On Aug 18, 4:53*pm, Jules
wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:29:14 -0700, Simon wrote:
(I'm starting to regret not getting a coffee table with a protective glass
surface though, but so far finding someone who can cut the right kind of
glass to fit and round off the edges is proviving difficult)

Go to a place that does mirrors. They are often supplied with ground
and polished edges and
can be very large. I'm sure they could make a "mirror" without the
reflective backing.
Not sure if you need toughened glass though - maybe that's the issue.

Yeah, as we have kids I figured toughened/laminated glass was probably a
good idea - and somewhat-annoyingly I've even got a nice big sheet culled
from a patio door (I know it's laminated because I had two and broke one
of them ;-) but it needs specialist equipment* to cut it to the size I
need, let alone smoothing the edges off.

* Well, unless there's a blade for a circular saw or angle grinder that'll
do it - but due to the laminate of course the old score-and-crack routine
doesn't work.

It does, you just have to score it twice.

But even if I could cut it, I can't smooth edges myself.

I've not done it, but am told a regular hand grinding stone is fairly
quick.


NT