By Robert
I’m working with Mark T. to create the studio door that Neile envisions – it’ll consist of a steel framework that mimics the dimensions of the aluminum curtain wall that will hold the stained glass panels at Makers Mark. I’ve never worked with steel before and don’t know how to weld, but Mark is big thinker and knows this type of stuff… he’s spent a lot of time building mountain bike and snowboard park features at our local mountain, which has a creek (no, he didn’t build the awesome (?) loop-de-loop water slide!). We made a prototype of one square for the door in 1” angle steel. To check for fit of the stained glass, I asked Carissa to mock up a panel using the zinc lengths that ultimately form the exterior edge of each square. For ease of testing, she made the panel a cardboard (rather than glass) interior. For verisimilitude, she added the butterfly, and I added some tupperware so that we wouldn’t damage any depression glass.