RON'S STAINED GLASS
In 2006 I was working on a gazebo area in the back yard with a rock retaining wall and rock floor.When I decided to make a stained glass ceiling for the gazebo. I picked out a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope book of a Ring Nebula that is on the front cover and page 32 "Images Of Star Death" that I thought would work well with a 12' - 6 side ceiling. This was my first try at stained glass and I was told that it might be to much to tackle on a first try but I went ahead and ordered approximately 150 square feet of glass.The green glass ball in the middle is a Japanese fish net float that had a heavy jute covering, from the 50's, that had hung on my mothers back porch for about 20 years. It took quite awhile for the glass order to get here so I did a full size lay out of the frame on the shop floor and bought the 3", 1 1/2" and 1" square steel tubing needed. Started with the 3" post as I was pouring the concrete floor and wal...