Glass Etching With Sandblasting and Acid Cream

This is a video I made awhile back which shows some of the different types of glass etching.

Basically shows me sandblasting a cup in one and using acid cream in the other to personalize glass.  I prefer the sandblasting method but there are cool things you can do with both of them.

Please check out my website for more information at www.glassetchingsecrets.com . 

Comments and questions are welcomed!  Actually they are encouraged :)

Thanks
-Eric

Comments

[rm1199]

The stencil used, is this vinyl? If so, what software do you use and what type of cutter? I find that we cannot get great detail cuts with our cutter but does great work. We use a film instead but find it to be very expensive and just looking for other alternatives. Any suggestions? Any ideas on how to adjust my cutter to get better detail cuts?

[overblast]

Just bought a heavy duty Sears sandblaster (electric). Will that work well?

[jelleAtProtospace]

"Basically it shows me sandblasting a glass in one and using acid cream etching in the other" should probably read:
"Basically shows me sandblasting a glass bottle in the first part and using acid cream etching in the second."

[bhotiyo]

how many presar of sand to bottle ?

[artsman23]

Thanks for all the comments :)

Feel free to ask any questions.

-Eric

[Dr Qui]

What type of sandblaster are you using?

I prefer to use the hinge method when applying the vinal decals, it gives you much more control on positioning the decal, check out my Ible on applying vinal decals.

[artsman23]

Thanks Dr Qui,

I was using a pressure pot sandblaster.

I agree the hinge method is the way to go. I used this way because it was a smaller stencil so it didn't matter to me.

[Dr. Pepper]

I once had a sand blaster, now it's gone and this looks so awesome!

[Scott_Tx]

Seems like for the casual etcher the cream is a lot cheaper setup, why do you prefer the sandblasting?

[Scott_Tx]

Nevermind, went to your site and read some and you explain it