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Posted by The Shadow on September 16, 2007, 10:49 pm
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> Bought this a couple weeks back but I haven't really been home much to
> watch it. Finally checked it out this morning. I haven't done a
> Tiffany lamp yet but it looked really thorough and impressive. I was
> happy that he didn't go over a bunch of beginner stuff that I already
> know. There were several things that surpised me a little.
>
> First he uses three sizes of copper tape, 3/16" and the one on either
> side, depending on the thickness of the glass. I just figured that
> you chose one size for a lamp and that's what you went with.
>
> Second, I was surprised that he didn't mark around the pattern piece
> onto the glass. He just held the pattern piece onto the glass and cut
> around it.
>
> Third was a real epiphany for me. He used Kokomo glass and he showed
> the full sheets before he started cutting them. I was stunned. At
> least one of them was a blotchy horrible mess of red and green and
> white and brown. I thought it ugly. But when he laid out the
> patterns on the glass and cut it and pieced it together, I saw how the
> blending of the several colors in the one sheet gave the design depth
> and complexity. I realized that my idea of stained glass work was a
> childish coloring book approach with solid pink for the flowers, green
> for the leaves, and sky blue.
>
> Michael
http://www.toplamps.de/SeitenTulip22E/Tulip00.htm
This is a very interesting website devoted to the construction of Tiffany
pattern lamps.
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