How to Glue Glass Mosaics

Video Transcript

"Okay, now I'm going to show you how, in this segment, to how to glue some of these pieces onto the wood. I'm just going to use a scrap piece of wood to do this bit. Get your glue ready. Now I'm going to show you how you might glue these pieces onto the wood. I just, my own personal way of doing it is to smear the glue on the back like this, and say put it on like this. Now you have a choice. You can put it close to the edges or you could leave a little strip along the edge where you might put the grout in. And you want to leave a little space in between these pieces because the grout's going to go in there. So you don't put them right up against each other, but leave a little space if you can. You don't want to leave great big, wide spaces though, because that looks really bad. I would say to let this whole piece dry overnight before you start putting grout on it because the glue isn't, doesn't stick that well. It takes hours for it to dry. It sticks on there well enough so that you can work on the whole piece and leave it. And again, I don't put the bunch of pieces on there, which they might do if you were doing a stained glass piece, but in a mosaic if you put a bunch of pieces on it they're liable to slip around different ways. And you have to have your idea ahead of time what you're doing. At least that's my way of doing it."