I'm a furniture maker, wood and metal worker, and I know almost nothing about working glass.
I'm designing a light fitting at the moment - a rectangular horizontal box with a shallow "pagoda" roof above it. It's to be wall mounted above a mirror. Construction is of foiled and soldered glass. I won't be making this myself, but having it made for me by a friend who normally does decorative hanging 2D panels.
I need to wall mount these two sections, which sounds like I need to solder brackets to the glasswork and have them attach to fittings that I screw to the wall. I'm thinking of copper tubes loosely telescoping inside each other - about 8mm diameter. One is soldered to the bracket, the other is soldered inside the glass - probably as two short 1" pieces. A small end disk on the brackets stops them sliding off, unless lifted over.
Any thoughts ? Is this a workable scheme ?
Is there any problem in soldering relatively heavy copper to foiled edges of glass ?
Thanks for any advice.
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