[TheForge] Glass and Steel

[Woolley]

Me too.

Peter Hirst wrote:
> The table we had held the glass in an angle iron frame, enclosing the 
> edges. That's how I would support a 1/4 inch plate as well
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>> I've used 1/2" glass for the tops of coffee tables, end tables. With 
>> the edges exposed, I think it looks a whole lot better than 1/4".  
>> I'd be more inclined to use it for shelving or narrow table tops like 
>> a sofa table. Or planters and such.
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>> Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>> What's entertaining about tempered glass sheets is how far you can 
>>> bend them with apparent impunity...pf
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>>> Peter Hirst wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have experience with glass table tops?  I have 
>>>> available to me a virtually unlimited supply of 1/4  glass up to 
>>>> almost 48 x 96, both tempered and plate.  I am looking for 
>>>> technical information on using such glass for table tops.   Quarter 
>>>> inch seems thin to me, but a couple of things have encouraged me.  
>>>> First, when I was a kid, we had a porch dining table of (machine) 
>>>> forged iron with a glass 1/4" top that was supported only at its 
>>>> edge.  This was about 36 x72.  Second, a friend of mine has a dozen 
>>>> or so 48x 96 panels 3/16 thick that he removed from a skylight 
>>>> application, the strength of which he demonstrated to me by walking 
>>>> across a single sheet supported only at its long edges.  Of course, 
>>>> the thing is tempered, so you tap it with a hammer and it explodes 
>>>> into a pile of marbles, but the initial strength is impressive. I 
>>>> have found some 1/4 inch thick table tops online up to 48" diameter 
>>>> rounds, but not with enough techinical information to give me confide
>>> nce to build a table for sale from such material.  Anyone out there 
>>> into incorporating glass in furniture?
>>>>
>>>> Peter Hirst
>>>> Keziah's Forge
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