My Journey: When I first got into glass etching, I was most interested in the sandblasting process and was about to spend over $10,000 on equipment advertised by manufacturers. Just before I was about to make the irrationally quick decision, I decided to research other lower cost solutions and ended up piecing together a great setup for at least 90% less. My goal through our ebook and membership area is to provide this information so you too can save, while still etching like a pro. It is my aim that a small investment in this information will actually save you thousands.
Hello all — it has been a while since I posted, and I am trying to find the time to get back into things. To start it up again, Rex Linder shared this sandblasted wine glass. I wanted to point out the interesting idea he used by etching the stem of the glass. This reminded
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Many people ask me about “what type of sandblasting equipment is recommended to etch glass,” and it really depends on what your goal is. I discuss this in the ebook/membership site and occasionally throughout the blog, but I don’t think I have explained it in one, concise, detailed post on this blog. After receiving the
I don’t use etching cream quite as much as sandblasting, but many people here use it and I enjoy experimenting to find the better products. I also find it interesting to mix/combine cream with sandblasting or engraving as I will be discussing in the member’s area here. So it is something you might want
I wanted to cover a few topics in this post: Idea of experimenting patterns and etching them on bottles Finding excellent free patterns Tips on how to photograph etched glass Experimenting patterns and etching idea A lot of times I like to experiment with various patterns on glass to see how they look or I
Omar Alvarez shared his multi-etched tempered glass which is lit up with an homemade LED frame through the submission form. As you may know, I enjoy lighting up sandblasted glass, especially items that are carved deep. This submission brings up another topic too, because it was sandcarved into tempered glass which is known to break
I am happy to share Tracy Bird’s etched bride & groom champagne flutes and creative wine glass designs that came in from the submission form to be featured. I really liked how she used different font sizes/types of this etched wedding gift and the stem design. These simply have each others names, whether bride or
Ross Wease seems to do a large variety of etchings and sandcarvings! He submitted these sandblasted wood, glass & stone signs in a past submission and now has shared some very large stones that were sandcarved for signs on site! Some stones weight thousands of pounds which would not be ideal to haul around. Large
This featured etching was submitted to us by Brenda Weston. Not only is her theme cool with a Star Wars etched glass, but it is also interesting that she mixed her stained glass hobby in her work. Brenda placed a stained glass border pattern around her etched glass centerpiece. I thought that was a great
Here is the latest featured submission to the blog by Diane Lee. She sent in these great pictures of various designs all hand engraved with a diamond scribe tools on mugs and vases. These look so fun! She also provided the below which talks about: what type of patterns she recommends how to hand engrave
If you like glass engraving/etching and antique art that was accomplished in the past history, you will like this post. Randy S. emailed me these pictures to get my opinion on how the design was created into a mirror inside a similar 1910-ish horse drawn Gypsy Wagon that he is restoring. And we need your
Jean Anderson sent over these glass projects of her micro-motor engraved shadings. These are excellent and we don’t really talk much about rotary engraving, so this is a great post! I get questions about how to do shading with a rotary engraver and Jean shares some details on what she uses below. Here are some
