Bought this a couple weeks back but I haven't really been home much to watch it. Finally checked it out this morning. I haven't done a Tiffany lamp yet but it looked really thorough and impressive. I was happy that he didn't go over a bunch of beginner stuff that I already know. There were several things that surpised me a little.
First he uses three sizes of copper tape, 3/16" and the one on either side, depending on the thickness of the glass. I just figured that you chose one size for a lamp and that's what you went with.
Second, I was surprised that he didn't mark around the pattern piece onto the glass. He just held the pattern piece onto the glass and cut around it.
Third was a real epiphany for me. He used Kokomo glass and he showed the full sheets before he started cutting them. I was stunned. At least one of them was a blotchy horrible mess of red and green and white and brown. I thought it ugly. But when he laid out the patterns on the glass and cut it and pieced it together, I saw how the blending of the several colors in the one sheet gave the design depth and complexity. I realized that my idea of stained glass work was a childish coloring book approach with solid pink for the flowers, green for the leaves, and sky blue.
Michael