Sapphireblue.com Presents: Adventures in Dangerous Art (Math I'd've Been Better Off Not Doing)

Finished grinding all my edges on all my pieces tonight. There is one piece of green waterglass I will have to recut because the grinder chipped a tiny piece out of one corner. Not sure if maybe it was a bad cut to begin with, or maybe I caught the glass against the grinder head at an angle, or what.

The lead cames I bought Friday night lurked ominously on the basement's cement floor, taunting me as I tried to grind good true edges, exactly to the edges of the glued paper templates. 5/32" face width minus 1/16" heart width divided by 2 sides of the "H" leaves me with a margin for error, in cutting and grinding, of forty-seven thousandths of an inch.

On the left, my lead ''H'' cames. Each side of the ''H'' is a 3/64'' channel where the glass slides in and is later soldered firmly in place. On the right, sturdier zinc ''U'' came for the outside edges of my panel. The channel in perimeter came is bigger, at a whole 1/8'' inch, plus there's a hollow air space whose purpose is... uh... something, I'm sure.

On the left, my lead ''H'' cames. Each side of the ''H'' is a 3/64'' channel where the glass slides in and is later soldered firmly in place. On the right, sturdier zinc ''U'' came for the outside edges of my panel. The channel in perimeter came is bigger, at a whole 1/8'' inch, plus there's a hollow air space whose purpose is... uh... something, I'm sure.

Posted by Michelle on October 21, 2002 11:44 PM

I don't see nuthin' wrong with a little bumpy grind.

Posted by: Don on October 22, 2002 10:05 AM

*laugh* If you knew how hard I resisted my urge to name my "Slave to the Grind" update after that skeevy skeevy song... It's all your fault.

Posted by: Michelle on October 22, 2002 11:20 AM


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