Tools and materials

The patterns on this site are checked geometrically; cutting them well still depends on ordinary tools. Below is the toolkit referenced throughout the guides, linked through the Amazon Associates program. As an Amazon Associate this site earns from qualifying purchases. These are not paid placements and none of the specific products below have been tested by this site; they are the general categories of tool a stained glass beginner needs, described without claiming to have used any particular one.

• Glass cutter: scores the glass along the traced pattern line before breaking.
• Running pliers: apply even pressure along a score line to break it cleanly.
• Wet glass grinder: cleans up the break line and shapes the piece to its exact traced outline.
• Copper foil tape: wraps each piece edge before soldering, for the copper foil technique.
• Soldering iron: a wide chisel-tip iron, typically around 100 W, for running an even solder bead along foiled seams.
• Flux and flux brush: prepares the foiled or came seam so solder flows evenly.
• Lead came: grooved lead strip for the came technique, sized to the panel's cutting-margin pattern.

See the beginners guide for how each tool is actually used, step by step.