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What is Glass Etching?Glass etching is a roughening method on a portion of glass that a designer may want personalized or decorated. This is also known as sandcarving, or sandblasting. The designer may also want to etch a mirror, stone, marble, or crystal. You may want a frosted look added to a design on a Champaign class. This would be a soft blast of sand in order to accomplish such a task. This is called shading, and is done with a real delicate airbrush technique. If your looking for a deeper cut design, I would then choose a thicker piece of glass to blast into. This may be done to a window, maybe for a shower door, the front door of your home, or a china cabinet. This design then would need a more sharp grid of sand to blast deeper into the glass. Both types of applications are permanent.
Some of the products I use to achieve the sand blasting results are:
- Photo Negative Artwork
- UV Exposure Devise
- Sand Carving Cabinet
- Abrasives / Sandcarving Media
- Rapid Mask
- UV Filtered Yellow Fluorescent Light
- Pressure Pot System
- Line Designs
- Cutting Tools
- Vacuum Exhaust System
- Mirror / Glass
- Dust Collector
- Resist