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So where do you get this glass? One thing about glass that is sold for stained glass
art is that it is all generally a uniform thickness. I mean that is not completely true,
even in the five pieces of glass that I have on the table there is variation but you know
it looks like it is about, you know, about an eighth of an inch thick give or take you
know a few sixteenths, so you know you are not using really, really thick heavy glass.
If you need to make a heavier window or heavier panel you can always make a stained glass
piece out of thin glass like this and then when it is done if it is really flat you can
sandwich it between two panes of glass, you know clear glass and then make a much thicker
piece if you want to, but where do we get this glass. Well obviously either stained
glass supply houses you can go to that specialize in all kinds of, you know, just the glass
itself and different equipment and supplies that you need. But, and even a lot of larger
kind of craft and hobby stores will have some selection of stained glass. You will find
that different pieces have different prices and the prices are usually reflective of a
couple of things, one is often kind of how strong and how bright and intense the colors
are, and the other just has to do with where that glass come from. I mean comes from, some
glass that comes from Europe is obviously going to be more expensive because of shipping
and some of that glass is called antique glass, even if it is modern glass it will still be
called antique glass. But you know, like I, I actually still have the price tags on some
of these, this piece was about six dollars for a piece like this, it’s about a, it's
about, you know, about a square foot and you will find that a lot of times this glass is
sold by the square foot or the half square foot, this piece was about nine dollars. There
is pieces that you can get that will be fifteen or twenty dollars per square foot, maybe even
more than that, depending on how complex the glass is and how rare it is and where it comes
from. But uh, yeah, just look in your phone book and find a stained glass supply house
and if not you can just try kind of your large local sort of art and craft hobby center type
of, type of business.