so today we're in the basement and I cleaned up my workshop table because my friend Bob here is an expert on glass he's a glazier he does this for a living and my windows are in really really bad shape um so he was so nice to come here and show us how to do this because I've tried this and I've screwed it up so really badly actually I bought this thing that's called a putty chaser and you put a drill out of any garden and it destroyed the wood I guess maybe if you were careful you could do a good job and I I did not few things that we need to start with you need to get get yourself a putty knife I find the ones that are have a little bend like this work really great um kind of just what I'm I'm used to using and also the thing about putty nights and to get a really nice job the the key is to have a stiff a stiff putty knife you don't want one that has a lot of flex or bend to it because you've got to apply constant pressure to the putty as your treasure running it to make the bead nice and smooth and another thing you need is either a gasket scraper or a putty knife with like a sharpened edge just something that you can not to lose putty oh this putty is is really old and dried out and as you can see it's kind of chipping off and flaking so this is going to be really really easy to clean out just trying to get in there look at that that's a bad shape they want to go nice and easy because you don't want to break the glass that's in there um then if you do break it it's not a big deal to replace it but if you can avoid it you want to you want to avoid it and when you're scraping this out you got to be careful because if you look there are points they actually block the glass up it's a little piece of metal like right there a little triangles little triangle and that's called a point so again you just bus all the old buddy out and sometimes it goes little hardness this is when you're doing a just a reglaze like this the most important thing is that you want to get the real loose stuff office if some stuff is still nice and tight to the wood it's okay to leave it so you don't you doesn't have to be completely right exactly exactly we actually we call it spot laser now this is all this is all pretty pretty clean you wanna just to make sure you get a nice smooth edge just clean this up just so that you're not going over any loose stuff because then that will cause the putty not to stick so you want to just get it get all the dust out of there now I brought a putty that I use is called damp take your putty knife and get a handful of putty here you want to kind of squish it all in to your hands and get it all nice and soft and pliable it helps if you have the latex gloves that we forgot to get some but you know and you want to get the putty nice and warm so it's viable and pliable just like kneading bread get it all get it all nice and soft and sometimes we have older putty that's been sitting around your basement for a little while and you want to reuse it and notice when you open up the can if air gets into it it starts to dry out take a little bit of linseed oil and you don't need much just like a little cap full yeah put a little linseed oil in there and knead it around a little bit that softens it up and makes it nice now what we do is you take the knife and you can hold it and you'll see as I'm doing this I kind of flip it around the knife I use it every which way but use it the way that you feel the most comfortable with it you taken I actually pack the putty in there first I just go right down the line you don't have to be real neat about it we can clean it up afterwards just pack it in there so it's all nice and into that groove so you don't have any voids in there and then what I do is I take the knife if you can see I'm I'm kind of putting this edge against the wood like this and I've got my angle like this with the front edge picked up so that I'm not dragging the putty and pulling it out as I'm as I'm going with it then what I do is I push in tight like this and I find the angle and the way I find the angle that I'm going to I'm going to work at is I go by the sight line on the inside where the molding is on the inside because you don't want to go over that sight line you're going to see the putty and inside and it kind of doesn't doesn't look real great so you do is you find your angle apply steady pressure that's the trick steady pressure you just go down and if you push you'll see that you can I'm actually cutting the putty out of the way as I go about both sides and I start to lift my knife when I get to the edge tilt it and then come up like this Wow let's clean corner and then you could just take your finger and peel that out of there and bingo one sides done nice if you look you got a nice sight line - Audrey so you can't sing it a name now the thing is with this putty you can buy all different kinds of body with this putty once you're done you don't want to you don't want to paint it right away the best thing to do is to let it if it's cold out it takes longer for the oils to dry out so the best time we really do this is early fall or in the summer or late spring when it's a little drier weather and it dries out quicker and then you can paint it you have to paint it you don't have to paint it if you don't want I've been like I was taught that you kind of rolled the putty up into a long hot dog and then you stuck it in the groove and I've done it that way too now like on this side um I'm right-handed so it's easy for me to go like this down this side rather than going like this so now that I'm switching sides I'm gonna flip my knife the other way and go the other way Wow I'm just gonna do the same thing just backwards that's amazing just like so I've been dreading doing this and now it's so simple and again the key is having a nice a nice putty knife that's a trick can you get those or any hardware stores it oh you know what we order these in bulk we get a bunch of them at a time and we get them from a distributing company called CR Lawrence this way you can either go come from this end and go that way or I put my knife around go that way it doesn't really make a difference so when I get into the corner now that I'm ready to mend two seams yeah I'll take my knife and I'll put it at an angle and come up the corner like so yeah Wow and then when I get to this edge I'll do the same thing oh it's that sweet come up well now so to get the hook off the glass do you let it dry then you can use Windex or something you can you can clean it right away if you want um the key is not to push hard with the paper towel against the buddy like this putty I mean you can if you run your finger down it or whatever like if you get a little lump like like seal I got a fingerprint on it yeah if you just take your finger well the buddy's still wet you can get rid of that rust on the top so the thing I didn't realize is that you if some of the putty is stuck in there you can leave the old putty in there if it's already if it's adhering well write exams work over exactly I mean it's like you really to make a nice a nice glaze job to make it the easiest it is your best bet would be to get all the putty out of there right if you don't if you don't really if it does or if you really want to reglaze all your windows and you're worried about any old putty being in there and the putty comes out really hard another trick is that you can do is you take either a heat gun and a hairdryer will not work so you need either a never painting paint heat gun or a torch yeah something like this exactly you just want it you know you put your flame on low and just go back and forth and and you just you just warm up that putty until it gets a little soft then you take your torch away and you can just kind of go ahead and scrape right it right down this is the pain we just did and if you look you can't see anybody coming to the inside so you have really nice sight lines yeah cuz on these other ones you can see the putty sticking out and Bobby's does not stick out sign up a professional here so that wraps it up thank you for coming Thank You Bobby and it's time now to the barn again