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For this post, I wanted to feature Valerie Berg and her rotary engraved mug of an eagle. She sent this in last year to share but I am just now getting to it. Sorry for the delay. She stated that it was done with rotary engraving tools, various bits and burs. You can see with
In this post, we feature Derek Phillips of Athens, Greece and his beautifully engraved artwork that he sent in awhile ago. I think this post is quite interesting, not only because his work is phenomenal, but also because he engraves with a unique method not talked about much: hand-scribed engraving This engraving process is basically done by
Cheryl was nice enough to share some of her projects with us recently. I haven’t seen as much rotary engraving work done on mugs and rocks, so I thought this was interesting to share some ideas. I typically use sandblasting techniques to engrave mugs as explained in the member’s area. One of her projects was
Steffen from Denmark submitted these photos of his etched mirror welcome sign. We have featured others that used LEDs to light up the etching on mirrors such as this project by Dana and this one by Ernie. The cool thing about Steffen’s project is he used a color changing LED setup. I noticed from the
I have always thought etching or engraving plain glass and framing it is some of the best things to work with and we featured a lot of them. So we wanted to feature Shelbie Mclemore’s awesome engravings done with a dremel rotary tool. Then she shared one of a elephant with a unique design that
I am a bit late in posting this, but the idea is still great and will give you ideas. Tracy Bird etched some of her reverse etched glasses, which I believe are champagne flutes. See also etched these amazing wedding glasses. The glasses were etched with the Christmas theme. As you can see, the first
Dana Long shared these photos of mirrors engraved from the back side and lit up with LED lights for both businesses and personalized gifts. She stated they were done with the Dremel tool which is another way to get through the painting and silver backing in addition to ways I mentioned in using the sandblasting
Jade Elizabeth contacted me a while back after trying out our translucent glass paints and she had some questions that we wanted to share here because it might help others out. She was also nice enough to share her painted glass projects she did! Another point of this post was to emphasize that you
I am happy to share another engraving from Suzanne Travelstead! See her previous dremel engravings here. She was nice enough to share the details on how she engraved this Harley Davidson mirror. I have sandblast etched their logo before, but can’t find the photo. It is interesting to note that she mentions that she got
I am happy to share another featured etching this month which was submitted by Albert Myrstol ! After some of our posts about painting etched glass, he shared his method which used Martha Stewart’s craft paints. I am not sure if he used their regular craft paint, but I did find that the company offers
Our latest featured etching project was submitted by Suzanne Travelstead! She does engraving with a Dremel tool. This is another way to etch designs into glass which I don’t talk about enough. I am not sure which Dremel model she uses and there are different types, but I found one on Amazon here. Susan’s projects
