Stained Glass Soldering :: Tips & Tricks to Get You Through Every Step
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- Hello everyone, thank you SO much for your patience! In this video I'll share with you how I solder my projects. This video is a start to finish walk through of how I do each step - from setting up my work station to incorporating copper wire details. As with any skill, this will get easier the more you practice.
As with all steps of stained glass, PLEASE make sure you're wearing the appropriate safety gear! If you have questions please feel free to ask.
If you have any video suggestions, please leave a comment with your idea!
Timestamps:
Intro- 00:00
Setup - 01:18
Temperature settings - 02:02
Pins - 03:22
Tacking - 03:34
Copper Wire - 04:56
Tinning - 05:51
Soldering pace - 06:17
Bit by bit vs. continuous flow - 06:58
Connecting solder lines - 08:15
Lead came - 09:04
Soldering the back - 09:49
Jump rings - 10:18
Shop:
www.etsy.com/shop/sunbearglas...
Patreon:
/ sunbearglasscraft
Social media:
Instagram @SunBearGlassCraft
TikTok: @SunBearGlassCraft
Music used:
Opening and closing song:
Music Credit: Homie Cat
Track Name: 'Downtown Cafe'
Official "Homie Cat" Spotify HERE - open.spotify.com/artist/01eWi...
Official "Homie Cat" SoundCloud HERE - / homie-cat
Official "Homie Cat" Instagram HERE - / homiecatbeats
License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported "Share Alike" (CC BY-SA 4.0) License. Full License HERE - creativecommons.org/licenses/... Music promoted by Daddo Music - th-cam.com/channels/Paa.html...
Mid video song:
"Arcadia" by White Bat Audio
• Chill Synthwave - Arca...
Check out White Bat Audio:
whitebataudio.com/
/ @whitebataudio - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Oh my goodness, PLEASE make as many videos as you can! I just started a few months ago, and I'm teaching myself too. Your tips on glass cutting and soldering have totally stepped up my game... I'm grateful! Articulate and patient... I'm so happy to have found your channel!!
Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm so happy my videos have helped! I am going to try and get a video out every two weeks :)
❤ Hummingbirds
This is, in my opinion, the best stained glass soldering video. Honest, straightforward, simple. Thank you very much.
Wow, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for sharing this video. Absolutely incredible
This is a refresher video for me. I haven’t made anything in stained glass for 16 years. I’m getting excited to start a project after watching your video.
Thank you, you are so good at explaining and giving tips!! I appreciate it!
This is hands down the BEST stained glass soldering video tips & technique video available to the public. I am new to the art and have been obsessively watching videos and taking classes from as many different instructors as possible so I can see all of the different ways that each person chooses to go about with the process and this video is just *chefs kiss* - thank you for making this available to ANYONE and for being so thorough and detailed, you have the best close-up shots that are incredibly helpful when you’re trying to explain things like the air bubbles in this video, for instance. Thanks again!!
Your videos are SO helpful! Thank you ☺️
This is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much. Bring on more! I love love love your artwork.
sooo informative,massive THANK YOU!!!!
This piece is so beautiful!!! 🤩
Great thanks. I did a bit of stain glass work 30 years ago and I needed a reminder!
I find glass head sewing pins work really well for keeping smaller projects together. Thanks for the video.
Just LOVE your tutorials! Self taught in the process and so lucky to have found your vid’s!
I retired in September. I have ordered some suppliers not to start any project buts just to learn how to use these tools and familiarize myself with cutting, soldering and practice, practice, practice. Making my first project can come later. Thanks and I have subscribed to your channel.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm starting my very first stained-glass project this week and this was very helpful.
Thank you, nice simple steps, just what I’ve been looking for!,,
The best tip ever! Soldering bit by bit! Thanks so much!!!!!
Holy smokes I just watched two of your videos right now and learned a ton! Can't wait to go back and fix some of my pieces using your tips!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Great tips! Thank you!
Awesome! Can't wait to try it out.
This video was incredibly helpful, very detailed and thorough. I appreciate all your tips and tricks an different lens angles ❤️❤️
Thank you! Very helpful. Love your work
Thank you! Just what I needed this week!
Wonderful! I hope it helps :)
So excited to subscribe!! Outstanding teacher. So appreciative.
I love your soldering technique. Your project is beautiful.
Thank you very much,great tips !!!
Great video. So helpful.
Lovely piece, thank you for sharing. I'm trying to improve on my soldering skills.
Thank you so much. I really like your technique and your mannerism.
Well done. Thanks!
Love your way of teaching
This is great! I am beginning and a bit intimidated but these videos are great! Thank you !🙏💜
This is great! Thanks!!!
Thank you. I've wanted to do this my whole life & covid lockdown trauma put me into glass mode. You are a blessing!
Fantastic information , the best yet , leaves the others behind . Explained and shown perfectly.. thank you ☺️
I'm so glad you liked the video - thanks for watching!
I am fairly new to the world of Stain glass and loving your videos.
Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge! I have only been doing stained glass for about 7 months. I am taking a weekly class, but I was struggling with the soldering. Your video has helped me in so many ways! Thank you!
Thank you!!! I’m about to take my first class and I’m so excited to maybe be able to do what you have done here one day :)
Such a good video!!! You’re a natural!!!
Thank you :)!
Great video and happy you are staying busy!
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks so much :)
Thank you!! ♥️♥️
Probably I’ll never do it, but watching it was SO satisfying 🥰
Dang it all girl, well done!! First, the choice of a Hummingbird, the glass and lead work and your editing, close ups were needed as I was already leaning in. Very crisp glass work and video. Nice🤩. I am now repairing work I did 41 years ago and I’m still learning. Thank You.
Thank you so much! I' so glad you enjoyed the video.
Wow awesome thank you 🙏🏼 😁
I LOVE the way you solder. As a newbie, I find this makes so much sense to me!
I'm so glad to hear this! Soldering can be so intimidating at first but just practice practice practice and it'll get easier :) Thanks for watching
Great video! I enjoyed watching your technique and you were right on with your instruction! Keep up the good work. 😀😀😀
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that ☺️❤!
Thank you so much for this. I struggle with solder (but getting better day by day) but this is going to be so helpful!
Practice practice practice! I didn't feel confident with my soldering until about a year and a half in. Keep at it and it'll be a breeze in no time :)!
I love your videos. Looking forward to more!!!
Thank you so much :)!
I just bought my first kit and your videos are a life saver!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I'm so glad to hear it - thanks for watching :)!
Thank you thank you!!! ✨
I am fixing an old stain glass window piece and it will be my first time! I’m
Nervous but excited
Thank you for this video! It is super helpful. I couldn’t figured out how to attach a u-came as a border. I now see not to foil the outer edge at all.
Appreciate all the details!
I'm so happy I could help :)
Your videos are so helpful! Im doing research and yours are the best
Thank you 🥺❤!
You and your work are so awesome and beautiful aswell
Thank you!
Thank you so much for all the tips!! I’m just getting started in stained glass and this was so informative. I inherited my set up & haven’t figured out how to utilize the copper wire for details, so thank you for sharing :)
I'm so glad you found the video helpful! Good luck getting started :)
Great video Rachel!
Thank you!!
You inspire me, Rachel, please go on ... Greetings from Egypt 🌷
Hello from sunny Florida! Thanks for your kind words :)!
I have been doing stained glass for over 25 years and I have to say you are good. Keep it up, I will keep watching.
Thank you so much :)
You are a natural teacher, love your videos, I just might pull out my stained glass stuff that I have not done for 37 yikes years.
Thank you so much, this means a lot!
this is so helpful holy cow
Exellent! Thanks!
Happy to help :)!
This way Soooooo helpful!! I have been taking a class at a local studio and just started soldering yesterday! We tinned out pieces first and then went in to solder. I was so nervous lol. I did a fairly good job on the first half but I have more to do...
Ho early...this is gonna be so helpful going into my next class! Thank you so much!
Also..I would love to know where you got your gloves! I so need a pair!!!!
Tremendous 😊
Thanks for the tutorial on soldering stained glass. It looks easy enough. I've been a certified solderer for 30+ years so im pretty sure its doablle!
As to your first solder iron, that 75 & 80 setting is probably 750° & 800°, i would think anyways. That is where i like to solder too..either leaded or lead free. Its fast & melty.
You have great passion and do really great at explaining what you are doing and why, you have a real natural gift. I did stained glass when I was really young because my parents were both into it. So, decided to pick it up again, and see if I enjoy it as I once did.. Got my supplies but trying to come up with a starting point.
Thanks so much, Tom! My first project was just tracing a leaf from my favorite plant and turning it into a sun catcher :) Nothing wrong with starting simple!
Thank you. I'm just getting started and learning how to cut the glass out and foiling.
Thanks for watching :)!
I really enjoyed ur videos
This is one hobby I have always wanted to take up. I always imagine it to be an expensive hobby though...I thinking more buying the glass? What equipment in all do you need for this hobby ie glass.cutter etc. If it's not beyond my means I would really love to give it a good. I am an artist and have an infinite amount of patience, so taking my time is not an issue for me.
Thank you so much!! My grandpa was supposed to teach me before he passed, but was never able to show me. I've had his soldering iron collecting dust, but was so scared it was going to be too frustrating to learn. It's like metal painting!!
Helloooo! First time on your channel, but I recommend cutting the wire, if you can, instead of holding the whole roll in your left hand, because it'll help prevent getting carpal tunnel in the future. I have served for years, and I am getting it at the age of 31 from carrying trays for so long, and I saw another channel with that tip for soldering, so I wanted to pass it along because carpal tunnel is very painful.
After about 15 seconds I had to subscribe. Your enthusiasm is infectious! I struggle with soldering more than anything else ( I’m a 4 month novice) So thanks for your tips , great vid 👍
Thank you so much! I'm happy to be able to share my knowledge with the world :) Soldering was something I struggled with a lot in the beginning, so I completely understand how you feel. It takes a while to feel comfortable with it so just keep at it and I promise it'll get easier!
Great video!! I’m a beginner :)
Glad you liked it :) Welcome to the craft
I was always taught that you WANT the solder to flow through your project on the first soldering because that's what creates more strength and stability. Also, the more you fill in all the cracks and holes, the less bubbling you have when you solder the back of the project.
Hi Rachel... Just a tip as per one of your subscribers question re Iron Tips not holding solder... The tip needs cleaned and when this happens I use a SRA Sal Ammoniac Tinning Block to clean my soldering Iron Tips... Amazon has them. Google it too... Thanks for your videos...!
I was about half way through my first large panel project (180 pieces) and it was terrible. A gift my daughter asked me to make for Christmas. I spent $200 on glass and foil and solder etc. I was using liquid flux and had contaminated it, and flooded the big gaps with it! I was also using heavily textured glass as well as a variety of thicknesses, so I soldered the back first. A disaster. Boiling trapped flux, globs of solder and thick ugly lines. After this video, I ran out and bought gel flux, turned up the temp on my iron from 350° to 410° and even bought extra glass incase I cracked some. Then, I tried the bit by bit method. Gel flux just on the very tip of the brush, half a teaspoon in the cap max. I made my first perfect bead line. Then another, and another! I re-melted every line and boiled off all the trapped liquid flux. It's beautiful! You saved the project and I can't thank you enough! (And not a single cracked piece of glass)
Oh wow!! I am so happy to hear that my video helped you ☺️! Hooray for a beautifully finished project and no cracked glass ❤!
I’m completely new to this, what is around the edges of the glass? Do you have a video on how to do that?
Wonderful explanation on how to solder and ALWAYS giving us the encouragement to stick with it and practice and improve along the way. I see you have the wet sponge but not the steel wool to clean your tip with. I am wondering if they are equal in keeping your iron tip clean or if it is just your preference? Thank you, Anne
Love to get some off the gloves you use for soldering. Can you steer me in the right direction? Love your personality . Thank you
How pretty! I love stained glass but handling the soldering gives me anxiety. (My Dad was a welder and stressed BE CAREFUL and DON'T LOOK AT IT so often when I was small, that I think it has translated in my mind to soldering too.) I will follow your channel and see that I can do it too, if I really want to. Thanks for videos.
I'm so glad to have come across your video!
What is the board you are working on? I'm trying to figure out what's the best surface to work on.
this was so helpful! ive only been doing this a few months and this was one of the best explanations ive seen. also!!! i bought copper wire and couldnt find anything explaining when and how to apply them for detailing so this is a lifesaver
Ahhh this makes me so happy, I'm so glad I could help!! There were NO resources for using copper wire so I love being able to help those like yourself who are just starting 🥰
@@sunbearglasscraft8065 What brand of copper wire do you recommend?
@@1Kitykat I would like to know also and the size 14?
I'm so sorry I never saw this comment! I recently ordered from anything in stained glass, no brand. I regularly use 16g, but also have 14g and 20g
Hi Mary! I recently ordered a roll from anything in stained glass. I regularly use 14g, 16g, and 20g. 16g is my most common size for details and jump rings
I have watched many stained glass videos, you are the best teacher, no doubt about that. Thank you and hopefully you will give us more tips. You are talented!
Thanks for the tips, you make it look easy, which I know it’s not.
thanks for watching! it took lots of practice and failures to get here :)
Could you make a video how to apply the came around the piece? This video is excellent!!!
Love your video. How did you produce the black part of the pansy flower? Thanks
What kind of solder do you use for this project. Thank you for your advice on how to solder.
Your tips are most helpful. Can you tell me what gauge of pre-tinned copper wire that you used on this hummingbird & that you refer for making jump rings for hanging pieces? Thank you!
Thanks. Just getting back to doing stained glass and my soldering is awful. Know it takes practice.
Very helpful video. I have so missed this art form and have not been able to do this art since 2007 due to a traumatic brain injury and having to learn how to use my body again . A month ago a neighbor asked me to teach him this art form so I am refreshing my memory. As I am researching the materials I am gobsmacked at the prices of everything including the solder. Do you have a source that has a sane price point for 60/40 solder here in the USA. I really have missed doing this it was so healing for me and I am excited to share my skill at doing this craft with someone else.
Thank you.
Thank you for your video. It’s so helpful! I am new to stained glass art. I am curious about the glass that you used. Did you paint the darker color on the yellow pansy?
I'm glad you found it helpful! I did paint the darker color on. I use pebeo vitrea 160 paint for details such as those
You are talented. Can you make a video on textured glass foiling ? Also for approximately 3mm thick glass what copper foil width would be best a 6mm or 8mm.
Thanks :)
I love the tips on adding copper wire for details. I hadn't seen that yet. Can you tell me what kind you use?
The kind I buy is rolled up and is 16 gauge pre tinned! I get mine from my local stained glass shop and unfortunately it doesnt have a brand on it.
What size copper wire do you use for details? Do you buy tinned copper wire? I love the way you solder! Seems slower and easier to control. Thank you so much!
I use 18g and 16g copper wire for most details. I have 14g as well, but that's better for making jump rings. I buy all of my pre-tinned wire in person and I dont know where they get theirs from! If I can find their source I can let everyone know :)
I really enjoyed your video. Here's a question. Can you make stained glass with copper? I mean is there such thing as copper solder?
I just discovered your videos (from tiktok lol), can you do a video on working with lead cane? Like stretching it and how to work with it? Maybe how to know if it's too old to use? (I bought stained glass supplies used and am not sure how old the came is!)
Absolutely! I actually just purchased a TON of different sizes and that was the next video I have planned! I've been slow with videos because of the shop update + moving, but it's on my to do list :)!
I'd love to know your thoughts on the soldering guns that look and perform like a glue gun, that feed the melted solder out in a stream when you pull the trigger. Do you feel like that's a tool that would be useful in this art form, particularly for someone who is just looking to shop for supplies to get started?
Hi there! I'm actually not familiar with that tool, although after looking it up I'm not sure it would be very good for stained glass. It looks like the tips on the solder gun are very small and potentially only work with small, circuit board specific solder. Just from the pictures I'm seeing, the solder being used for the solder gun is 1mm, whereas the solder I use is about 4mm. There are also some reviews on the product saying that the solder is very sparsely dispersed (ideal for circuit boards and super small machinery, no doubt!), which is not going to be good for stained glass since to get a nice bead you really need to be able to lay it on thick.
I would stick to a regular/stained glass specific soldering iron like I show in my videos :) The product you're referring to might look appealing since they're relatively cost friendly, but I'm doubtful you'd be able to get much use out of it for stained glass. Great question, I had no idea that tool even existed!
Great video, I have never seen copper wire used this way for wings and tail, will start doing that, Thanks! How did you get the black streaks in the flowers and for the bird's eye?
I'm so glad you found my video helpful! For the flowers and eye I used glass paint - specifically Pebeo Vitrea. It's a paint that is set by baking in a conventional oven at 325F for 40 minutes. Very affordable and easy to use!
The 75, 80 ... or the 7 or 8 on a phaser means the iron heats only 75% or 80% ... or ... 70 or 80 %.
Ex: if iron heats to 600 degrees, setting phaser on "7" will heat iron only 70% of 600 degrees, which is 420 degrees.
Great video. How strong is stained glass? Have you done any destructive testing?
Thank you! It's actually much tougher than you would think, although I have not purposefully tested its durability. I've had pieces fall from 7-10" before and not break, although each case is different. Art glass tends to be thicker than normal picture frame glass, and I believe the heavy metals that are added to give the specific colors (ex: pink glass is made with gold) also strengthen the glass.