lets make some mirrors for the minibar
here is the mirror for the topshelf. I already cut that in the right shape, only the holes is what i wanna show in detail because thats very hard to do!
if you wanna do something with a curve, first cut the actual cut you wanna make (RED). If you make a corner like on the pic below, make extra cuts (BLUE) There alot of tension in a mirror, specially when you break it. A cut is the weakest place, so it will break there. If you have a corner in the cut, you need an extra cut because the force wants to go further in a straight line, the cut made the corner so it will break the mirror, not the cut......unless you have an extra cut, that way in force can go on to the edge of the mirror
first make a cirkel, smaller then the one you actually want!
then cut it like this, the more lines the better
add some more :biggrin:
this is a trick. Mirror is actually a plate of glass with some sort of foil on the back and then a protectionlayer. The trick is to sand down the middle part of the cirkel because later on this layer will hold the small pieces of glass together, and we dont want that.
start tapping against the bottom in the middle of the cirkel. Very gently, a little bit too hard and the whole thing will break. If you do this good it will be harder and harder to look through, the glass will start to look like icecubes, kinda white.
suddenly you will be through it