Glass etching

[Dave271069]

ive just purchased a small tub to try, got a potential customer waiting for samples for wedding glasses etc..should be fun..ideal for silhouette cameo owners,
hi Ian hope your doing well mate..

[arko]

Not too bad Dave thanks. Just waiting on the date for next op that should be in next couple of weeks. Its fun doing this with the etching but yougot to have a bit of patience and make sure you get it right first time. Even one slight drop of the cream on uncovered glass can ruin the whole project! Happy Dayz! hahaha.

[Limara]

I'll try that. Think I was doing my usual in that I decided to try etching and do 4 mother"s day glasses for my grand kids to give to their mum's - round glasses, small print, and lots of 'e', 'i' and 'a's etc. took 10 glasses, lots of hours and patience to get 4 acceptable but far from perfect ones. Along with sign vinyl, I'll also look for flat sided large glasses, (if they exist) my next attempt

not glasses but Morrisons and Asda both have some quite nice flat sided vases I have already been eyeing them up for doing etching. they are either 3.99 or 4.99

[Dave271069]

im learning the hard way too, finding out that the round glasses are a little bit difficult, ive used 3 of the wife's best wine glasses but im finding i get a lot of smudging and the letters are not perfect. been to tesco to buy 6 more at a £1 each so will get some more practice in before i attempt a big project.

[Limara]

im learning the hard way too, finding out that the round glasses are a little bit difficult, ive used 3 of the wife's best wine glasses but im finding i get a lot of smudging and the letters are not perfect. been to tesco to buy 6 more at a £1 each so will get some more practice in before i attempt a big project.

Which brand of cream are you using? do you have any idea why you are getting smudging.
Morrisons do packs of 4 glasses for £2.00 they have several shapes ( wine small martini and champagne) and the giant wine glass thats a whole bottle size are £1 each they and also have glass latte for 2 quid for 2. their larger blasses ( nince shaped beer) are £4.00 for 4.
I have read about doing wine glasses with make the cut software has a conical template that was designed for cup cake wrappers I think, even that isn't perfect, there must be a way to make templates to fit glasses. I wonder if the latte mug shape would help?

[Reg]

The reason for smudging is the vinyl hasn't stuck down properly either the glass is greasy or the vinyl is to cold I clean the area with meths the warm the stencil and repress the edges before putting the cream on.

[arko]

Spot on Reg. Also another little tip I found useful was to buy a wallpaper roller... the small rubbery type ones that you use to seal joints when hanging wallpaper. Heat the vinyl slightly and then use the roller all over the vinyl for a tight seal before and after weeding. Shouldnt get any more "bleeding" that way.

[NikGrey]

My Armour Etch arrived this morning and I was about to make my first attempt at an etch.



I'm going to use my usual roller for flatten the vinyl - fired up Silhouette Designer to find there is an update which looks like it will take 30mins to download..

Was going to ask about glasses but helpfully that has been addressed above

[ASO Embroidery]

Hi Nik,
Just watch your update there has been quite a few issues with regards it things not working etc. they have fixed a lot but as far as I'm led to believe there is still some problems hopefully you will be ok.
Personally I've been holding off till its all sorted.

Sammy

[Bex]

I've been using the new update for a couple of days. Haven't found any problems as of yet but I'll let you know if I do!