Kat

i'm working on a guitar, too. i play (not very well but it's fun) so my dad used to pick up cheap guitars for me at garage sales all the time. a lot of them were damaged in some way or other so i'm using one of those. i'm not sure whether or not to do the sides or the back. i'm leaning toward just sticking to the front because of the amount of work and the amount of glass that would need.

Here's how I'm doing the stair risers. I carefully measured each one (they aren't exactly the same). I had Lowe's cut plexiglass to fit. Have to use the thicker plexiglass so that it won't flex much. I drilled a hole in each end of each rectangle. I then sat at the kitchen table and mosaiced each one, and grouted, and sealed. Then I installed using one screw at each end. So easy!

So, no, I am not down on my knees working. I knew I would not be physically able to do that. That's why I came up with this idea of using plexiglass panels. When gluing the tesserae, I took care to place the more bulky items near each end and put the thinner smoother pieces near the center where people would be walking so they wouldn't hit their heel on something as they came down the stairs. If you go to my blog and scroll to the bottom there is a place to click for older entries and if you go there you will see the beginnings of the project.