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    good first one. You need more practice though, see how the double layer "shadow" is on the H in Hebert (almost on top of the first layer)... then by the time you get to the last letter, the y in company, it's almost as if they are two separate letters. Easy fix though, more practice and possibly use registration marks of some sort. Hope u take this the right way, only trying to help.

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    Finally got off my lazy butt and did what I had to do to practice on some glass. Made these for a family friend on the $1.98 walmart beer mugs. Used the 70 grit AO from harbor freight. Like everyone said, I am now addicted. I'm liking this 70 grit in the blasting cabinet a lot better than the 220 with the air eraser. 1st thing the wife said was..."great, now nothing in the house is safe!" Then she started talking about her name on wine glasses LOL

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    two questions for ya, 1. where are you getting the glass+stand combo? looks awesome. 2. where do you get the Rayzist sr3000 photo mask? I'm new to blasting and I have never heard of it. you said you used this because you didn't want to weed the logo, well I hate weeding so this might work for me as well. Thanks in advance!

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    Thanks guys I am  glad you liked them. K5, keeping the inside of the letters is another reason that I blast at 20-30 psi so I don't blow the letters of and use 180 ao so I can get in the small lines. 80 grit is just to big to fit inside the small detail

     

    I was using 220 grit AO at like 60-80psi and it was hard to keep them on. So I lowered the psi and it took way too long to do one wine glass! So I went and bought some 70 grit AO to try, but I've been so busy lately with the youth soccer season just starting here and everyone wanting jerseys and shirts done ASAP, so I haven't had the time to change out the AO and try the 70 grit. But, I'm ok with that complaint... me being too busy is actually a problem that I like to have, not too sure how the other "smaller" shops on here do it, but it seems as though when i'm busy, I'm really slammed...but when it's dead, it's really dead. There is no middle ground here.

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    KDM_Freak, just an idea for you, when I first started I bought a roll of greenstar from uscutter and just started cutting things to get used to it. The rolls are less than $15 and the experience you gain from practice is well worth it! I haven't been doing vinyl for too long, just under 4 years now so I'm still a newbie, but I sure am glad I took another members advice and practiced a lot before I started getting a lot of orders. No matter how good you think it looks now, in a year or two you'll see one of the first things you cut and you'll be like "man, I really sucked" or maybe not, I did, but then again maybe you will pick up on it quicker. Good luck though, the best advice I can give is to read through these forums and learn from other peoples mistakes!

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  20. Posted

    Thanks for the link, I bookmarked it to read later also. I haven't yet experienced a craft show, but I have given it a thought. I usually always miss out on things like this because, me being me, I want to go to a show first to see what it's about then try it out the next year if I see an opportunity for me to cash in on something. Thanks again for the share.

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    Everybody says have a Niche so I do mainly 2nd amendment/political stuff, I was posting a bunch of anti "Safe Act" and anti Cuomo decals in the NY Craigslist. Either the liberals didn't like it, or they thought that me being in TN using Paypal was a scam.

     

    Off topic, but that reminds me of online customers who call me because they don't want to enter their info into one of my paypal invoices, so they call in with their info...and I run it on paypal. lol, people amaze me, I mean who hasn't heard of paypal these days?