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Summary: For stained glass patterns, it's important to remove glass shards before adding copper foil. Learn how to remove the glass shards with grozers in this free video clip about using copper foiling for stained glass art.
Anna Comly started doing stained glass in early 2001, learning from an expert of already 15 years. She is skilled in design and construction of leaded windows, repair of damaged leaded...read more
"Hi. Today we're talking about copper foiling and right now, I would like to talk about flashing and your Grozer pliers. The Grozers are actually used for the flashing. Removal of the flashing. And, flashing is what occurs when you break a piece of your glass and there are these remaining extra shards, very sharp, on the edge, of one side of your glass. You want to be very careful with those. It's really easy to get cut by those. They're extremely, like razor sharp. So, what I'm going to do is, first, I'm going to put on my goggles because we don't want any pieces of glass to fly in my eyeballs, or yours and then you would pick up your glass. These are your Grozers. Okay, the Grozers have a rounded side, and a straight edge. If you notice, they have a grooved edge on both sides, like pliers and this is so that you can actually grind these pieces off. So, I would turn this over and find my flashing right there and I'm going to just kind of gently try and get that flashing off of there, like that. And if you can see, I've pretty much removed most of it. You'll be able to further smooth this with your grinder which we will get to later. These are your Grozers."
eHow Article: Removing Glass Shards with Grozers