Jim, I purchased the "ribbon lighting" for the inside of two kitchen cabinets with glass fronts. I have it partially hooked up and I can see that it will work well and will not be seen when I place it around the inside edge of the cabinet opening. I don't know about other commercial options, but I think your idea would work just fine. I would guess that other commercial options would also be more expensive than the method you are thinking of using. Placing the ribbon on conduit so you could adjust the aim by moving the conduit seems like a very good idea to me, and I assume that you plan on placing the conduit on either side of the 36" wide stained glass, behind the "frame" that will be built so that you do not see the beams of LED light unless you are at an extreme angle to the stained glass. The question is whether you want it to be dimmable or not. Sounds like you are going to get the super bright ribbon, which is probably what you need for stained glass. If the light ended up being too bright, the ability to dim would solve this issue. However, being able to dim the light will cost you more (because dimmable transformers cost more and you need to add the cost of the dimmer), but give you more flexibility in how the stained glass looks. If you decide to dim, be careful to find a dimmer that mates perfectly with your transformer and lights so that you do not get any flickering, like I have experienced with my project. Good luck and let everyone know (post photo) of how it turns out.

Thanks ladies! Val, I've book marked that page. Interesting thing -- I know how to hand sew Victorian lampshades and I figure I could teach it too, just don't know if I like doing it all that much. It's hard on arthritic hands. It could be interesting to teach people to do small GG windows. Decals would be a snap. However, to teach it here I need a huge piece of furniture moved downstairs and would need to buy a new DR table... mine is a small round antique with no leaves. Still, it sounds like fun if I ever get this house in shape, and that is happening. Tracey, I once taught guitar at a local community college, so you're right that is an idea. Your friend is clever to be getting $ from two sources, both the school and cookbook sales. Hmmm... makes me think... Well, my son came over, finally. YAY! I've been unable to start the lawn mower. I took it to the shop and they said it needs a new starter -- which I got for it last year. My son mowed my back yard (YAY). He can pull the rope and start it; I seldom can. Then he said he thinks the outlet I plugged it into was tripped off. We'll see... he wasn't sure. But he messed with it. Anyway the good news is he got the dandelions before they went to seed, something I've been trying to do with no success. Then he put the bird room closet door back on it's track. It was the back door and I couldn't fix it myself. Then he climbed to my roof and stapled up my sagged down rope light that looks so awful laying there every night when it automatically comes on. Then he took down my old curtain rods and was arguing with me about how to put up the new ones when he decided he had to leave for his dinner appointment with a group of friends. So what he didn't do is affix the new GG window -- though he did take a good look at it and he's formulating a plan for how to do it. He also didn't take down my swag there, or re-do the trim around the window. And he didn't end up helping me get the drapery rods up. But maybe I can do those myself after all. Next time for the GG window. He did say upon seeing the window in person for the first time that my photos of it absolutely don't do it justice (I agree). He said I should try taking pictures at dusk. Now, about teaching classes, I'd have to decide if the best money was in teaching classes or in doing commissioned work, wouldn't I? Because if I teach it you can bet someone is going to get out there and do that commissioned work. The thing is, if I want to do the commissioned work, how should I advertise it? Most folks have no idea what this craft even is, let alone what can be done with it. Another question is how to price the work? This window took me an unbelievable number of hours. I can see this streamlining over time, and especially as I worked out some designs to offer.

SHADES! I thoroughly enjoyed all 50 pics...twice!!! You are the QUEEN of Tables!!! And Louise> Hubba Hubba!! Welocome Todd! A couple of comments, GOG that I do is usually with silicone, but silicone looks better depending on what glass you will use. colored, textured glass types look okay but clear or sometimes pale colored glass or non textured glass can show the silicone, or perhaps I just don't take the time to smooth it out as good as I can. Also I too do not recomment more than 1inch grout lines, but a suggestion might be to add black glass in those areas, solid black, to off set the width of the grout. AND my last suggestion is to go to a Tile Shop to get the grout as box stores do not have true black and also have a bigger selection of colored grout. It sounds like you will be opening up a whole new window(lol)for yourself with trying GOG! And just so you know, we LUV pics of work in projects! Hope you stick around, the more the merrier! Oh, and another idea that I'm toying with is to go to a glass store and ask what they use to glue glass to glass as they have some good stuff, but it boils down to price and what I'm willing to spend, and how complicated it is. Right now I cut open a small tube of silicone and gloop away and am happy with that...

Hi there, I installed this metal rail and I think I made a mistake. It has to be replaced because it’s too short but now that I see it, I’m wondering if I should switch to a glass rail. or switch to a rail with no center post, like this one? Unfortunately I already have 12 holes in the floor so a 3rd option is to keep the 3 floor plates and to remove the center post in the new design. This would allow the b rail to be closer to the ground. Sorta like this; since this rail is shorter than code requirements, I still have option to change my mind for the next day or so I would love to have any feednack that you have... also, If you like the rail as is, please let me know ASAP. this is also an option! Thanks!!