{"id":153,"date":"2005-08-26T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/stained-glass-is-tougher-than-it-looks\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T11:33:00","slug":"stained-glass-is-tougher-than-it-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/stained-glass-is-tougher-than-it-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"stained glass is tougher than it looks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I set up shop on the back porch for my first stained glass project last night. With instructions at the ready, I started out…<\/p>\n

1. Scoring the glass. Easy as pie – I didn’t try the more complicated inside curves, but the straight lines were literally a snap.<\/p>\n

2. Adding copper foil to the edges. Not bad – I had a little trouble with the first piece, but it wasn’t too tough once I got the hang of it.<\/p>\n

3. Adding flux. Doesn’t really count – any idiot could do that and this idiot was up to the challange.<\/p>\n

4. Soldering. We’ll start with the success part of this – the pieces of glass that I had prepped did stay together. However… ugly. Very ugly. <\/p>\n

I think my problem was that the soldering iron cooled down faster than I expected. I’d be going along for a couple of seconds and it was suddenly stop being helpful. I guess I was expecting it to stay hotter for longer than that. Apparently, I thought I was purchsing a powerful tool and bought Barbie’s First Soldering Iron ™. <\/p>\n

So, it’s pretty ugly and I was frustrated toward the end of the evening. Ironically, it took a while for the iron to cool down to where I could put it away – especially since I couldn’t get the stuff to stay hot for very long.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that was my first trial run. <\/p>\n

Last night I dreamed that a trans-dimensional shape-shifting cosmically powered alien landed in my parking space. It was the size of a gerbil. At least to start – then it started some pretty impressive shape shifting and ended up the size of a truck – though got back around to at least looking like a gerbil again. It went on and on about how it was there to study and test us – if we were worthy of keeping around after the invasion. I felt a little stressed that my actions might effect the fate of humanity, but I hung in there and made sure it had plenty of treats. I woke up before I learned what it concluded.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now – back to work…<\/p>\n

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