Best Etching Materials
Style: Glass Etching Starter Kit. For use with the Silhouette CAMEO, Silhouette Portrait and Silhouette Curio.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"There was only a short dvd that explained the heat transfer flocked material, but not the smooth material."
"Don’t waste money like I did, get something else to sketch with your cameo."
"Love these to put text on the outsides of cards, or to draw on messages for the insides of cards."
"Other than that, this material worked a great variety of surfaces including whicker, canvas, and shirts."
"Didnt know of i had to shake or heat up in a way that makes the ink be more fluid during printing."
"I wanted to add some bling to my jeans, so being an avid Silhouette user, I thought I would give this a try."
"I was sooooo excited about upgrading to the Designer Edition on my Cameo program. Desperate to get it done, I HAND PLACED all of the stones--which took me hours, and made me a bit crazy. For anyone who hasn't already destroyed tons of the flocking material, make sure you adjust your Silhouette settings."
"I spent $ 26.56 and that was the sale price!"
This unique glass etching system enables anyone to personalize and decorate glass or mirrors in minutes with no previous experience.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This was my first attempt at glass etching."
"When put on clear glass bottles for over 10 minutes the etching is very faint. Unless they can respond to my complaint and let me try another or resolve the weak cream, my review seems generous as is."
"Etches glass as advertised."
"For anyone who'd like to do the same, I used blue painter's tape to create bands of varying height for the etching on the bottles, starting about 3 inches from the base and going to just below the neck."
"It's great at what it does, if you apply 2+ coatings. Instead of overpriced stencils, you can use 12" x 20 ft Roll of Matte White Permanent Adhesive-Backed Vinyl for Craft Cutters, Punches and Vinyl Sign Cutters - Vinyl Ease V0401, simply carve out custom stencils with x-acto knife, and use masking tape to transfer design to glass, remove masking tape, and then apply the cream, wait 5-10 mins, wash all the residues off, dry, and apply cream a second time, rinse repeat. 3 coats give amazingly uniform etching."
"Armour Etch has become the industry standard for etching custom designs on glass products."
"Product worked just like advertised."
"The container must not have been sealed the stuff was all in the box dried around the edges, plenty left, just not what was supposed to be in the bottle.. Not a happy camper.. BTW, you must make sure to dab not brush and if you are doing fine work... good luck!"
10-ounce bottle of armour etch cream.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Make a glass cleaning solution of 50% of the highest concentration rubbing alcohol you can get (97% or higher is ideal) and 50% distilled or purified water. The cleaning solution will help remove oils from skin contact like fingerprints, and it will dry quickly too. Apply the cream over your stencil in a thick layer, then poke it a bit with the stick to break up any bubbles that might have formed from the application. Periodically redistributing the cream over the glass surface is critical to achieving the most consistent, smooth etch possible. This cream is a potent acid that can irritate your skin (or even burn it if not washed off immediately) and seriously damage the soft tissue in your eyes. Diluting the acid will preemptively protect you from silly mistakes like forgetting to run enough water down the drain when you rinse it."
"I've even etched a full bottle of Smirnoff Vodka and matching shot glasses to commemorate a friends wedding (they love vodka and hated wine or else I'd do wine glasses and a nice bottle of vino). Most recently I etched a glass cutting board as a wedding present. ), use transfer tape to apply the stencil to the glass, cover any remaining glass area with masking tape (or else you end up with unwanted etched lines during the wash off time) and apply the etching cream. I learned the hard way that the little crystals that are part of the cream, will make the etch splotchy unless you take a popsicle stick and swirl the cream around mid etch."
"I saw two pins on pinterest where baking dishers were etched with some sort of name/monogram/design and I immediately wanted to do it to mine. I was kind of hoping the etch would be a bit "darker," but I think the only way to achieve that would be to actually sandblast them, which I know nothing about, nor do I have the equipment for."
"I'm not sure if that's from the age of the bottle or maybe some kind of temperature difference, but I'm less than thrilled with this experience."
"I tried etching different glasses from different sources and out of 7 different glass bottles i had on one etched."
Best Printmaking Supplies
Brand new model 15-by-15-inch industrial-quality digital heat press with improvements from the previous model, including Teflon on the heat platen. This heat press is compact and is an upward-opening model, which saves space. Ideal for applying transfers, letters, numbers, and images on t-shirts, garments, bags, mouse mats, jigsaw puzzles, ID bages, ceramic tiles, and other items. The pressure can be adjust easily. 7. The silicon pad can endure maximum 350 degree without any distortion. 8. Teflon coated heating plate: Don't need coated sheet anymore, harmless to the cloth, convenient to clean, and provide attractive appearance.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have had so much fun with it, I use it commercially and it has produced the most perfect htv applications on shirts, sweatpants, leggings, canvas bags, swimsuits, mouse pads.. You name it! Immediately after pulling it out of it's box I wiped it down with a cloth to remove dust from storage and got it set up on a small sturdy desk. I found that 315 degrees for fifteen seconds is the best standard for all of my applications, it doesn't matter if the vinyl is smooth, flocked, or glitter. Just make sure your garment is as flat and smooth as possible on the bottom mat of the machine and it should turn out great."
"Had it for about 3 years , used it numerous times and still going strong, absolutely no issues."
"I was using a home iron before and was simply not getting good results. This is definitely a lot less effort (with an iron, you have to put a TON of pressure on the vinyl and hold each spot for 10-15 seconds), all you do is clamp it down (low effort) and wait for 10-15 seconds. I have been able to use this to fix the shirts that I made with an iron (even after I washed those iron on shirts), and it worked perfectly- no peeling! This press does come with a heat protective sheet which I would recommend using. I just wheel it back into the closet when I don't need it, and wheel it out when I want to use it. Word of caution: open the windows when you use this, as there is a very pungent chemical smell when you first start using."
"I've had my machine for 2 years and it still works great."
"Please read my entire review as I was disappointmented when I first received my heat press but had a very positive experience getting my concerns addressed with Fancier Studio... when I opened my heat press I was disappointed to find the press covered in a thin layer of dirt/sand."
"very cost efficient for the weekend warrior or the small business crafter."
Best Bridge & Construction Reamers
Made to last, the versatile RIDGID 29983 Stainless Steel Pipe Reamer includes 45 cutting edges on the interior cone, allowing for fast, clean inner reaming and outer deburring and beveling of tubes. Every tool that bears the RIDGID brand is engineered to the same high standards of quality, strength and endurance, as was that first heavy-duty pipe wrench more than 80 years ago. Ideal for reaming on stainless steel and copper tubing.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This helps immensely with aiding to get the pipes to fit inside their counterparts much easier so you don't have to wrench on or hammer fittings and risk damaging the pipes- Much smoother deburring than the common 3 blade ones and it feels like it will last."
"Steel circular file teeth appear to be very durable - we'll see about that after several years. Note that according to Ridgid this is for tubing or conduit not steel water pipe. (I suspect that in a pinch it would work OK - hardened steel.)."
"This is the PERFECT deburring tool no matter what your field."
"So I keep one in a soldering bag, one in my plumbing bucket (use with Milwaukee press tool), and this latest will be with me beburring EMT. I haven't have to debur any stainless steel, so I can't comment on the efficacy there."
"Good chamfering tool, worth the money if you run copper pipe, also works on plastic."
"I just received this and tried it out on Type M rigid copper and soft 1/4" OD copper tubing."
"used this on different thicknesses of copper lines, worked very well and really helps you get a clean flare."
"Works on soft and hard copper well heavy made steel."
Best Etching Accessories
Upper case-1/2-inch to 5/8-inch.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"These work well."
"Stencils were a lot smaller than I intended."
"I used these for some mugs that I was giving as presents for my wedding."
"Used Glass etch cream with these."
"Not what I expected, the rub downs suck, you have to use tape so the etching cream doesn't get on the glass."
"The "over and overs" by Armour Etch are great, but these are just not."
"Delivery was delayed due to UPS."
"letters are too thin and don't adhere well for the etching process."
Best Etching & Lithography Etching Tools
The CD contains a detailed instructional step by step ebook on how to etch glass, along with links to make your own custom stencils and five large patterns that can be resized perfectly to your glass size. Over 50 glass etching stencils + the 26 letters of the alphabet stencils.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"comes with everything a beginner needs to start glass etching :)."
"Exactly as stated."
"Was exactly what I wanted."
"I wish, however, that the stencils included were more season appropriate... no need for snow flakes in April."
"Takes come practice but once you get the hang of it you can't stop etching!"
"Worked better then hoped."
"very easy to follow instructions."
"Love my kit it's everything you need to get started!!"