I recently attended and completed an eight week stained glass class. We had the option to do either copper foil or leadlight.
I ended up proceeding with copper foil.
I’m really stoked to get it completed and I am currently saving for my own grinder and soldering iron.
I made a joke in class that grinding and solder fixes everything!
I definitely used solder to bridge the gap, I lost my original middle piece and had already nearly completed it. So there is a lot of solder filling that gap, as none of my other stones were as big as the original.