Glass shelves, tables, kitchen boards are not only beautiful, but also practical. However, to make this shelf or table, you need to attach the glass to the rest of the parts using self-tapping screws. Not every person is able to properly make holes in a transparent surface without damaging the glass itself.
Watch our video on how to drill glass in home conditions and try to decorate your home with original glass shelves.
To make holes in the glass, we need:
- a special drill, we will use a crown with diamond spraying with a diameter of 8 millimeters;
- a drill or a screwdriver;
- glass;
- glass blank;
- adhesive tape;
- masking tape;
- a container of water to cool the surface we wake to thaw.
We insert the drill into the drill and clamp it well there, so that the drill does not hang during drilling, but is exactly in the center.
Before proceeding with the drilling of our main element, we must first prepare our workpiece. To do this, we attach tape to one side of it, it is needed for when we drill a hole in the glass, small fragments did not fly off or lay on the table, but stuck to the tape.
The place we are going to drill is wetted with water. This is necessary in order to cool the surface of the glass and the drill itself.
It is impossible to immediately take and drill a hole in the glass, the drill will crawl on the surface. For this, we need a template so that by inserting a drill into it, we can calmly drill a hole in the material we need.
In order not to damage the table, put a small piece of cardboard or a regular board.
All the workpiece is ready, remove the tape and wipe with a damp cloth.
Now you can start drilling through the main glass blank.
We stick the workpiece to the place where we will drill the hole and fix it with masking tape so that it does not go.
Watering the workpiece.
The workpiece can be removed when the drill bit snaps firmly into the main glass and does not slip to the side.
It is better to drill glass from two parties.For the second side, we also need a template to go deep a few mm inward.
Then we remove all excess from the glass with a cloth so that there is no dirt and smudges.
And here we are drill a glass bottle.