Morton Safety Break System for Stained Glass Work

Although I am still practicing with these gizmos they have already greatly proven their value when applied to my work. After using them on scrap glass to test their effectiveness as tools (as well as my ability to actually learn the proper technique to achieve best results) I employed them on real projects. Once I got the hang of the basics they demonstrated themselves to be super time savers producing clean, controlled breaks according to my designs. The only serious drawback is that, unlike in the instructions, I need to use two hands to get the needed leverage. (The included instructions are otherwise thorough, detailed, and helpful as well.) Caveats: I have only worked with 3mm glass with these items and have not gone in for the ultra-esoteric curvature cuts these are supposed to be able to accomplish. Still, a real time saver; a simple notion that solves problems and makes the glasscutter's life much easier. It does what it says it does and arrived ahead of schedule.

This red plastic plain looking tool is a miracle maker! Not only does it work fantastic, they give you a pamphlet on the back with info that blew my mind! We were not all trained equally and a lot of my glass making has been self taught. Even at that, I have taken courses and none of them taught me what this paper did in so little time. I am so excited to jump into cutting ornaments for Christmas, and saving a bunch of my very expensive, beautiful Christmas glass! Thank you for this amazing little tool!

Works really great for curves and difficult cuts. It has saved me a lot of glass due to bad breaks. Definitely worth the money. But I still haven't been able to figure out how to use the runner even after watching the video.

Where has this been all my life? This little plastic gadget does things that I thought were impossible. To show my wife, I scored a piece of blue opalescent glass in a curve 1/4” wide. I let the runner and the button do their thing and I got a clean break all the way across. Narrow pieces snap off right where they should, either straight or curved. I’m sure I’ll still use my breaking pliers, but not nearly as much. Less grinding, too.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Morton set "ITS ME I CANNOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE IT, OF COURSE I HAVE READ THE DIRECTIONS MANY TIMES" I am feeling so dumb. Your service was great, I may have to return it, since cutting glass is my real problem in glass hobby. I need a video for dummies, I mean it. jj

I've watched the youtube videos several times and read the ridiculous instructions that came with it but haven't figured it out yet and I'm NOT stupid. The written instructions compare the glass with a balloon and refers to this several times. Sheesh. I've scored tons of glass and don't need to know the physics of a score and the dynamics of each layer of glass and how the score might break. I'll keep practicing with it and if I can reach some level of success with it, I'll change my rating. I'm hopeful I can learn to use it without ruining too much of my glass. If you are the dude who wrote the instructions, please re-write your instructions so that the pictures/photos/wording are aligned and simple to follow. Or re-record the video so that we can follow each step to create simple straight pieces before moving on to curves and circles.

This may have been a case of “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, but this tool set was more work than doing it with traditional tools and tapping.

I am loving this breaker. I have used running pliers exclusively since I started glass cutting some 10 years ago. I started seeing this tool in more and more video tutorials and wanted to try it. I have had many more successful curved cuts with this tool. It is easy to use and the instructions provided to learn how to use it are wonderful and supplemented with online video tutorials. I wish I had found it years ago!