Beveled Glass
Beveled glass is usually made by taking one-quarter inch-thick clear glass and creating a one-inch bevel on one side around the entire periphery. These bevels act as prisms in the sunlight creating an interesting color diffraction which both highlights the glasswork and provides a spectrum of colors which would ordinarily be absent in clear float glass."Beveled glass" can be obtained as clusters which are arranged to create a specific design. These can vary from simple three or four piece designs, often used in top lights (commonly known as transoms) of windows and conservatories, to more complex combinations of many pieces, suitable for larger panels such as doors and side screens (known in the door industry as sidelites).
Beveled Glass has also been used with clear and colored textured glass to create designs. Textured glass is typically 1/8" thick and has a distinct visible texture. The combination of beveled glass is juxtaposed to the textured glass creating dramatic visual effects.
Note:
In the descriptions when I say "rubber resist cut...", I'm refering to the highly durable rubber resist that is adhered to the surface of the glass, and the parts the are to be sandblasted are carefully trimmed away or "weeded" out with a sharp exact-o blade. Resist helps control your sandblasting to create shapes, letters, and images in glass.
click for larger image Bevel Design 1 Designed by V. Fraser.
click for larger image Photographed in clients livingroom.
click for larger image Bevel Design 2 Designed by V. Fraser.
click for larger image Bevel Design 370" x 16"
Designed by V. Fraser.
click for larger image Zoomed in on bevel cluster
About Bevel Design 3
This custom designed window is leaded with a coniac bevel border. The center bevel cluster is surrounded by clear and light green English Muffle glass. Coniac bevels are no longer being produced, and therefor very hard to obtain and making this window even more precious.
This custom designed window is leaded with a coniac bevel border. The center bevel cluster is surrounded by clear and light green English Muffle glass. Coniac bevels are no longer being produced, and therefor very hard to obtain and making this window even more precious.
click for larger image Meyer Stone Cross Derived from a traditional design.
Coniac bevels with red sandblasted flashed glass centerpiece.
click for larger image Bevel Entry Door Window25" x 25"
Bevels with antique amber glass and etched centerpeices.
click for larger image Bevel Transom Leaded with bevels and textured clear glass
A description of flased glass
Flashed glass Red pot metal glass was often undesirably dark in colour and prohibitively expensive. The method developed to produce red glass was called flashing. In this procedure, a semi-molten cylinder of clear glass was dipped into a pot of red glass so that the red glass formed a thin coating. The laminated glass thus formed was cut, flattened and heat annealed.
Flashed glass Red pot metal glass was often undesirably dark in colour and prohibitively expensive. The method developed to produce red glass was called flashing. In this procedure, a semi-molten cylinder of clear glass was dipped into a pot of red glass so that the red glass formed a thin coating. The laminated glass thus formed was cut, flattened and heat annealed.