Our second featured glass etcher is William Lay. He sent over this etching of his grandson on a stein and gave it to his dad for Father’s Day. He told me that his son really treasures that stein. I have always said that the homemade etchings that are personalized are the best gifts! He shared
Doug Kelly is our first etcher to be featured on the blog in quite a while. He shared these four jar etchings that he did which seems to depict the old west or country feel. This can be an interesting theme to etch and the jars is another idea I’ve never etched! He also shared
I haven’t discussed rock carving much on this website, so I figured this post will share the idea and intrigue you. Some people call it rock sandblasting, rock sandcarving, rock engraving or even etching. The idea of this is to carve text, numbers, logos, or images permanently into a large rock or small stone. This
I wanted to create this post to clear up some information that I placed on my site that is somewhat confusing, and explain another etching cream made by Martha Stewart Crafts. In my free PDF ebook about cream and throughout other pages on this site, I have commented that all etching creams produce fairly similar
I recently got this question about glass cutters and oil. “I just received the Toyo glass cutter (which was suggested in my bottle cutter plans). It’s oil filled. How can that work based on the position of the cutter in the guide? Oil does not run uphill. Thanks in advance, Jim” My response: The oil
I created this quick video which shows you how to register through the member’s area and view all the tutorials on etching and sandcarving. Please press the play button below to view and ask me any questions in the comments area. The topics covered in the video are: Registering (link here) Member’s access & finding
Attention: After helping a few others sell their etching equipment, I have been getting other people emailing me. I am happy to help out my subscribers, so here is another person (Sam) who is selling a Jet Stream Two sandblasting system. Again, I am not affiliated with this so please do your own research. Thanks
A man named Mike sent me these pictures of an interesting lion etched in a medium sized thick glass. Two reasons for this post: 1- We want to know if anyone knows about this etching and a possible artist named Holder (as seen in the signature). 2- He is trying to sell this, so let
Sand Carving Equipment – Now Sold Note: This is a classified ad that someone provided me. She asked me if I knew anyone that would be interested so I offered to let others know about it. I have no affiliation with her and am just relaying the message. Please contact her directly or leave a
I recently opened up a small bottle of etching cream and noticed it was getting thick. Some parts were almost hardening to a point of being solid crystals! This is fairly common if you haven’t used it in awhile and sometimes the bottle can even be shipped with crystals. To dilute thick cream or prevent
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I recently received a question from one of my subscribers asking: how do you get 2 different textures, light and dark with etching cream? Most people know that this can be done with rotary engraving and I have been doing 2 tone etchings with sandblasting through the use of either 2 stage sandcarving or shade
