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Glass Cutting with Guy (Part 2 - 1/4" Mirror)
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so that was how you cut double strength
for a two inch class now I'm going to
show you how to cut quarter inch glass
I've got a quarter inch mirror here that
I've already marked out 99% of the
mirrors that you're going to take off a
wall in a bathroom are going to be
quarter inch glass basically the scoring
is the same and let me go ahead and show
you that the the breakout is a little
different different it's a little more
difficult I'm going to show you a couple
of different ways to do that all right
so once again you dip the glass cutter
and your oil make a couple passes you
spread the oil out without putting any
pressure on the mirror
all right that's your score now the
first way to break this is to run it
with your fingers it's a little more
difficult if you have the hand strength
you can do this otherwise in a second
I'm going to show you how to do a
different way just like that another way
to break out a scar with a quarter inch
piece of glass is to put a straight edge
underneath it and you're going to want
to do this if you can't snap it with
your fingers the smaller the piece of
glass the harder it is to snap with your
fingers especially if you're just
cutting a smaller chunk off of the glass
so what you do is you put your
straightedge and you put the score right
in the middle of the straight edge you
can use a yardstick for this and then
you just apply pressure evenly until
it's snaps just like that and then you
carefully remove that piece of glass
away so they don't clink clink into each
other when you're removing them one last
thing after you've cut the glass the
edges are very sharp so you have to be
careful handling the glass and in a lot
of cases you're going to want to take
that sharpness off there's a couple of
ways you can do it if you have a piece
of sandpaper you can just hit the edges
we put our sandpaper on a sanding block
which works great too that's all you
need to do take the sharpness off if
you're doing a mirror and you're doing
the backside you want to make sure
you're going away from the silvery area
because if you go down that way you can
flake the mirror if you need a more
professional edge along the flat you can
take a belt sander
and finishes that way or if you have a
circular grind you can use that also so
that wraps up our last cunning video I
hope you enjoyed it
I'm Guy Solinsky with American glass and
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