Taping Glass for Shadow Box Frame

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jon on behalf of Expert Village. In this video clip I will be talking about taping off the glass. Now that we have completed our final sanding we need to prepare our work piece to be able to stain it. What we're going to have to do is tape off the glass, because when we do stain it we're not going to want the stain to get onto the glass especially since we made our frame with the glass piece so that it can not be removed. First I'm going to cover my glass with masking tape. I'm going to get as close to the frame as I can but I'm going to leave a little bit hanging off as extra. Next I'm going to work in both sides with a putty knife just so that I can get in as close as I can to that glass. After that I'm going to take a razor blade and I'm going to cut my tape away, all that excess. We are going to continue doing this with the entire front side of the glass, then we're going to flip over our frame and do it with the entire back side of our glass. This is going to ensure us that when we stain it and finish it, there will be no stain that will get on the glass and no finish that's going to get on the glass."