Hey Bill, I am always amazed with the results you get consistently from glass. I havent played with glass yet, but will at some point when some time presents itself. But in the meantime I keep watching what others are experiencing, both on this forum and folks who do it locally, and every time the results I see are so inferior to sandblasting I just dont understand what is going on. Like you and Dan, I know a very few who seem to be able to do it consistently well, but most flail at it and get pretty disappointing and often highly variable results. And these are people who I know approach something like this methodically and carefully, bracketing around techniques looking for the sweet spot that gives them good results, and they have good luck with every material they play with. Except of course, glass! I also noted that when I could compared well lasered glass against sandblasted glass the sandblasting is clearly better. Have you had a chance to compare your engraving on glass against similar efforts with abrasives? Just curious. It also seemed that the abrasive work I have seen was much faster than lasering glass. Any thoughts on that?
It is fascinating to follow. Someday, I will be so fascinated I will try it myself....drawn like a mouse to the gaping jaws of a snake I suppose. <grin>
Thanks for sharing all your techniques in that earlier post BTW. I have saved that for when I hear the siren call of glass engraving.
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