Got myself on the tile kick

Made on a Glowforge
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Thanks!

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I actually created my first proper jig a couple days ago and it works pretty well assuming I don’t mess with the alignment points in the source file.

I do wish alignment was better. Even at the center of my camera it is very off. Also, my camera is blurry throughout the whole image… might just need to clean of residue from smoke or what not.

@jamesdhatch

I calibrated for my offset.

I’m having a hard time visualizing what you described. If you have a moment, any pictures you can share?

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I may have a post out there but either @kittski or @cynd11 were the creators of the process I used. The right one will pop in now with a specific link that I referenced them :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yep! That would be this one, most likely:

And you don’t really need to use graph paper, you can just make crosshairs on cardstock or draftboard or whatever.

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Which is what I used.

Thanks @cynd11 for providing the link. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I love the images you used! The tiles are great.

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I seriously need to raid your image collection. Ha! I just love what you’ve selected.

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I love these. Can you pls share where did you get the tiles? Also, did you paint on top of the engraving? Really cool colors there!

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Thanks…they are just home depots …think they were 50 cents…,the two that came out kinda blue was a really old sharpie then switched to a new one for the other two.

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I’ve seen a few threads on this and decided to give it a try. Got some cheap tiles at Lowes and tried it, the etch worked great with the settings from one of the threads but I can’t ever see doing a second one with the amount of work to color it. Do you let the Sharpie dry first or clean it right after coloring it in? I tried coloring it and then wiping it off right away but it was also taking off the color I wanted to stay. So I then tried to let it dry a bit but then it was very hard to remove. I used baby wipes so maybe that was part of the issue? I read from one thread to use MrClean pads I think.

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Get the big FAT Sharpies. :wink: Or the oil-based ones. They’ll cover faster!

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Oil based Sharpies with the fat tips. Color the whole tile smearing it on. Let dry and then using a slightly damp Magic Sponge rub the tile. It will only take off the Sharpie that’s on the glaze, not the ink that’s in the engraving.

It will take some rubbing but it’s only a minute or two.

Other folks use alcohol but that can wash out some of the engraving.

BTW, if you much up a tile you can soak it in bleach and it will clean out all of the ink and you can repaint it.

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Thanks for the suggestions! Used a big Sharpie and let it dry completely then used a slightly damp Magic Eraser and it cleaned right up pretty effortlessly!! I need to now find a box of these Magic Erasers as I only had half of one left from a long time ago.

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Walmart has a no-name brand (they’re melamine sponges) next to the Mr Clean ones for much cheaper. Amazon has 100 of them even cheaper :slightly_smiling_face: I use them for tiles but dry they do a nice job of cleaning unmasked leather ( just did 100 leather key tags today for the local Makerspace). Used 2 sponges to clean them all.

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I sure have!!!

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The 100 pack from Amazon finally arrived today. Have not yet been down to open the package up but sounds like I need to make a tile run tomorrow! Just also happens to be Home Depot make and take day so good excuse to take the kiddo.

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Seems like the new snapmark functionality might help us out… now how to get it activated for my account!

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Outstanding!! I’m looking forward to playing with ceramics myself! :smiley: