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A friend is making stained glass garden stakes for a fundraiser for our local charter school. She needs a stake "frame" similar to this one, but less ornate and inexpensive. It doesn't have to go around the whole piece. (It sounds like she doesn't need the stake part; just the frame.)
A black metal frame either square that the glass logo hangs from, or rounded on the bottom that the piece sits in.
Does anyone know where to find them? I would think she will need at least a few dozen.
I checked on google and they are expensive...maybe she can get a wrought iron shop to make them for her and I'm sure that they would be cheaper than 30+ dollars on the net for one. If she asked for the same circle or design, they may give her a discount. I don't even know if they do this, but the thought came to me when I first read your post.
Good luck and it will be interesting to hear where these are made.
How about those reflector stakes they sell and Home depot for marking the edge of your driveway. They are aluminum and you could simply remove the reflector and mosaic the circle underneath.
Is it possible for her to just frame the stained glass in zinc and solder the zinc to the stake part that goes into the ground? The zinc can be patinaed black or even spray painted black. She wouldn't be able to curve the zinc unless she has some type of tool that can do that, but she definitely could use it for straight edges.
Let me know if you have any questions about using zinc.
