Here's a few suggestions....
1) You start by filing your teeth and nibbling.... :-)
2) Get the glass cutter, use it to scribe a line and snap the excess off.
I've lent my brother-in-law my last glass cutter - I'll never see it again!
3) Take it to the glass selling shop - the last one I did I took to a
double glazed window makers and the guy there did it, refusing to take any
payment whatsoever.
4) Grind it down using wet 'n dry paper - the same way you take chips out
of the rim on a wine glass or champagne flute.
5) Sharpen the smoothing plane at an angle of 53 degrees and use long slow
strokes.
6) Hold the piece in the sheet metal bending tool then tap with a hammer.
7) Use Perspex sheeting.
8) Use the same saw you cut the wood with held at a much shallower angle.
The clue here is that three of these ways will work although one of them is
'tacky'. One way is not so easily done but possible and four of them could
be downright impossible. Today's task is decide which is which. <Smile>
All the best
Guy R Day
nb for a 1/4 inch section scribe your line, a tad of pressure down from
the line side and tap along the scribed line from underneath. On thin
picture glass it isn't too hard; on thicker window glass there's much more
chance of cracking.
Also - watch a mobile glass fitter putting laminated glass into a shaped
window outline (say on a JCB digger) and see how he cuts curved corners. He
should be able to cut a hole through two layers of glass either side of a
layer of plastic. It puts my efforts to shame. My Grandfather could, I
can't.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Fisk" <refisk@chartermi.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Spridget 50th
> How do you easily knock a quarter inch off of the glass?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guy R Day" <grday@btinternet.com>
> To: <ryan.kubanoff@comcast.net>; "Shop at \" Just Brits \"
> <shop@justbrits.com>
> Cc: "spridget" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Spridget 50th
>
>
>> I'm surprised you can you look after, maintain and care for a Spridget,
>> keeping that on the road - without the ability to knock 1/4 inch off two
>> bits of wood or plastic frame.
>
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