Re: Glass cutting

Tony,
I saw a lady cutting some pretty neat shapes in stained glass using a
3 wheel bandsaw. You could for sure do puzzles with it.

If you do a search on glass cutting bandsaws you will get some hits on
glass cutting blades. If I recall right they weren't all that
unreasonable.

Now... can anyone tell me how to CNC a bandsaw for scroll cutting? The
only CNC bandsaws I found were all straight line cutters.

Roger

> A glass cutter has been on my to-do-eventually list for a while.

Glass is

> pretty strong stuff - almost as strong as steel. Not quite as tough

though.

>
> Straight lines are easy, score and flex. You can tap on the back of the
> glass and it will crack where the score is. Or it'll go where it feels
> like, it's hard to tell. :)
>
> Curves are hard, especially tight inside curves. There are special

tools

> (pliers basically) for nibbling out the scrap glass.
>
> If that machine can cut out a jigsaw puzzle piece I'll be seriously
> impressed. (I've seen a water jet do it). It's still an interesting
> machine.
>
> Diamond scribers are cheap, like the diamond dressing wheels for

grinders

> you get. Amuses me that I have a couple of 1 carat diamonds in my

toolbox

> (funky earrings!). Wheel ones are easier to guide on curves, so are

easier

> to find.
>
> I wish I could do the TV burglar trick.
>
> Tony
>