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Okay, so in order to cut the glass you need a glass cutter, but in order to break that
glass after you cut it, you need a, you are probably going to want to get some pliers.
So what I mean by that, is that all the glass cutter does is score the glass, that is to
say it kind of provides a very shallow crack along which the glass will break when you
break it but it doesn't you know, cut the glass apart the way a razor blade does or
something. It just kind of scores the glass with a thin crack and then you have to break
that glass in a controlled manner. There is a few ways to do it, you can do it with your
hands, you can do it on the table, we will go through some of those methods. One way
to do it is with pliers, now, so one of the sets of pliers that you get should be a set
of breaking, glass breaking pliers and if you go to a stained glass supply store you
will be able to find some. What they, the thing that makes them breaking pliers is if
you look at tip, see how the tip comes together at an angle? Right, the tip is not, the two
sides of the pliers don't come together parallel, or come together flat, they come together
at an angle. Furthermore, this particular set of pliers I like has kind of this sort
of rubber kind of shoe, this kind of protective rubber, kind of on top of the metal which
allows you to get a firm grip but it still provides a little bit of kind of protection
of digging into that glass or maybe cracking that glass even more. So you don't need to
have those, that sort of rubber housing on the tips but I like it. And in this particular
set of breaking pliers, it also has a stop screw here where, depending on where you set
it you can, so if I have it in all the way, you see it kind of goes kind of through there,
now my pliers won't close any more than that, so that can be helpful if you are working
with glass of different thickness, you just sort of put your glass in there and then turn
this until it tightens up so no matter how much you squeeze you are not going to be putting
any more pressure on the glass but you can imagine if I have the glass scored and you
know I have it in like this, I don't need a lot of pressure all I really need to do
is just kind of bend down and if there is any kind of a score line there my glass will
break and we are going to go through that technique so don't worry about it just yet.
So that is your breaking pliers and in the next clip I am going to talk about the other
pliers which are used for grozing.