Inverse Triangle Cuts

by Gina
(Coventry, RI USA)

I'm having a terrible hard time trying to cut an inverse triange shape that is part of a piece. (Think of this as a corner of the triangle which cuts into my shape).

Answer

Hi Gina,

You are trying to make an impossible cut. There are several shapes that we just can't cut by hand, and the inverse triangle is one of them.
I'd highly recommend that you modify the pattern.

Score lines want to go as straight as possible, from one edge of the glass to the other. That is just the nature of glass. When you try to cut a V shape into glass, the slightest bump, heat from your soldering iron, anything at all can make the tip of that V keep running to the other edge of the glass. That's why I say to modify the pattern.

If you have access to a glass saw, you could cut the V with it. That would be fairly easy to do, but there is no guarantee that the glass won't fracture somewhere along the construction process or even after it is completed and hanging.

If you're determined to do it, at least round off the tip just a bit. You will have a much better chance of the piece not breaking with a rounded tip than a sharp point going into the glass.

Good luck with your project. When it is completed, take a picture and put it on the Photo Gallery page. I'd like to see it and I'm sure the visitors, that read this message, would like to see it also.

Sue