Stained Glass Lampshade Project

It has been a while since my last post. Mark came down with pneumonia and just got out of the hospital today. Now we can get back to our project again once he is feeling up to it.

We have taken on a huge project. Mark is in a wood working club and they offer classes for the members. One of the classes is stained glass. You get to select the pattern that interests you and I picked out this beautiful hummingbird lampshade. It's taking a lot of time and effort, but will all be worth it in the end. Take a look at the progress so far.

There are several steps to creating a stained glass project. Here below is Mark ginding the pieces of the glass. To the top, you can see where I was sitting to cut the glass using paper templetes to form the shapes. To Mark's left, you can see where he's placing the glass into the frame that holds the pieces in place.

Below is a picture of one of the four sets of glass panes that are to be created for the lampshade. The top one has the pieces placed in the frame. The bottom one has the pieces with the paper templete removed, then the piece is ground and placed into it's spot.


This photo below shows all of the pieces ground and in place for these two panes of the lampshade.

This photo below shows the ground pieces of glass with the foil wrapped on them.

That's how far we are at this point. I only have two of the panes completely foiled so far. There are four different hummingbird panes that make up the lampshade. Once all of the eight panes are foiled, the soldering will begin on each side of the pane. Then the eight panes will be soldered together to assemble the lampshade.