Use a Glass Cutter for Stained-Glass Projects

Video Transcript

"Okay, so we have already talked about glass and what kind of glass there is and where to get glass, but you need something to cut up the glass with and there are several different kinds of glass cutters. Most of them look something like this, I mean there is a few different kinds but most of them look something like this. This kind of a shape, and this particular one, I don't know if you can see but it has a little wheel here and I think this one is probably a steel wheel, a steel wheel glass cutter and so it has a little wheel here that is basically kind of like a very stiff steel blade and it kind of rolls here. You can see me rolling it with my finger, these are fairly inexpensive, there are more expensive glass cutters that you can get that have a carbide blade or a lubricated blade and so, I mean there is, you can spend a lot of money on a glass cutter if you want to. You kind of don't need to if you are just getting into it, just one like this, a steel wheel glass cutter will be fine, and like I say it has kind of a little blade here. Sometimes they might have a diamond coated blade or something like that but it is really not necessary to get too fancy with your glass cutter just yet and a glass cutter like this can and they all are able to do, can cut straight lines, curves, short lines, long lines, they are actually really pretty versatile, you just have to learn how to use them. "