The project is almost complete as far as I want to take it at this point. Some body and paint work, front grill installation and wheel alignment are required. I’ll get the wheel alignment a little more accurate, then we can drive. I’ve had the car for a year and haven’t spent much money on it as it contained a lot of parts, some usable, some not, and some needing to be changed. That was a good challenge. The new bearings, ferrule and spacers arrived and the rear sprocket assembly assembly was rebuilt.
To keep myself busy, I started a new project and got out all my stained glass tools and supplies to make a stained glass window for the south side of the galley (If you search for galley on my blog you can see the complete build).
Step one is to draw a picture of what you want the window to look like. I chose cranes, clouds and mountains.
After making a few changes, the drawing was transferred to a clean sheet using carbon paper.
The glass came in 12′
The final version of the image is transferred onto pattern paper using carbon paper, available from stained glass dealers. The patterns are cut with pattern scissors, leaving space between the glass pieces for the copper foil. The patterns are glued to the selected glass colors with a glue stick.
The glass is cut as close to the pattern as possible with a glass cutter; for more difficult cuts, a band saw with a diamond blade is used.
The next step is to sand each piece of glass as close to the edge of the pattern as possible using glass grinders like the ones shown below.
The cut and sanded pieces are laid out on the pattern and then assembled with further sanding.
After the glass pieces are assembled as tightly as possible, the copper foil is placed around the edges using a board similar to this one. The copper foil can be seen on the blue glass above.
If there is any interest in this stained glass project I started, please leave me a message in the “comments” on my blog and I will show the next steps and completion of this window.
