Another rabbit hole. Stained glass

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This forums resource is awesome. Thanks to @WillAdams 's encyclopedic libraries services this thread looked pretty good.

Stained glass hearts in a wood frame

My wife wanted to know if the Shapeoko could cut glass, which was all the encouragement I needed to potentially make a huge mess. I am happy to say that with a bit of prep work a Shapeoko 3 has no problem cutting glass. The first step was making a water bath to lubricate/cool the cutter while milling the glass (and also capture the glass dust). I made a quick design in OpenSCAD for the good sized bath (10" x 7") I could fit on our 3D printer, and 38 hours printing was done. It leaked (very s…

And a glass cutter @DrPete seemed to validate the process with additional great insights.

Thanks everyone !