Cleaning Up Cut Glass

Video Transcript

"Hi. We're talking about copper foiling today. Right now, I want to talk about how to clean up your work area. It's very important, as you're cutting your glass that you always make sure that your work area is free of any glass shards because that could cause your glass to run in a way that you don't want it to, and then you break your glass, have to buy more and it could get quite expensive. So, first of all, I'm going to put on my goggles, because I don't want to get any flying specks in my eye. I'm going to cut a piece to show you the pieces that break off. And then, I'm going to show you the brush that we use to clean it up. So, I don't know if you can see any of that. There's just a couple pieces of glass. Actually, I'll use these right here. I'd already cleaned my space before this, but these are the types of little shards of glass that you get when you're cutting your glass and what you'd want to use is one of these bench brushes. You can buy these at your local art store and also, have a handy dust pan ready. And you can just go ahead and bring that on up to your table. Make sure that you gather all of your glass shards and sweep them off into your dust pan. Now, it's very important that you do not use your hands for this process because as you could guess, if you ran your hand over here to clean off your area, which is very easy for us to do. That's what we do with bread crumbs, and stuff off our counters, but you will get those glass shards in your fingers and that will not be fun."