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Spider: when I was doing stained glass, I set up a work-board on the top of our old chest freezer in the garage. When we needed to get into the freezer, we were able to move the board off the top and not disturb the piece I was working on.
I had never heard about tumblers before. I read on one of your posts that you use one but just thought that you were using the usual clothes tumble drier.
I am going mad trying to work out how to cut curved bits of glass for mosaic. I have a magazine with a project for a table top with flowers in it. The flowers have curved shapes and half moon shapes.
I tried doing them with the nippers but the are too irregular and have dents. I CAN"T do curved shapes and it is driving me mad!!!
If I could hook up my clothes dryer to tumble glass, I would...it would give me a NICE BIG batch...LOL!
I'm no expert in glass, but as I recall, it took me a while to learn to take really teensy weensy pieces off the edges to get curved edges. If you're using the whole jaw of the pliers, or even half, that may be too much for the size of your curve. I learned to just use the wee corner of the jaw. It seemed like I was chipping at it, rather than cutting. It always took forever to get the right shape, but eventually it turned out.
Don't get frustrated, though---it's just like any other new craft, if you keep at it you'll get it sooner or later!!!
You might send a D-Mail to balvenie. I know he's an expert in stained glass (and many other creative things), and he may be able to give you some better advice or maybe suggest some online resources you could review.
