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2. How do you modify the frame to hold each piece of glass in place? Adhesive? Tin? some sort of pliable metal?
You scratch a line with something harder than glass (not all steels are) and then you snap along it. It takes a lot of hope and desperation to get it right, and it doesn't always go your way.
If it's a small piece of glass you need removed you can sand it off or grind it away.
Make sure you're not using tempered glass. That stuff will just shatter into a thousand pieces when it is scratched enough.
> how to hold it together
Lead. The secret is lead. It's soft enough that it will bend to conform to the glass, but solid enough it will hold its shape. You can also melt drops of it to fill in cracks, or to weld corners together.
I believe they extrude or shape lead into H-shapes so that the glass can fit inside.
From the videos I've seen the artist lays out how they want the piece to look, then they form the lead structure to hold the glass in place, then they assemble it piece by piece, welding lead pieces together as needed with a flame. If you don't have a flame you can use a hot metal poker. Lead has a really low melting point.