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 photo shows three different patterns etched of a snowflake, reindeer and Christmas tree design.
Tracy was nice enough to share her work with us and I wanted to point out this great technique of etching the reversed part of the stencil. This is more appropriately called high relief etching or what I sometimes call negative etching.
In this process, you basically cut out and remove every part of the stencil except the actual design. So when using a black and white pattern, you would pull out the white part of the stencil. This can be done with the photoresist stenciling process too, but you would have to simply use the Invert tool on your design software, as I explained in the member’s area.
We don’t talk about this technique enough, but it’s quite interesting. Sometimes etching the negative works great, as with Tracy’s work, but some patterns don’t look as good. A while back, I etched the same design of a positive and negative to show you what the difference looks like in this Cincinnati Reds etching. You will see in that case, the negative etching didn’t work out.
On the contrary, you can see some of Tracy’s other negative etched designs that did work out. The other set of glasses has the words “Merry Christmas” and a decorative Santa design etched.
I want to thank Tracy for sharing your great work! Please leave Tracy a comment below and ask us any questions.
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Beautiful
Lovely work, Tracy! Thanks for sharing with us!
excellent work
Superb i like it, thanks its and a googd idea, once again thanks
Great looking Glass Work
Reverse etching is great with a candle inside. These look great and I think you did an awesome job. Please do not let the rest of my post be taken for anything other than trying to be helpful.
You may find that the etched areas are hard to keep finger prints off them. If etched to the lip, some people find that it is uncomfortable feeling on the lips as well as lip stick, juice/wine may stain or very hard to take off.
Again, I think you did a great job! Keep on Keeping on!
Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing.
@Dan, I forgot to mention about the fingerprint issue in the post as one downside to reverse etching. That’s a good point about the uncomfortable feeling near the lip too. One could tape that area and not etch it, perhaps 1/2 inch to 3/4″
Fantastic work. Keep doing it. Really love it
Fantastic work keep doing it
Great work Tracy, keep the ideas coming.
Thank you all very much for all your lovely comments.