MrCheerful wrote:
wrote:
I'm about to make a foffee table from a sheet of glass. How does one
dull the sharp edges (without the use of expensive tools)? Oil stone,
perhaps?

Thanks

Frank

I trust it is safety glass?
You can just grind the edges with wet and dry paper, but be really
cautious of your hands. A glass shop will do the job really well,
cheaply and safely.

MrCheerful

MrCheerful,

Unfortunately you cannot cut or grind the edges of TEMPERED "safety glass"
AFTER it has been tempered.

The cutting and grinding of safety glass has to be done BEFORE tempering as
this process sets up stresses in the glass that are "held in" by a very thin
surface "skin" and once this skin is penetrated - the glass shatters into
hundreds of very small pieces.

There is an exception when using LAMINATED safety glass. This can be cut
and ground after manufacture but its use in furniture is limited where the
edge can be seen because of the plastic reinforcing interleave which
prevents the glass shattering into pieces.


Brian