Ouliana PanovaInterview
Student engineer, stained glass artist
Adapted from Ouliana Panova's interview on Uses This, published 16 December 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I really like my Fletcher running pliers - I feel that they're the best way to snap glass, with great control over the crack propagation (glass isn't really "cut", it's broken along a line).
The initial crack line is traced with just a regular, run-of-the-mill oil glass cutter.
I grind all the glass pieces with a Diamond Star Gastar glas grinder.
I like folding the corners of the copper foil with this metal tool for cuticle care - weirdly enough, it's the best shape for this very specific application.