How To Cut Glass Sheet

Smooth the edges with fine sandpaper or a sharpening stone.

How to cut glass sheet.

Place your two pointer fingers on the underside of the glass one of each side of the score. Score the glass with a glass cutter using a. Use the head of the glass cutter to elevate the glass. Put your two thumbs on the top of the glass one on each side of the score and just break it open like you would break a chocolate bar.

Set up the acrylic glass on 2 beams so that you can cut through it with the jigsaw. Use a framing square. Start with a clean dry piece of glass and use a sharp tool to lightly score the line you want to cut. Hold the sheet of glass in your hands and carefully apply minor pressure from your wrists to break the glass along the score.

Push the jigsaw from the outer edge towards your body along the line you made so you can constantly keep your eye on the blade and the line. Dip a glass cutter into oil and grasp it like a pencil then carefully pull the cutter along the mark you made to score the glass. If it doesn t break through completely to the other side apply more pressure and lightly twist your hands to encourage the split. Lay the glass on a clean flat layered surface.

Lay the sheet on a flat surface and using a yardstick and a permanent marker or a grease marker measure and draw the line you wish to cut. Apply pressure and break it apart as if you were opening the spine of a book. Anyone can do this. Heat the wire until it s red hot.

This video shows how to cut glass and mirrors with a manual hand held glass cutter. Next hold the yardstick to the marked line and run. Make sure your wire is longer than the cut with the ends shaped into loops. For example to cut a 10 inch wide piece of glass measure 9 7 8 inches and then make a mark.

To compensate for the offset subtract 1 8 inch from the desired measurement. Start by resting the wheel of the cutter just off of the glass on the far side of the sheet then draw it toward you while applying consistent downward pressure as you pull the cutter across the surface. Thoroughly clean the glass you intent to cut. Put wood through the loops and tighten to use as handles.

Measure the glass to the required dimensions.