Top 10 Tips for Drilling Sea Glass - mudlarking for our beachcombing craft sun catcher

How to Drill Sea Glass, Sea Pottery and Shells 101, plus we show you how to make a suncatcher from your finds.NEW UPDATEd VIDEO ON DRILLING SEAGLASS - link below

NEW: beginner to expert guide to drilling sea glass
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00:00 We're on a beach near Dundee!
00:30 Hunt for craft materials
01:50 An unexpected Jar
02:50 A huge blue piece of glass
03:09 Coastal Views and... I've never seen so many swans!
03:31 Our haul of shells and drift wood
04:44 Drilling Tutorial (Nicole's Top Ten Tips!!)
05:20 What you will need to drill
05:40 How to Drill Glass, Pottery and Shells
08:40 Lets make a suncatcher/mobile
13:44 The finished suncatcher

Its time to get drilling sea glass, pottery, and shells! A few weeks ago, when making the earrings for our first giveaway (congratulations again, Juliet!), Nicole asked if there was any interest in a glass drilling demonstration/tutorial. Thanks so much to everyone who expressed interest in seeing that – today, Nicole will show you how she drills glass, pottery and shells with a handheld rotary tool, and gives you her top 10 tips to help anyone trying this for themselves. First tip – practice on pieces you are not very fond of because its very easy to break glass while drilling, and, even with experience, some pieces will break because of stresses in the glass that you just can’t see or predict.

We start our journey a few miles up the road from Dundee, where we go on a mission to find craft materials for today’s project! We go hunting for drift wood, pottery, and, sea shells, that Nicole will use to demonstrate drilling, before going on to make a sun-catcher/mobile. While collecting our craft materials, we make a few unexpected finds – a really nice, large piece of blue glass, a clay bottle bottom… All in all a very nice day on the Fife coast!

Back home, Nicole takes you through the steps of drilling sea glass, and shows you how you can make a sun-catcher – to speed things up, we make a four stranded mobile, but, the sky is the limit – you could scale this up any way you like and end up with an incredible coastal chandelier!!

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