You may know there are many different ways to spicing up your etching with colors. All the different paints and colorants to use have pros & cons. It really depends on your needs when selecting the perfect way to color your etching. We have discussed using a product called Rub N’ Buff a while back.
Answer: Most likely not. I commonly get customers of our Upcycle EZ-Cut Bottle Cutters tell me their cutter blade is worn and dull. After researching this, we have found in every case that the blade shows no signs of wear and it looks as good as a new replacement blade. We further test these blades
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Regardless of what type of glass paint you use with stencils, it is prone to peeling off when the stencil in lifted. In the past, we offered a lacquer based glass paint, which had another issue with melting the vinyl stencil. However, now we mainly offer a quality water-based product that will not dissolve the
This week we are featuring Rex L. and his Star Wars glass etching. Since there are a lot of Star Wars fans, this idea would probably be a big hit for many folks. It reminds me of this other Star Wars themed etching from a subscriber. It would make a great gift and Rex etched
We have discussed shadeblasting in the past and featured some pros with their work here on the blog. When I first started etching in the glass sandblasting hobby, the sandcarving process was what I was most interested in. However, the shadeblasting process has really caught my interest lately, although it is relatively new to me.
If you use a pressure pot sandblaster to etch glass or sandcarve like I do, you may realize the ball valves have to occasionally be replaced. The pressure pot system typically has up to four ball valves or more, but only the below two require replacement the most often because they come in contact with
If you are familiar with 2 stage sandcarving, the process involves removing the stencil for the deeper stage for sandblasting and then doing the same for the second with a lighter etch. Typically this is sandblasted from the backside and viewed from the front. In this project, I tested the 2 stage process being viewed
Uwe Schwenk was nice enough to write up a great tutorial on how to rotary engrave glass for all of us. Thank you, Uwe! Uwe shared the below project on how it was engraved using a native American warrior pattern on regular glass and colored it. This particular project is part of a series of
In this post, I wanted to share a recent project to give you some creative ideas that combines many craft forms into one project which are: Glass etching Candle making Bottle cutting/ glass cutting Glass painting In the below you can see the completed project of a cut wine bottle turned into a candle with
I had a recent post which discussed how I had to sand edges of a defective glass mug but it created scratches on the glass. In that case, I decided to frost the whole handle instead of putting the time to buff out the scratches. Below you can see the before and after picture of
In this post we will discuss how to sand glass in general, how to smooth glass edges that stick out and provide information on diamond sandpaper. We recently ordered about a dozen or so low cost beer mugs to etch on for gifts. Although these were inexpensive, the handles had edges that stuck out through
