Glass finish for fish tank build

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Hello , i couldn't find any glass worker \ factory that can produce machine ground finish for fish tank glass , even the local fish shop seems to use raw glass that he later finish on his own .

So the question here what should i do in this case ? getting some manual finish from a random glass worker ? the one i asked to give me a sample basically used a rough hand sanding machine to produce a '' flat'' ground finish but i can see the many micro glass breaks on the edge side .

alternatively i can order a machine flat polish with smallest arris possible ( 0.5 mm if i can find , if not 1 mm ) and manually use sand paper to make the smooth flat edge rough again . i can compensate slightly by ordering slightly larger glass

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I don't know about others, but I can't see anything that you posted besides large pictures of stacked glass samples and a Dust Bowl coral banner.
 
I don't know about others, but I can't see anything that you posted besides large pictures of stacked glass samples and a Dust Bowl coral banner.
posted those for visual reference of the type of edge finish , as i said i couldn't find a local glass shop that machine cut glass with rough edges for fish tank construction , looking for alternatives
 

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