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Ben Ganyo here for Expert Village and we're going to make a kaleidoscope. Right now we
are going to cut our own glass. If you don't want to use the shortcut method I showed you
of buying the little glass squares and gluing them to the popsicle stick and you really
feel adventurous and want to cut your own glass. So, we got a picece of glass. Now,
this is a little bit smaller than what you're going to actually use--you probably want to
use one that's three to four inches long so you get your one long piece, but this is essentially
the process. Take the glass and take a straight edge--we're using a T-Square. This is a glass
cutter. You can get it at Home Depot or a glass shop--anywhere. They're just like six
dollars. And you're going to cut like this. You only want to do one pass because what
happens is if you do more than one pass it could make little shards of glass or imperfect
pieces. You want to get one straight line and you want to make it go perpendicular down
on to the glass, perfectly straight up and down. So once you put it down just a touch
before the edge, you want to press very good and *** it. And run right off the end.
And then you just take it and press it on the...you're going to hold the part that you
cut and you're going to break that away from the whole rest of the piece. So you just snap
back and there's our piece of glass cut just the way we wanted it--not too difficult.