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How to Cut Glass
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Tags: Cutting Glass, Glass
Have a glass project waiting at home? Well, chances are you will be doing some glass cutting. Below are some tips on how to cut glass
| 1. | Clean the surface, but only along where you plan to score. |
| 2. | Obtain a glass cutter. |
| 3. | Grasp your cutter like a pencil, but look at the wheel and its orientation to the glass and align it properly. |
| 4. | Use a scrap piece of glass and apply pressure to the glass as you pull the cutter along the surface, rolling on the small carbide wheel. Listen for the clicking or gritty sound of the wheel permeating the smooth surface of the glass. The less sound you make, the better your score. |
| 5. | Score along a straight edge, yardstick, or ruler. |
| 6. | Practice on scrap glass until you're ready for the real thing. |
| 7. | Grasp each side of the cut as if you were trying to break a potato chip in half with two hands. |
| 8. | Use a fine sandpaper or even better, a sharpening stone, to remove the sharp edge, where the vertical edge meets the horizontal surfaces. |
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