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Hi Bex,
Good to hear. Just I usually keep my eye on the silhouette forum and when it was released there was no end of problems with as you will see if you have a look. Although I think most of them have been addressed although there seem to be a lot of people not using it till its completely functional me being one of them.

Sammy.

going off original topic, i downloaded the new version and at first regretted it, ive got use to it slowly now,...

Went back to the previous version and now I am able to use it again
Here is my first ever Etch:



Oh, I found 6x straight (Long Drink) glasses in Makro for £1.80 inc vat.

NikGrey;87490 wrote:Went back to the previous version and now I am able to use it again
Here is my first ever Etch:
Oh, I found 6x straight (Long Drink) glasses in Makro for £1.80 inc vat.

Well done I will be well happy if my first effort is as good as yours! you were lucky with the glasses I tried Makro and the cheapest mine had were 6 quid for 4.

Strange that no-one uses Tescos anymore or you would have seen 6 highball glasses (Tescos Label) for a pound in their household department. (Not saying that people dont use Tescos... just saying that it beats me why people still buy from warehouse companies when they need something as basic as this.)

me me me! i bought my 6 wine glasses from tesco £1 each and now one of them is sitting in a wedding boutique in the Vale of Glamorgan......
Nikgrey thats a good effort for the first one, mine was total pants...

but i would like to discuss what method do you guys/gals use? do you stick individual letters on the glass then make a square around the letters then etch the space in between or do you pick out each letter and etch the letter space and only have the letter finally etched (hope you understand what i mean cos i dont lol)

me me me! i bought my 6 wine glasses from tesco £1 each and now one of them is sitting in a wedding boutique in the Vale of Glamorgan......
Nikgrey thats a good effort for the first one, mine was total pants...

but i would like to discuss what method do you guys/gals use? do you stick individual letters on the glass then make a square around the letters then etch the space in between or do you pick out each letter and etch the letter space and only have the letter finally etched (hope you understand what i mean cos i dont lol)

i was having to many blurred words so finally did it like this and i found it much easier.
http://www.theyummylife.com/etched_glass_tutorial

Just noticed this thread, and am intrigued and excited by some possibilities. Off now to read up on what the cream actually is and what it is doing technically/scientifically to the glass...
(in a similar way I have spent many hours reading up on exactly what sublimation inks are!)

OK, so it's an acid that eats away at the surface of the glass (or other ceramic type items)
Trying to work out in my mind how easy it would be to streamline the process for mass production of set designs rather than one offs. The idea of cutting out vinyl transfers for more intricate work and weeding doesn't appeal too much.

If there was a way of laser cutting a design template/stencil in metal and being able to form that into a curve to wrap around a mug - like an oven mug wrap, to be abel to reuse and quickly wrap and unwrap a glass... hmm

I think you would have two problems with that method.
Leeching of etch under the stencil as it wouldn't be tight against the glass
Metal would be eaten by the acid!