Sandcarving
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What gear is required when sandcarving in a blast room?
To blast in a blast room, you must wear a protective suit – I wear a Tyvek suit with a…
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Education
Dress Up Corporate Awards with Simple Stage Carving
Unique to sandcarving, stage carving is a quick and easy process to add to your bag of tools to help…
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Education
Try This: Twice Etched, Twice Painted Tumblers
Powder-coated stainless-steel tumblers are a popular commodity. One way to add a custom twist is with a double etched image.…
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Best Production Setup for Sandcarving Large Panels
It’s easiest to blast large panels in a blast room. Yes, it means putting on all that gear, but the…
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When should I use cover paper for my photoresist stencils?
Cover paper is used to protect photoresist stencils from elements like dust and from becoming too dry for later use. Once…
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What types of sandcarved products can awards retailers offer customers in addition to traditional trophies and plaques?
Just about any substrate that has a friable surface can be sandcarved – glass, all natural stone, Corian, wood, and…
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What considerations should be made when sandcarving wood?
It is important to note when sandcarving wood surfaces to use aluminum oxide abrasive in place of silicon carbide. The silicon…
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What considerations should be made when sandcarving marble plaques?
For something different than brass on walnut wall plaques, awards retailers can offer sandcarved marble plaques. Though it is pretty…
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Determine the Emulsion Side of Dry Process Film
When you remove the first process film sheet from the box, make sure you pay attention to which side was…
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What is the difference between sandcarving with aluminum oxide versus silicon carbide?
Though silicon carbide is more expensive than aluminum oxide, it cuts twice as fast, lasts much longer, does not get…
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When washing out sandcarving film, why do the small details dissolve, move, or delaminate?
This has several possible causes: most likely, underexposure or over washing. Underexposure can be corrected by following the exposure schedule…
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Extend the Life of Your Dust Collector
While the dust collector is on, it accumulates a thick coating of dust on the filter. This coating makes the…
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Education
Selecting a Sandcarving System: Pressure pot versus siphon-fed blaster
Pressure pot blasters not only work faster (up to four times faster) than siphon-fed blasters, but they also allow for…
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How should I prepare glass for etching?
Glass should be cleaned thoroughly with a commercial glass cleaner, such as PhotoBrasive’s Glass and Surface Cleaner. Ammonia-based cleaners are…
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Test the Density of Your Sandcarving Film
It is important that the black areas can block UV light, but toner that looks dense on vellum may actually…
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Combining Sandcarving with Other Decorating Technologies
Some decorators will sandcarve and then paint-fill their items after carving into them. We see this in almost every substrate: glass, brick, stone, ceramic, metal, and…
