First attempt on leftover 3x6 glass tiles

[jamesdhatch]

@bmcgrain

So, with the glass tile (I looked at some at Lowes tonight) … it has a backing and I’m not sure if that is removable or is there to keep the look of the tile uniform. I want to engrave/score the reverse side of the tile (and obviously invert the design) and then file the engraved part with paint for that dramatic look.

It does engrave. I’ve got a post up with some of them I did (I think - I’ll look for it). If it’s the same glass tiles I used the white backing is actually some kind of paint or finish that the laser doesn’t really remove - it turns it black though. Etching on the front works but gives you a shadowed depth/reflection. Let me see if I can find you a link.

EDIT: Here’s the link to my post on the glass tiles I use.

Dispatches from the front (Pre-Release Report)

Messed around a bit playing with some glass tiles from Home Depot. They’re backed with a painted coating that I expected would ablate and leave the scored glass. I was interested in what kind of etching I could get with the glass. [image] Instead of ablating the paint it seemed to melt it into the etch. The view of the back was one I ran at 225 lpi for the etch at 1% power. I saw some striations in the black so bumped it to 5% and 340 lpi for the rest of the experiments. Here’s the back of th…