In their Spring edition, The Stained Glass Association Of America published a review we wrote of Ken Leap’s fascinating book on silver stain.
The review explores three ways that tests improve our skill.
Yes, tests improve our skill, even though we sometimes feel they slow us down.
Here’s a link so you can read more.
A while back, Stephen wrote a post about how to tell when your palette knife is getting old and why this matters.
Today I’ll follow that by showing you what we do next.
We don’t throw our worn out knives away. We put them to good use.
Since your window lasts for centuries, you mustn’t fail on glass.
And that’s the point of paper.
In particular, paper reflects light (whereas glass transmits it).
So for me it’s a bad sign when a client falls in love with a design:
This often means a lot of waste.
So, again for me, this is one sight which helps me understand whether someone is likely – in the end, after a lot of hard work and heartache – to prepare a good design.
This is it:
A full paper-bin
Shaped reinforcement bars
I don’t see the point in spending weeks on a design only for the reinforcement bars to spoil the finished window.
Granted: shaped bars are not as strong as straight ones.
Our answer is to add a few more by way of compensation. After all, you barely see them.
So we use straight bars where sections sit on top of one another, shaped bars within a section: the best of both worlds.