This featured sandblasting work was submitted by Cheryl. I thought these were cool and will give you some great ideas! This shows the great variety of items that can be sandblasted. She sandblasted a concrete block which others may call a patio stone, a decorational mirror, pilsner glasses and a shorter glass which might be
My hand won’t fit in that small hole “So I blew it!” This helpful tutorial and creative idea was submitted to the blog by Jon Mallory. What an awesome idea to allow you to place patterns/images inside hard to get areas of a glass for engraving! Please read Jon’s tutorial that he provided us below:
We are featuring Kevin Retelle today with his rotary engraved glasses. I have done a similar personalized glass like this before, but used the sandblasting process and different software, but I haven’t documented it well, so this makes a great fit! It is a lot simpler than other methods such as using a halftone photoresist
Nadina Piehl has been a subscriber for almost as long as I’ve had this website and she sent me these photos. She sent over a picture of: • A blue glass jug with an etching of a ship on the front (great contrast). • A pitcher etched with some oceanic scenery • A glass bowl
We featured Doug K. before. This time around he sent me these interesting items he etched. He etched some glass jars/ canisters, flutes for a wedding, candles which could be a great idea for Valentine’s day coming up, NFL etched glass sets, and a blue glass mug! He shared the following details: The floss canisters
Here is the first featured glass artist of 2015! This marvelous artistic glass bottle was completed by Radivoj Jovanov. He states that it is a special technique through the combination of glass carving, sand blasting and painting (with colors for metal). He provided the following images and the steps he takes to complete this below.
Here is another glass etcher that I wanted to feature named Debbie D. Her ideas are unique which we don’t hear much about. She etched various sayings and sentences in glass. It reminds me when I etched this poem into a glass mug (warning, I used a poor camera to take the photo). Anyway, she
For this round, we are featuring Patrick B’s submission. He engraved an eagle with the American flag, by sand carving it into jade. He also used LED lights to light it up. Jade glass is a softer substrate than the common, annealed glass, but can still be etched into. Jade is usually made from various
I though this was a fun project that Cheryl wanted to share. This is a lot different that what we usually post about so it gives a unique perspective on other things that can be done with etching. It looks like the main goal when etching this project was to roughen up the glass so
This project was created because my breakfast restaurant needed some personalized cream containers for those who don’t want to use prepackaged creamers. I cut the bottles below the existing seam in the glass. When I created the containers, there was a part of the bottle left. It sure looked like a bell to me. By
I am pleased to feature our third subscriber. In this post, Mark T. sent over an excellent picture of a mirror he engraved of a wolf. The detail in this engraving is amazing. Just click on the picture to see a close up view of the detail. Mark provided the following details about his work.
