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Okay it is also good to have a second set of pliers where the tips are flat and square
and do come together parallel when they are closed and so look at these. This is kind
of a more normal set of pliers and in fact these are not even sold for stained glass
but you can get ones that are sold for stained glass, they are called grozing pliers and
I will explain that to you why in a moment and grozing pliers, they won't have kind of
this, sort of this, you know round area here like this set does and they will still have
these flat kind of parallel pieces that come together. They are serrated, I will turn this
a little so you can see they are actually serrated on the end and sides so that you
have a bit of a grip. Ones that are sold for stained glass especially will often, that
this area will be longer, even maybe up to an inch or more, but still the key is that
they come together parallel. And what those pliers are used for are if you cut a piece
of glass and it has a sort of irregular edge, like let's say that the cut is not as clean
as you would like it to be, there is still some little bits of glass sticking out. Oftentimes
you have that problem when you cut curves, you use the grozing pliers with your safety
glasses obviously to basically on a very fine scale grab and cut and break off and nip off
little pieces of glass that are making that cut irregular so think of it as kind of, almost
like a set of fingernail clippers that you use to trim down glass if your cut is not
as smooth as you would like it to be. So again, your breaking pliers the tip, the tips don't
come together parallel, they come together at an angle, just at the very tip, they tend
to be sort of broad, your grozing pliers will come together parallel, they are flat, they
have serration here, and you using them for cleaning up irregular cuts.