WARNING!
ONCE YOU LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PICTURES YOU MAY NEVER UN-SEE WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SHOW YOU. WHAT YOU MAY HAVE PREVIOUSLY CONSIDERED TO BE A VERY NICE LOOKING STAINED GLASS WINDOWS MAY BECOME FLAWED ONCE YOU SEE THIS VERY COMMON FAULT. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!
(Ignorance is bliss)
When I'm online looking at stained glass windows I stumble upon many border corners positioned incorrectly. It may not sound like much but once it's pointed out you always look for it. I was guilty of windows with the same problem when I first started making stained glass until it was pointed out to me. The sad thing is that this problem is INCREDIBLY easy to avoid.
Look at the two corner pieces in the picture below and to the left. They don't line up. The red lines on the right side of the picture highlight this flaw. The intersections don't match.
Below you can see that these corners align perfectly with the rest of the border and this is what you ultimately want- nice straight lines. It only takes an extra second (two at the most) to make each of the corners fit into perfectly into place (especially of you cut your borders with a strip cutter like all of our students do or have done for them.) So go ahead and go that extra mile, spare the extra 8 seconds to make a perfect window rather than something that's close but obviously flawed.
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