 | This is my first effort, made in the beginner's class. Mr. Owl
seemed appropriate since we have owls in the backyard at home from time to time -- and indeed this owl appears to be
sitting in the trees. |
 | Mr. Owl soon had a friend, albeit briefly just for this photo. The
owl on the right was the first item I made in my own shop at home, and was given as a gift to a cousin's fiancee as a
shower gift. |
 | This was my first attempt at making my own pattern. This
lighthouse is patterned after the one at Pointe au Baril, Ontario. |
 | By now, I was hooked. I finished the first owl in
class fairly quickly so I was encouraged to make another sun catcher. Being into rabbits, I
liked this pattern. Don't ask about the blue hip... It seemed like a good idea at the time. |
 | I found the pattern for this rabbit on the Internet. I
think it was intended to be smaller for a nightlight, but I made it as a suncatcher. |
 | Another pattern of my own design was this burgee, designed by
my uncle for our boats at the cottage. This suncatcher is in a window at the cottage. |
 | This is the burgee of the cottager's group, which was another
suncatcher pattern I made. |
 | I picked up a copy of Stained Glass News at my local
glass supplier and in that issue was the pattern for this neat little prairie style lamp shade. Wanting to try my hand at a
three-dimensional item, it seemed like just the item to make the attempt. |
 | Now I am really going... A living room lamp with an
illuminated lower section was in need of some TLC. The lower part originally had smoked gray plexiglas, which
looked nice when new. Now it's fogged and scratched. I thought a stained glass panel would be just the
thing to bring it back to life. Currently the lamp has two panels, the front panel shown and one on the right
side as you face the lamp. As of this writing another panel still needs to be constructed for the left side. |
 | As a railroad buff, as well as exhibiting my telegraph
items at local train shows, I wanted to make a small glass panel with a RR theme. The logo of the Erie-Lackawanna RR
was a perfect railroad subject to attempt because various members of my family have worked for either the Erie RR or the
EL RR or its successors, and it was an easy logo to reproduce in glass. |
 | Here's the panel mounted in a frame, attached to a wood box and
illuminated with an electric lamp, though my digital camera doesn't do the best job at times. The glass panel
box now graces my telegraph display table at the shows, and indeed in this
shot you can see the EL RR logo on the front of a G-guage EL engine I have. |
 | Here's a little lamp I designed from scratch. I 'stole' the
basic design of the little lamp shade above and put our cottage burgee on two panels and a little sailboat on the
other two. Not being able to find lamp bases of a relatively small height, I designed and built my own from
a piece of 2x2 and 2x6 lumber. A little stain and a little varnish and it doesn't look too bad. The
electrics in this lamp are also special: it is wired and lamped for the 12-volt solar battery system at the
cottage. I also made a pair of these with regular house electrics as Christmas
2003 presents for the cousins who share the cottage with us. |
 | Continuing with the lamp theme, I made a bunch of the little lamps
for Christmas 2003 presents for various friends and family, with shades appropriate to the recipient. This lamp
was for a good friend and coworker who is into music. The purple & white triangle on the other panels are a logo
and colors of the school at which we work.
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 | I made a pair of these lamps for a cousin and a friend who
both like the same purple & green color scheme. |
 | This lamp was a 40th birthday present for a very good friend who is
also a ham radio operator. I was able to work his call sign into the lamp shade and it seems to have worked out
very well -- even if it was 80 pieces of glass! |
 | Here's another ham radio call sign lamp I made for another good ham
friend. |
 | And here's a third ham radio call sign lamp I made for yet another good ham
friend. |
 | This is a lamp that I designed for my desk at work. Nothing particularly fancy,
but is simple in keeping with the Mission Style. |
 | This was an interesting project. The art teacher at the school where
I work did a unit on the Mission and Prairie style, specifically the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his inclusion of glass
lights in his house designs. After the art teacher showed the the students (high school) the basics of the style, I
was asked to talk about stained glass design and how glass works and things to keep in mind when designing with glass.
The students were then to design on paper stained glass lights that incorporate the Mission/Prairie/FLW
aspects. The art teacher selected the design that exhibited the best use of what the kids learned and I executed
that design in glass.
I cut and ground the glass pieces, but the art teacher and the student did the foiling and I then soldered the finished
work and put the zinc frame on it and applied the patina. The completed panel was given to the student who
designed it. |
