FINAL STAINED GLASS TUTORIAL-FRAMING fluid art/pour painting/acrylic painting/painting/paint pouring
Channel: stacey wells artistry
Date: 23/07/2020

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FINAL STAINED GLASS TUTORIAL-FRAMING AND POLISHING
Today, Im going to finish out my series of stained glass tutorials. During the last video, we soldiered out piece. Once done with soldiering, you need to wipe it down with a rag and some water or flux remover to clean the excess flux off the glass and soldier. It can corrode. So today we will cut our pieces of zinc to use as the framing material. I just bought a new metal chop saw for cutting these and it works wonderfully. Im using "handy hangers" placed at the top ends of the vertical zinc pieces for hanging purposes. The saw is necessary when using handy hangers because they fit down into the channel of the zinc and if you try to cut the zinc any other way i know of and have tried, it mangles it and the channel will become disrupted or closed. I go over how to use a "guide" piece of zinc to help you measure the lengths of zinc properly. Then we will tack the zinc pieces to our glass using thumb tacks or you can use horseshoe nails, whatever you want. This will hold the zinc pieces in place as we soldier them to each other. Then we put the hangers down in the fluxed channel of the zinc and soldier them in. After that, I usually like to use patina to change the color of the zinc and the soldier lines.  It comes in different colors but i like black. I think the color is nice and i also think it tends to hide soldiering imperfections. After applying the patina to the zinc pieces and the soldier lines, let it dry. Then wipe everything down again. Next I like to polish it. There are lots of products you can use for this. I like the ones that act kinda like car wax. You wipe them all over everything, let dry and buff off. I bought a car wax buffer for this but you can just use a rag. Then use your rag to go over all the crevices and edges of soldier lines to be sure you remove all the polish bc it can leave it looking hazy if not removed. After you do all this, it should look beautiful and shiny.  I hope you were able to benefit some from these tutorials. I enjoy doing them and most of all, trying to help people and collaborate with other artists. As I always say, if you're teaching yourself, you CAN DO THIS! and I will help you any way possible. My email is below. Please dont hesitate to holler at me. We can exchange phone nos and talk things through. Plus its just fun to meet and get to know new friends! Thanks so much for watching and supporting my channel. You guys are great!  PS. This is volume one of framing, there is another segment. Stay tuned!

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