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So as I mentioned there are two different ways that you can join pieces of stained glass
and of course we have not gotten there yet. But we are actually going to cut this glass
up into shapes that are consistent with the design elements of our pattern, right we are
not just going to use them like this. But then you need a way to stick those pieces
together; you know to make them kind of stay how you want them and there is two ways how
this is done. One I mentioned we are not going to be doing today, it’s a technique called
lead cane, you buy these pieces, they are, you know they kind of come in these long straight
pieces and they have, they are either shaped like a “U” right. Imagine if you had a
U-shaped piece of lead, kind of a long kind of a piece like this, the glass kind of fits
kind of right in it and so it acts kind of like a frame around of whatever the glass
is and because it is made of lead it is soft and you can bend it to whatever shape you
need. They also make a cane that is more of a H-shape so that you could put, imagine that
you could put a piece of glass, fit a piece of glass into both sides and remember this
stuff is pretty thin, you know so that it just fits snugly up against the glass, you
can kind of press it and mash it down, you can cut it fairly easily into whatever lengths
you want, bend it whatever lengths you want, so a lot of the larger windows and larger
pieces and certainly the more artistic professional kind of pieces, many of them are done, especially
as I said the large ones with lead cane. We are not going to be doing that today. The
second method is a method called copper foil where again you cut your pieces and you puzzle
them together but instead of using lead cane we use a combination of a copper foil tape
and you can get this at stained glass supply stores and we will talk a little bit more
about it, use a combination that and solder and here’s a just kind of a spool of solder
that is sold for stained glass, we’ll talk a little bit about that too, and of course
you need a soldering iron for that so. And in that technique each piece of glass gets
wrapped in the foil tape and you kind of press down and burnished so it is kind of down real
tight and then we use the solder, the soldering iron to actually, and heat to kind of stick
them together in the end. So two different kinds of techniques of binding stained glass,
we are going to be doing copper foil method.