How To Work With Thin Glass Sheets

Any grime or silica on the glass can ruin your score.

How to work with thin glass sheets.

To get such thin strong glass as thin as 25 microns thinner than a human hair the company sucks molten glass directly out of a giant vat and into a set of rollers while it s still cooling. Avoid working over carpet because of the risk of getting glass shards on the floor if the glass breaks. Try not to have any gaps or skips in your score line. You ll need a large flat surface preferably one that is slightly soft and won t scratch your glass.

How to cut acrylic sheet by hand with only hand tools. Doing so gives you enough glass to hold when breaking and helps support the glass. How to cut acrylic sheet by hand. Uses for acrylic sheets.

Lay the sheet on a flat surface and. In this video this old house tile contractor joe ferrante explains how to work with glass tile. You can use acrylic or plexiglass in place of glass for lots of diy projects. For a thin sheet of plexiglass that is material up to about 3 16 inch thick use a scoring method not dissimilar from a technique used to cut actual glass.

2 smooth thinset with straight edge trowel and wet sponge. 1 mix thinset mortar then trowel a thin skim coat onto the backsplash wall. Work in an area that is easy to clean. Place two strips of masking tape in an x shape across one side of the glass pane and then follow up with four smaller x shapes within the quarters created by the first x.

This helps reinforce the entire structure and will keep most of the glass shards together if the pane breaks during transport. For their own safety keep pets and children away from your workspace and materials step 2 clean the glass surface in the area where you plan to make cuts. Position all your pattern templates at least 1 to 2 inches away from the edges of the glass. Here are some examples.

Step 1 set up your work area. 3 lay out the 12 x 12 inch tile sheets on countertop. I recently used a clear acrylic sheet to make this lego bin for my son.