Wood Furniture Embedded with Glass Rivers and Lakes by Greg Klassen

[enrieb]

These look good, i'm not sure how you would cut the glass though.

 

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[Stephen Blair]

Beautiful!

I know a guy who does stain glass, he cuts glass like butter with a tiny glass cutter, very impressive!

 

 

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[Gnome]

As a former glass processor that work is both skilful and stunning. Great idea.

[gobbypunk]

Hi guys HA my girlfriend makes stained glass give me a few weeks and I will post pics of my glass river table we also have a welder in our workshop so a metal frame will not be a prob watch this space as they say but very nice table looks stunning

[chris hennelly]

...would that have to be toughened glass?

[peatff]

...would that have to be toughened glass?

 

You can get glass tempered so it shatters into small pieces like car windscreen glass.

[Gnome]

...would that have to be toughened glass?

 

I would recon that it is due to it being for furniture. I would think they are put in a small kiln rather than through the large machines which toughen your windows as there is a greater risk of them shattering due to the tight curves and that is a pain to remove from the big machines.

 

You can see that the edges appear linished, this is both to remove the sharp edge for safety as well as prepare for toughening as the edge of the glass is the weak point with toughened glass so has to be linished before being toughened. If you look at windows when they are out of their frames, if the edges are razor sharp the glass is 99% not toughened. If they have been linished they probably will be toughened

The glass stamp should also tell you!!!

 

The glass has to be cut first. If you gut it after toughening...Boooooom. Well on this small scale it would just be a few choice words and back to the cutting table!!!

 

It is a great idea to mix the two materials, I would like him to go one step further and use glass fusing to incorporate materials into the glass, think it would bring out the wood grain even more.

 

Sorry for the trainspotting derail. Glass hmmmmm.

[NorfolknGood]

You can get glass tempered so it shatters into small pieces like car windscreen glass.

 

I'd rather the bugger didn't break in the first place