Puzzle pieces

Today I unwrapped the backer glass, put it in place over the pattern on my work table, and started cutting pieces of glass from the far right side of the pattern.

Backer glass laid out over the pattern
The backer glass is thick and you can see the layer of laminate
The medium gray glass and some of the pattern for it

I don’t have a piece of medium gray glass that is long enough to make some of the pieces of the pattern. I will likely deal with that by abutting two pieces of the glass as closely as possible.

It would take three pieces from this glass sheet to make it long enough for the pattern piece
Medium gray on the left, light gray on the right

I will be cutting the glass from only the white parts of the pattern (the orange cutting lines will be removed) so there will be a slight space between the pieces.

A few of the light gray pieces cut and set in place

Something I didn’t anticipate and have yet to encounter before today is that some of my art glass really is not flat. That will likely cause bubbles in the resin underneath the pieces even if I glue them in place. A thicker layer of glue really isn’t good (to fill in the gap) because it can be visible from the back side of the piece, so I will have to think about this issue.

This piece of glass is seriously NOT flat

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