Fitting the Mold for Stained Glass

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"ALLISON KLINGER: On behalf of ExpertVillage.com, my name is Allison at Western Art Glass. And we are in the next step of doing our stepping stone. The last segment, we did our pattern preparation as far as numbering and labeling for colors and grains, okay? What we need to do next, as this was a pattern from just a stained-glass pattern book, I need to make sure before I start cutting my glass, that this pattern is going to fit in this mold, okay? What you're going to do, you can somewhat gauge it on the top, which really doesn't show you a whole lot. So basically, if all else fails, just put your mold right on top, okay? Try and center it on there if you can. Okay? Put it on there, just trace around the mold. Hopefully, if we're lucky, it's going to be centered on there perfect, okay? Take that off. That's pretty good. Thank you very much. There it is. There is the shape of our mold. What this means is part of my tip here is the only one that kinda got shafted over there. So just because I can, I'm just going to finish this off just a little bit and disregard the rest of that piece. This is going to look normal. So anyway, before you start cutting glass, it's very vital that you check the shape of the mold first to make sure your pattern fits, okay? So at that point, you're good to go. You need to take some regular scissors or some foil scissors, which has that groove in the shear--available from your local stained glass store--and cut these pattern pieces apart. If you're using regular scissors, cut that black line up. See you on the next step. Check it out."