Pshaw.. I'm living on past talent as my shop has had so many.....

Posted By: Westcoaster
Date: 1/2/10 9:01a.m.

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In Response To: Westy, you are a man of many talents! Including making stained glass windows! (link) (pic) (Bill Nolen, P-15 Babe)

...woodworking projects in the past couple years I've not done any glass. I hope to change that this summer. It's a small shop in my backyard and hard to do more than one thing at a time. Glass work takes up a lot of room what with layout, tools, cutting space, etc. I pretty much only do simple stuff with larger chunks of glass. Too lazy and too impatient for the hundreds of small glass pieces that some do. Somehow I got going on cats in the window(s) as a theme. My designs, such as they are, have evolved over time and in the more recent windows I just cut the cats out whole, so to speak, rather than do what is IMHO not so good a job of my cat segments contributing to the whole is a positive way. So the upper pic is more recent than the lower pic. A design I'd like to do next, when I get set up again, is to have the window done up separately from the cat and install the cat about a half inch or inch inboard of the window to add some 3-D effect. I can bridge the gap with some small rod here and there to maintain integrity of the parts. I try to do something different from time to time. I like to add in 'extras' and have been buying sterling silver earrings and necklaces building up a stock of fish, critters, odds and ends to incorporate in some piece one day. At the bottom is a glass burgee which was framed up for the Astoria Yacht Club of which I've been a member since about '80. It's been hanging in the club house for about five years now...