regards, Bill Stone
@JoeyArispe
7 ай бұрын
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Hi Bill, That is very impressive that you have been doing your craft for such a long time! Do you remember the window that inspired you to get into stained glass? I am working on replacing my bedroom windows. Above one window is a couple separate windows that are in the shape of eyebrow windows. The stained glass windows that were originally in those openings are what inspired me to get into working with stained glass. I have only been working on stained glass for about 5 years on and off. I've done some fairly simple panels with lead but most of my work has been copper foil projects
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
6 ай бұрын
Hi Joey, Nice to hear from you again, YES, I remember it like it was yesterday. The window was in our front door, I hadn't started to make stained glass at that time, and it was purchased in Pomona CA at a glass store. Our son was playing soccer at that time and put a soccer ball through it. I took it out and took it back to the store to have it repaired. When I went to pick it up it wasn't quite ready, and I was watching what they were doing and thought that it looked like something I would like to do has a hobby. The next week at our local high school they were starting a leaded glass class in the evenings for beginners. I signed up for the class and it's been all history from there!!! After a couple weeks, I set out on my own and taught myself how to do it, some by trial and error, but been self-taught isn't a bad way to go. There's always more than one way to make these things. I always like to tell people if you have a better way to do something go for it!! Good to hear from you again. Regards, Bill Stone PS: When you have some time check out my new channel Bill Stone's Travel Adventures.
@JoeyArispe
6 ай бұрын
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Hi Bill, Thank you for sharing how you first got into stained glass. I bet your son never thought he would be the one to get you into stained glass. I have never even taken a stained glass class. I may have to do one someday. I always thought stained glass work is something that is time very well spent....since the creations being made will most likely far outlast the creator.
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
6 ай бұрын
Hi Joey, It's a fun story now, not so much at the time. Considering the soccer net was 18' wide and he never could hit that, the entire to the house was only 4 1/2' wide. Go figure!! Thanks for your comment. Regards, Bill Stone
@melodiemurphy5908
4 ай бұрын
Hello sir, I’ve been a stain glass foiler for years now but you have encouraged me into the lead side. I have a question on how, after stretching the came RU70, how do you straighten it when it won’t stretch straight? I’m having one heck of a time. Thanks in advance for your time and answer. Melodie
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
4 ай бұрын
Hi Melodie, Nice to hear from you, if you would check out my very first video on my channel there is a video clip showing all the tools and how to stretch the lead came. The video is called Leaded Glass Solar Lantern for Beginners!! It's nice to have a Lead Came Vise to hold one end of the Came while you use a good strong pair of pilers to pull on the other end of your Came. The RU-70 U came is a little hard to pull to far, just pull it hard enough to get it straight. Depending on how you buy your Came, it may be rolled up, folded in half or just flat. If it's rolled up, just unroll and put one end in the lead vise and then pull it straight. You can get a Came Vice from Amazon for under $20.00. If you don't want to do that if you have a regular vice in your garage on a work bench, just put one end in it and then pull it straight. If that isn't available to you, try a C Clamp and clamp one end to a worktable and then pull if straight. When all else fails, get a strong friend with a good pair of pilers on one end and you on the other and give it a good pull, if you do try this be very careful to brace yourself in case one of you let your end go. You don't want someone to fall down and get hurt!! Best of luck and let me know how you make out. One last thing reminder to also brace yourself when straightening your came as sometimes it can break at a seam in the came. Regards, Bill Stone
@melodiemurphy5908
4 ай бұрын
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Thank you for your reply! I have done all that you discussed so I must not be able to stretch it well enough. Maybe I need to go to a smaller thickness. I was an automotive mechanic so have the tools I just don’t have the strength anymore. But I’m not giving up just yet 🤪 Again, thanks for all your instruction and videos and keep them coming!
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
4 ай бұрын
Hi Melodie, Don't throw in the towel yet!!! You said you have a lot of tools, how about you put one end of your came in a bench vise and take a pair of Vice Grips on the other end and then set the Vice Grips on the edge of a table and bend the Came around the edge of the table. If you need more pressure, just slide a pry bar onto your vice grips or even a piece of pipe for more leverage and you should be able to get it stretched. If that doesn't work for you. You can always purchase a Came stretcher; they are kind of pricey. Look at them on Delphi Glass under Came Stretchers. They have all kinds of helpful tools for Stained Glass. They also have a big website to look at. We are going to get you up and going no matter what it takes!!! Regards, Bill Stone
@aussiemachandmadeeverything
6 ай бұрын
They are so awesome, can you put stained glass in a aluminium window frame or only old window made from wood i havent installed a window yet so im just curious 😊
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
6 ай бұрын
Hi Austra, All these larger projects are installed from inside the home in front of the existing window with small Plexiglas clips that use a drywall screw to hold them to the inside of the windows. If you look at some of the windows in the video and along the bottom and sides you can see these clips if you blow the photo up. Some people will frame them in with wood molding also. I don't think you want to get into taking the window out and replacing it with a panel of Leaded Glass. That would be a major project. Hope that answers your question. Please feel free to ask me anything about these videos. Regards, Bill Stone
@aussiemachandmadeeverything
6 ай бұрын
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Thankyou so much Bill that does help tremendously, my teacher only showed me basics & never included anything about installs, so I'm very appreciative of you expertise & advice, I've started this later in life at 57, basically to do all the windows in my house & I have both wooden frames in the front & aluminium frames on the rest of the house, so that helps me a lot, I watch as many people on you tube as I can so I learn more, thank the lord for you tube 😆 & Thankyou again Bill
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
6 ай бұрын
Hi Austra, Glad that was helpful, if you look at the photo on this video with the Hummingbird in it, you can see the plastic clips that the panel fits in. They are made out of 5/8" Plexiglass. I use a table router and route a 1/4" opening 1/2" deep, 1/8" from the end of the plexiglass which is 1" wide. After that I route out on the other end a 1/2" opening 1/2" deep and drill my hole and countersink for the dry wall screw. With that done the Window panel fits in the 1/4" opening and goes up against the windowsill. I use a 90-degree adapter in my drill to drill a pilot hole and then install my drywall screw. if you have never used a table router, be very careful as the blades are very sharp and can cut you in a heart bet!! With that all said, when routing on the plexiglass I take very light cuts at a time to get to the 1/2" mark. If you try to take too big of cut, you could get what they call kick back and that is very dangerous, so slow and steady is your best bet. There used to be a company that sold a clip just like this and on longer makes them, so basically, I used their idea and made my own. Also remember if you use something like this to hold your panels in place be sure to make them about 3/16" smaller than the opening in the window you want to make. Otherwise, when you put the clips on the edges of the panel it won't fit your opening. Also, if your good at cutting 45-degree angles in wood you can never go wrong with 3/8" quarter round molding. Where are you, I'm in Southern California. Have fun with this hobby and be safe. Regards, Bill Stone
@aussiemachandmadeeverything
6 ай бұрын
@@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310 Hi Bill Thankyou for all that info. I live in Australia. I realised after looking at the video of all yr Windows, that our aluminium windows open, so one side is stationary & the other slides open over the top of the other & has a fly screen on it. However I put a panel I've made in the space up against the stationary window to see if I could slide the other window over the top with the stained glass panel against it, it did , however I would have to use glazier silicone to attach it, I'm unable to use yr idea in my case, I'm going to test it on one of my windows to see Thankyoufor yr help
@billstonesstainedglasscrea3310
6 ай бұрын
Hi Austra, WOW!!! You are a long way from California, USA. All most all of these windows are mounted in front of windows that don't open. They are above the front door, beside the front door, or in a Bathroom. Also, several of them are accent windows up high in the dining room or bedroom. I did put one in a bathroom that had a window that opened, and it covered the whole window area so the window could no longer be opened. That window is the one with the Daffodils on it. It's a large copper foil window with Lead U Came around the outside edges. Best of luck on your projects, let me know how things work out for you. Regards, Bill Stone
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