If you’re into the “scary sharp” method you might be interested…
Yesterday I was getting some art supplies for my daughter at Michaels (a craft/art supply chain) and noticed they had several shapes & sizes of 3/8″ thick plate glass with nice finished edges. Meant for tabletops, perhaps? There weren’t any long, narrow pieces there but a 18 X 36 (?) piece was priced $29.99. I paid about half that much for a single piece 10 X 12 to use as a lapping plate at work, so their price seems OK. (No doubt you’d get a better price direct from a glass dealer if you have one near you)
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"No doubt you'd get a better price direct from a glass dealer if you have one near you...." I dunno, that price sounds very good to me. I've had glass cut and shaped for display cases over the years, and it's quite expensive when you have the edges finished/sanded. Good find!
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
MACH70,
I dunno. That sounds awfully high to me.
I got a piece of tempered 3/8" glass, about ten or eleven inches wide and about twenty inches long for (IIRC) five dollars.
I went to a window repair shop and asked if they had any scraps. I was shown a barrel full of various kinds of glass in lots of shapes and sizes. I told them what I was looking for; the fellow helping me rummaged around in the barrel and found the piece for me. They even ground the edges nice and smooth--without me asking.
Alan
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