Glass Cutting. Tips for cutting Glass - Continued

Press the glasscutter into the glass at the far edge away from your body. Move the cutter along the glass, along the straight edge until you reach the point to where you are close to your body. When you are cutting glass, and you are cutting a piece the is more than two foot long, it is good to have someone hold the side that will fall to the ground. Or having something stable under the side that will fall so you are not left with a huge mess of broken glass on the floor to clean up.

If you are interested in cutting glass with a curve, just draw on the glass with a grease pencil. Cutting the line on the outside of the grease pencil so you are only left with trimming up the glass on the design that you want to be left with allows you to work with the glass a little easier. Trimming up the glass is just using your glass cutter to carefully follow the edge of the curves that you have drawn with more ease than if you were cutting the glass for the first time.

It is important to remember that you should be wearing gloves when cutting glass because the edges are very very sharp and you could cut your hands, even your arms badly if you were to brush up along the glass in the wrong way. You also might want to consider wearing safety goggles if you know that you are going to be working on this project by yourself and you need to lean into the glass to see what you are cutting. As with any type of construction and craft methods, something could go wrong and a piece of glass could fly off and into your eye causing damages.