BLDesigns

The sidelight panel will be almost 6' tall and 1' wide. We will use 1" bevels and a pale color waterglass background. The whole door will be done in lead and then 'sandwiched' between tempered glass. We will use copper wire to run vertically to give support to the door.

I tried drawing a hawk and a bald eagle, but they seemed too small for the window - they are big birds and to have a tiny picture of them seemed odd. The dragonfly on the other hand would look good - and we could use that cool irridized/opalescent textured glass.

I redrew the dragonfly so it overlapped the circle and had three blades of grass. This looks better - more delicate. Now it is off to the glass store and pick out the glass we want to use!

As of 5-24-02, I have all the zinc and rebar border cut, the pattern drawn out, all the pieces cut and have begun on the dragonfly part. This section will be copper foiled. Below are pictures of the dragonfly - glass is cut and edges foiled. The one on the left is what the glass looks like with light shining from the front and the one on the right is on a light table - with light coming through it. The next step is to solder this section then start in on the leading part. Some of the glass for the transom is already cut.

I had to take three photos and 'paste' them together to get the whole window.
It is a little'warped', but that is the photo, not the window. The lines you see underneath the glass are just guide lines. I flipped the window over to solder the back - that is the side you are looking at now. It is still silver/lead color - it has not been patina'd yet.

As of July 3, I have completed the cutting of the glass, the leading and soldering of the transom. I still have to attach the rebar and of course putty, patina and polish, but I will do this last stage when all three panels are done. I start on the sidelights next. Below I have cut the glass and am assembling it with lead.

As of 7/17, I have all the glass cut for both sidelights and am beginning to assemble the first one.

As of 8/1, I have completed all the glass and lead for the two sidelights. The next step is to putty, patina and clean the windows.

As of August 31, 2002 the windows have been installed - I am DONE!! Of course, there were delays - an extra week sending the windows to Portland, another week because the windows were 1/4" too big and the carpenters had to do a little routing. But they are now installed and look much better than these pictures.