Leadlight Cabinet - curved door repair

Scary. As I pulled out the windows, the putty and lead were well past its use by date. All the glass pieces were very loose and the putty brittle. So I had decided along the way to relead all panels.

First taking windows out complete was tricky and nerve wracking with a few smashing to the ground.

Then pulling the lead apart to save the glass as the glass was very thin, 2mm...I haven't used this before...Cleaning the glass was also a tricky job as I didn't want to smash the pieces...However I managed to chip the putty off enough to be reusable...

Putting all pieces in place without a pattern after many photos was easier than I thought. Nerve wracking session over...phew . I managed to replace a couple of same size pieces from the other window panel, to make a whole panel...before sourcing my new glass...

Finally found some, I used and recycled a couple of photoframes, that I had stored away to use one day...(I have lots of treasures everywhere :) )

Off to buy new lead and to start over.

There you go...ALL ready to solder, BUT I'm not even half way yet.

The flat panel is very easy, (which I haven't soldered as yet)

The next steps to do are:

• to solder, then wash
• the messy part of puttying, and again another wash
• AND a polish and yet again another wash
• Finally Installation...the trickiest of all, especially the curved ones...

Keep tuned in for the second part of this post...(sorry will have to keep you in suspense for a bit). I will update and add a link here when done...

Hopefully I will have this finished in time for Christmas this year 2013...lol...

Thanks for looking, leave a comment if you wish. Or email me here for any queries.

Cheers Tamsin Adams
Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator and lover of all crafty things - today is leadlight...