My dad a Polish peasant farmer born in 1920 had an old diamond glass cutter he got from his dad so it must be at least 120 yrs old or older. I still use it almost daily and it still cuts like it was new. The tiny diamond 💎 is very small and is the best glass cutter I have used and has lasted out all the modern glass cutters I have used. Made in Poland and I'm third generation using it and will hand it down to my son and hopefully he will hand it down to his son and sons son son.
Hi Roger ... I learned a lot from you about not only glass, but vintage glass, and what to look for when anaylising it's potential to recover,. So useful and not necessarily "common sense" ... thanks so much for sharing your experience and talent for dealing with like circumstances. Cheers my friend ... dave
Absolutely brilliant. So good to hear/see how it’s done by a really skilled professional who has the ability to pass on years of experience in an easy to follow way. Thank you! Regards, Syd Fathers
Thank you! I wasn't aware of cutting tempered glass. Was planning to re purpose storm door glass for display case shelves. Guess I'll leave it to the pros.
Spent may days doing this for customers who adamantly wanted to keep their old sash. We penetrating epoxied wood styles and rails. We rebuilt muntins with epoxy and 2 part wood fillers. The time and materials would often cost way more than a new sash. Cutting desired thready old glass was a crap shoot. Priming putty lands is important.
Thanks. I've been battling with old glass, and I did not realise that it has different characteristics than new glass. I'll try some new glass to see if it is my technique or the glass. 😊
7:18 and I’m watching this video to learn how to cut glass over 100yrs old to salvage for smaller windows on the job 😅 I know while cleaning and glazing century old glass; Be very careful where and how you put pressure on it. All the bubbles and small hairline cracks will stretch from side to side very easily on some of them 🤦🏻♂️ (learned the hard way)
And do not by any means necessary believe that you’ll be able to salvage old glass either. Smaller cuts, about 75%of those break good after scouring. Long breaks.. big pieces..😅 I’m at like 25% right now. Even took a 4x3 pane to a glass company to see if they could cut down for me. No luck. Maybe 🤔 if cut with water (high pressure) instead it would be a better outcome🤷🏻♂️ Good luck!
Cutting old glass is a nightmare. I removed an entry door from an old golf club that had been in the West Australian sun for decades. The top lites were half inch thick. It was like trying to cut concrete !!! If you can get a Fletcher cutter, buy it, they're the best, Red Devils are second best.
So the window frame you were holding looked just like the one I'm looking to put some glass in. My father in law was one of those dodgy DIY'ers that painted most of the windows in the house shut over the years and he didn't care personally bacause he likes the heat so opening a window wasn't a concern for him 🤦♂ But since I'm now doing some minor renovations and making these windows functional again is part of that task, I have to replace the glass I cracked trying to pry one open...
Same as cutting regular window glass, provided it is not tempered (will not work at all) or laminated. If laminated glass, you need to score both sides, lightly fracture on the score, then cut the laminate with a razor blade. Not as easy as it sounds........
Thanks for just enough stuff to get the job done and very little BS! BTW I noticed that you hold the glass cutter at a 60 degree angle...other videos show it held upside down...does it matter?
No, same process. To smooth the edges, there are rubbing bricks made for that purpose. You can also use a silicon carbide abrasive belt on a belt sander, but be CAREFUL!
When measuring a 12" piece do you mark the 12" line and put the wheel on the line then adjust the straightedge to accommodate for the wheel to cutter edge?
do you have a video that shows how to clean up a piece that didn't break right and may have like, a hump left over from the break? I assume you have to grind it down, but I wasn't sure. I just know when I continue to try to score it and re-break it, it Never goes right lol
@@rogersshop well im using my pliers, what i feel probably goes bac is my scoring of the glass, so sometimes i will use my pliers, run the score line but will have a nub or hump where it didnt run clean
The ball at the end is used to strike the score on heavy glass to initiate the break (not for a novice!), The notches on the head are used to initiate the break on small width scores. The different sizes of the notches are for different thickness glass (also not for the novice)
2 things wrong, pressing too hard and wiping edge with glove but the other stuff you showed was good. Passing on years of knowledge is great when that knowledge is correct but blind leading the blind on some stuff made my tutor laugh.
Scoring wheel is not sliding. It rotates. Maybe you can't hear it, but I can. Light oil makes a scoring wheel last a lot longer and some tools actually have an oil tank built in.
not a dame thing to do with old glass you are edge running to hard and hitting the glass with the cutter frame because you are pushing to hard when you come off the glass ENOUGH SEEN I could teach you how to cut the right way
