Stained Glass Lamp with Mitered Corners

Made on a Glowforge
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WOWWWWWW, so beautiful!!!

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the lamp is pretty enough but the cuts are genius. great jig, great idea.

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Beautiful!!!

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Absolutely amazing!!! Wonderful work!

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I love your creative use of materials. The stained glass effect is really effective in the photos. Do you mind if I ask how close you need to be to notice that it isn’t actually glass? The stained glass and the miter are both giving me a lot of ideas. Great project!

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Well, hmmmm, I’ve got it in front of me right now and it pretty much looks like glass from closer than arm’s length. If you want more photos just holler!

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That’s fantastic! Any chance you have a photo of the mitering jig on its own?

I’m just curious if you built a little triangle-shaped box, or if you just leaned the wood on a flat piece of plywood on end and hoped (obviously successfully) that the whole thing wouldn’t tip…

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Here is a photo of the jig by itself. Just two 45 degree triangles glued to a flat piece. Some double sided tape on the card stock keeps the wood to be cut from slipping.

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Thanks! That’s fantastic! :trophy:

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Surd.

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Oh! Thanx. Surd is a class not just this constant but still, having the clue I learned something.
All the time I’ve messed with it I don’t think I ever realized that it was the square root of two.
I’ve always just known it as the ratio for a 45d right triangle which makes it important in alternating current theory.

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This experiment definitely needs to be revived. :slight_smile: #necrogame

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Very cleaver! Great design. So I guess using this method I would need to cut the bottom out of the Glowforge and raise it up to do longer materials.

Thanks for sharing with me,

Cory

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Really beautiful work — I am for sure going to try the engraved-embossed stained glass technique! —S