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Step by Step Stained Glass InstructionsIf you're learning to work with stained glass, instructions are necessary to learn the techniques. Even if you've been working with glass for years, there are times when you need to review a technique that you haven't used for a while. This web site has many step-by-step tutorials, with pictures, covering a large range of stained glass techniques. Click on the links below to get to each specific tutorial.
Most of the following stained glass tutorials consist of more than one page of instructions. Once you have read the first page of the tutorial, click on the links near the bottom of the page to get to the next set of instructions. For instance, the Lead Came Tutorial consists of 1.Lead Came 2.Stretching and Cutting Lead Came 3.Setting Up Your Cartoon 4.Assembling A Leaded Panel 5.Soldering Lead Came 6.Putty A Leaded Panel.
Cutting glass can be difficult or easy, depending on your technique. These tips and techniques will give you do's and don'ts that will help you to improve you glass cutting skills:
Cutting Glass 
Learn how to make pattern pieces or learn about trace cutting with these instructions:
Pattern Pieces and Trace Cutting
Have you ever wanted to make an original design, but didn't think it would be possible? Learn how with these stained glass instructions:
Learn How To Design
Copper Foiling is, by far, the technique used most by the stained glass hobbiest. Here you will learn everything from setting up your cartoon to finishing the edges, as well as how
to repair it if it breaks:
Copper Foil
To learn how to clean the panel and get a perfect patina finish, go here:
Clean and Patina
These stained glass instructions will walk you through making a leaded panel. You will learn how to set up your cartoon, stretch and cut lead, lead up the glass, soldering, apply the putty, and polish and darken the lead:
Lead Came
Make a panel lamp shade, from making sure your pattern is symetrical to tinning a vase cap, with this tutorial:
Lampshade Construction
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This is where you can learn several ways to run the score once you have cut the glass:
How about a water prism? They make the most beautiful rainbows. Learn how to make one with this tutorial:
Making 3-D flowers is fun. Here's how:
