Bernie Fraser
12-19-2014, 9:45 PM
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So I got the go ahead to engrave the tile on the right this morning. I had sealed it with the granite sealer, let it dry and then engraved. After engraving I took it to the sink and washed the dust off so it would not scratch the granite on Bills advice ( Thanks Bill ). Then when dry I rub the titanium white paint in and buff it off it but it appears that the paint fills little spots in my engraved photo. Sorry I did not take photos of this as I was panicking and wanted to get the paint off so I hit it with some turps and got rid of the paint. I then cleaned it up and let it dry and hit it with the NU Finish car polish. I was concerned the polish was really going to darken up my image and it did but then when it dried out it lightened up again and I think I am OK with it the way it is (No flash used on the photo). On the left is a previous tile I have used white paint on and no paint on the right. The photo used for the soldier was taken off Facebook where someone in the UK had photographed a framed picture so the quality in the original was not there to start with. I am still trying to get a process where I can get consistent results and at this stage I think I will stick with the no paint option only because if I use the paint for some reason I run into issues of the white specks but it does not appear to happen all the time. I will try and do a sample later on and upload here so you can see what I am talking about as I have no idea why it does it
So I got the go ahead to engrave the tile on the right this morning. I had sealed it with the granite sealer, let it dry and then engraved. After engraving I took it to the sink and washed the dust off so it would not scratch the granite on Bills advice ( Thanks Bill ). Then when dry I rub the titanium white paint in and buff it off it but it appears that the paint fills little spots in my engraved photo. Sorry I did not take photos of this as I was panicking and wanted to get the paint off so I hit it with some turps and got rid of the paint. I then cleaned it up and let it dry and hit it with the NU Finish car polish. I was concerned the polish was really going to darken up my image and it did but then when it dried out it lightened up again and I think I am OK with it the way it is (No flash used on the photo). On the left is a previous tile I have used white paint on and no paint on the right. The photo used for the soldier was taken off Facebook where someone in the UK had photographed a framed picture so the quality in the original was not there to start with. I am still trying to get a process where I can get consistent results and at this stage I think I will stick with the no paint option only because if I use the paint for some reason I run into issues of the white specks but it does not appear to happen all the time. I will try and do a sample later on and upload here so you can see what I am talking about as I have no idea why it does it