My wife and I were cleaning during football today and found a few picture frames. She asked me can we engrave the glass ? After a bit of research I found some settings that I liked and she came up with the quote. For our first attempt (well second … see below) we though it turned out well
Settings:
Full Power
700 Speed
270 LPI
.082 Focus Height
I did use blue painters tape on both sides of the glass. Nothing else.
Remember at the top we said see below … well here it is. The first time we tried this we had the power set at 1. Just so everyone knows … If you want to mark painters tape, the laser setting is 1. That’s the white in the picture.
After weeding. We did notice that the tape left a bit of residue on the glass. Cleaned right off with some glass cleaner. The background is just a piece of Cricut brown cardstock.
Nice!
Glad to know regular glass comes out well. Appreciate the tip on the setting of 1–have found that out, too on a project! But it’s a great way to confirm the design will be where you want it! And glad you did the etching from the back side, too.
I love engraving on glass. One trick that I’ve found is to smear some white toothpaste in an even thin layer over the surface. This acts as a heat sink and works just like masking but without the hassle of clean up afterwards. Simply rinse it off in a sink.
Thanks for the suggestions about the toothpaste and the dish soap. We have decided that after 10 pieces of glass we will be sticking to the blue painters tape on both sides of the piece. It works best for us. Here’s another piece we did.
Thanks for your post. I have been afraid to engrave on glass. (I’m always afraid when trying something new), but I took some of your suggestions and used masking tape and engraved on the back.
Settings:
Full Power
700 Speed
270 LPI
.07 Focus Height
I loved how easy it was and I loved the final product. Don’t mind the smudges, I promise it was all cleaned up before gifting. I won’t post the final photo, out of respect for my client, but I will certainly be engraving on glass more often.
Your piece looks great @mmecham.
I thought I had read somewhere that would help with reflection. Really just the way I decided to do it. It works so now it’s just my method. So it uses a bit more tape., but it works for me.
Just unroll slightly, put stabilizer underneath it. Didn’t hoop the toilet paper. Stitched like a dream. Fun gift topper. Looked for a photo … I don’t have either.
Your welcome. I hope it works out for you. We have done quite a few more pieces with these exact settings and all have turned out great. Let us know how yours turned out.
