Glass Scoring Hints
When scoring your glass try and remember some of these tips:
1. That screw on the cutting head it should be pointing up at you. As we teach a little saying in our classes that sometimes helps and that is, “In our classes we want you to be a screw up.”
2. Always at least try and always place your glass so that when you start your score you can complete the score easily.
3. Run your score on the “good side”, Look at your glass and run your score on the smoothest side. If you need the textured side to be the side showing remember to turn your pattern over before you place it on the smooth side.
4. Sometimes when you score it seems to get stuck because of the design of the glass, ease up slightly and and continue the score.
5. Do not run your cutter of the edge of the glass. You can damge the cutter head and chip the glass. Stop right before the edge of the glass. Remember you have scored the glass and it will run right through the are at the end.
6. Keep the area you are working in clean. As you cut your glass take a brush and sweep of the area you are working in on a regular basis. This will keep of all the little glass shards from sticking in your hand and from scratching your glass you just scored.
7. Don’t forget to make sure you dip your cutting head in a little oil each time you cut. It helps keep the wheel clean of debris and running smoothly. Some use kerosene, oil, essential oils etc.