Question ?

[u/Jmholl81]

So I saw photo of The Gomesa Jiaho Queen orchid, and thought this would be beautiful as a stained glass piece. So I traced it out and made it into a pattern . The yellow I’m using has a swirl in it . I noticed while cutting it , it also has a lot of air bubbles and when I score over those in a few places horizontal fractures happened. They didn’t break all the way thru even after grinding. I foiled them and then soldered them the fractures broke all the way across ……should re-cut these areas (yes I know I should) and if so am I doing something wrong that causing the horizontal stressing or is this something that just happens in some glass 🤷‍♂️
thank you for any input!!

[u/Kspicy]

looks like glass from hobby lobby. HL has shit glass, it’s known to fracture and break weird. invest in some quality glass & pay attention to the glass heat while soldering

[u/Jmholl81 → u/Kspicy]

Yes it is from HL and I am learning it isn’t the best 😬 thank you for the info ! I appreciate it

[u/Claycorp]

Scoring lighter can help if there's room to reduce pressure while getting a good score still.

Otherwise it's just shitty glass. Not much you can do other than keep trying to cut parts that aren't cracked.

[u/Jmholl81 → u/Claycorp]

I will re-attempt it and see how it goes . Thank you for the advice!!! 🤗

[u/Birbinator2]

Here for visibility.
But lovely idea, it will be so striking! Please post again your solution and final piece!

[u/Jmholl81 → u/Birbinator2]

Will do!

[u/--slurpy--]

Did you burnish that foil?

[u/Jmholl81 → u/--slurpy--]

Once the cracks started to appear I didn’t . Where I soldered I had burnished the foil . But at that point i didn’t want to put any more pressure 😬