"Alun Saunders" wrote in message
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Dan Klima wrote:
I have turned a number of wine and champagne glasses. Like Arch, I buy
wine
glasses with the bowls that I like and end up breaking the stems just
below
the bowl. I use a triangular metal file and score the line where I want
the
break to be. Then I tap (sometimes rather briskly) that scored line on
the
edge of something metal (like my lathe bed) and hope for the best -
which
usually happens. I fit the wooden stem to that nub of the glass - yup,
each
one is different as far as the glass goes so its a lot of trial and
hopefully not too much error. I use epoxy for the binding agent and
have
had quite a bit of luck with that.

Do you try to clean up the end of the broken stem at all, say, by
grinding any sharp points or edges off or do you just leave it rough?

--
Alun Saunders


Check on stained glass places that offer lessons. They frequently will give
you access to their equipment if no classes are in session for a few bucks
per hour. Here in San Antonio it's about $8/hr. They'll probably have a saw
that you can use to cut the stem off with and a grinder to take the sharp
edges off. The wife used the stems in the past to make stained glass wands
.... I knew I should have kept the bowl!!!!!

Fredman