Cutting
thin strips of glass such as used in Mission Style patterns
and precision fusing projects requires skill and assistance.
For transparent and translucent glass you can arrange
a right angle guide on a board and tape a piece of lined
notepaper to the jig. Use a cutting square and move
it right along the lines on the note paper making four
or six scores at a time and then breaking on the last
score first and then every other score, and then each
one in half. Vicki Bundschu
Another method is to use the edge of the bench as a
guide. With a small adjustable carpenter's square, you
hammer in nails at the predetermined width (plus half
the thickness of the cutter head). Align the glass to
the edge of the bench between the nails. Place a straight
edge against the nails and score. This gives strips
of the same width every time, but works best with strips
of 10mm (3/8") or more.
The thinner the strips are to be cut, the more important
it is to make the scores and then divide the sheet in
half - the two halves in half each - the 4 quarters
into halves, etc, until you are down to the piece that
only needs to be divided in two.
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