Cutting Glass with Scissors.

• Britt
  April 10th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

  So far as I know, cutting glass actually sharpens scissors. I cut the necks of glass bottles with my sewing scissors in-between sharpenings.

• Aramax
  April 10th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

  I wouldn’t try it. I dont like glass cut or getting glass shards in my skin.

• JRM
  April 10th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

  The water also seeps into the crack you are generating and causes it to propagate more easily. It is usually recommended to wet glass even when cutting it “conventionally”.

• danny
  April 10th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

  i think he/she just switched out the sheet of glass with plastic when they put it in the water

• zoomboy
  April 10th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

  what happens when he tries to drain the water (a sink full of broken glass and all).

• Sean
  April 10th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

  But is it cutting straight and clean?

• Adam
  April 10th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

  There will be no satisfactory answer till someone tries it.

• Mark
  April 10th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

  All my year of scoring, tapping and grinding stained glass were wasted! If only i have known that a bucket of water was the key.
  The glass was likely scored with a diamond wheel first and the scissors are just breaking along the score lines.

• artbot
  April 10th, 2007 at 4:06 pm

  What is it with all these douchebags who don’t know how to make a simple video? This doesn’t show anything. I wanna see the finished cut - up close! It takes half the frickin vid to establish that, yes, it’s glass! I think he just breaking it off with the scissors underwater to avoid the shrapnel.

• Moon
  April 10th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

  I’m with you, Mark. All those years of scoring, tapping and crunching glass wasted!

  If only I’d known!

  /If this works, I’ll buy everybody a beer. EVERYBODY!

• frenki
  April 10th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

  http://www.spectrumglass.com/Library/ScoreArticles/NoFishStory.html

• Jennifer Emick
  April 10th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

  This does work, I remember seeing this done in my seventh grade science class. It’s just a novelty, though- you can’t get any precision.

• John
  April 10th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

  I belive this really only works with some kind of safety glass.

• Adam
  April 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm

  Will one of you please just try it? He says in the comments on youtube to use thin glass like from a frame. Go go go!
  btw complaining about online video quality is like complaining about the weather.

• Elliot
  April 10th, 2007 at 10:17 pm

  I just tried it with the glass from a picture frame…

  It just broke. Honestly, I pressed on the scissors and it snapped it, not cut, snapped.

  So, it doesn’t work with all glass obviously.

• billy
  April 11th, 2007 at 3:52 am

  in my world all glass gets cut nicely with scissors under water.

• Jason
  April 11th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

  In my world, I get to play strip backgammon with supermodels.

• Steve
  April 11th, 2007 at 4:25 pm

  Or, the water hid the glass pane when he did a switch in the water

• jonno
  April 11th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

  i tried it and my sink exploded, hollywood action movie style!

• PZR
  April 12th, 2007 at 11:34 am

  Even if it does work, how does one pick up the shards of glass at the bottom of the sink or bucket without slicing off a fingertip? I want to see THAT video.

• Paul
  April 18th, 2007 at 1:52 am

  Don’t try this at home!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBMtbVonAIg

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