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Spikosauropod
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Wow, you really slipped that one out. I had no idea you were stalking a mirror.
Good job!
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Looks awesome Chuck!!! 
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11/3/2009, 10:48 pm
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The crack does not show in all of the mirror pics. I faquely recollect someone one day (Jess?) to say it was actually part of electric wire showing on the reflection.
In any case a hair clued on will look just like a crack.
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I remember as a kid them selling joke pencils to fake glass and mirror cracks.
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In any case, if you decide to try and "crack" the mirror for real, then you should take few things into consideration:
1) Be very VERY sure there are no particles on the mirror: no dust and NO breadcrums or anything under and below the mirror.
2) have a piece of thick cardboard or small grinded stryrox as a working pad. It is a NECESSITY to have NO PRESSUREpoints upon which the mirror would crack randomly.
3) go get yourself a DIAMOND mirror cutting blade OR a thin edged diamond file
4) go with from middle to the edge and be sure to LIFT pressure a bit near the edge.
You can make yourself a guiding line/ crack safety with two duct-tape pieces, placed carefully leaving the area open you wish to encarve.
5) DO NOT hone back-and-forth, do all cutting/carving with same direction. Doing back-and-forth usually causes the mirror to "explode" aka shatter to zillion pieces.
6) remember, mirror, like glass, likes to shatter easier, if there is a point of a crack or a beginning for a crack. So go around the mirror with P1200 - 1400 WETsanding paper, to make sure tiny tiny cracks on the edge will cause the mirror to shatter on the wrong place.
make sure you wash all residue away before and during the cutting.
BUT remember: A glass likes to be cutted dry, honed wet!
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Any good glass cutter should be able to reproduce the crack for real.
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I am going for this carrying case for the mirror. Please don’t bid against me.
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Nice, best of luck, looks excellent.
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