Started out making a tree for Monica… and then Sarah too… and then things sort of went out of control when I found a gem stock pile at the stained glass store in Fredericton. Nine is a nice number. So, this will be my first production line project…I’m psyched!
The design for this pattern actually came from a photo I took in the gift shop at Bully Hill Vineyards in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. I’ll plan to make each tree slightly different from all the others so each is unique.
Merry Christmas.
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- Christmas Tree Pattern
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- tracing pattern onto glass at 2:00 a.m. (who needs sleep?)
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- tracing each pattern piece onto the glass
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- pattern traced: 9x
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- scoring the glass for breaking
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- finishing the score (carbide wheel cutter)
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- breaking the glass along the score
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- finished breaking out the glass pieces (rough cut)
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- One possibility (glass still rough cut in this photo)
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- all rough cut pieces assembled and ready for grinding
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- grinding1
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- grinding 2
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- grinding 3
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- getting ready to wash the pieces
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- washing each piece with a toothbrush
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- drying the pieces
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- ready for foiling
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- each piece is wrapped with copper foil tape
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- and burnished (smoothed) over the edges
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- the first nine pieces are done – 153 more to go
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- about half done the foiling
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- close up of burnishing the copper foil
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- ahhhhh – therapy!
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- all 162 pieces are foiled
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- pieces organized and ready for assembly
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- the nine trees are assembled and ready for soldering
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- Soldering along the edges
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- all soldered and ready for washing
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- Washing the trees
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- drying and getting ready to polish
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- done – in the window – 9 ladies dancing
Comments on: "Christmas Trees of 2012" (2)
You are so talented…such a neat hobby! Love following along on your blog. Have a good week but get your rest.
Day three: finished grinding all the pieces last night after work. I remember many days when I was very young, my father would disappear to the basement to work on the airplane he was building. I often thought “How could anyone spend so much time doing the same thing?” – well now I understand. The basement is my sanctuary. It’s there that I think, dream, imagine, plan, decide, fail, learn, and succeed.