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Visited a glass shop downtown and saw how they edge polish
Stopped by City Glass on 5th last Tuesday to pick up some shelf pieces and ended up watching their guy run a brand new edge polisher. He was knocking out perfectly rounded edges on 3/8" tempered in like 30 seconds per piece. Made me realize how much time I waste trying to smooth out glass shelving in my insets with sandpaper and a block. The polish came out so clean I could see my own face in the edge. Has anyone here ever subbed out glass work to a specialty shop instead of doing it in house?
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tessawebb2d ago
Yeah but @logansullivan I gotta push back a little. You're right that the end results are clean but it depends on what you're subbing. Specialty shops won't touch a one-off shelf piece most of the time. They want production runs or big commercial orders. The guy at City Glass probably did that as a favor cause I've called around and they quote you weird minimums or just say no. Also 3/8" tempered is different from the standard annealed float we all use for insets. The real time saver is getting a decent wet polisher for like $200. You don't get that mirror shine but it beats sanding by hand and you keep control of your schedule.
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