bikemike

Vinyl can't go in the dishwasher. And you know they will do it. Etched is for life. A good sandblaster will also take your fingers down to the bone.

Myself, I use my fingers. 4 fingers down on the front (from the bottom of the collar), equal side to side from the sleeve. Eyeball it for alignment. I have a 16 X 20 so that may be a bit easier. never had a problem or complaint.

Yup, even up here in Canada. Ok, south of you, but up here.

Then after cleanup. Dakota gets better pics. And, we got the same mugs!!!!

This would be stage 1. (bit more masking)

That is the etch I try to get. Has a special look to it.

The cream does hold up. It is not very deep, as in almost cant feel it. You do need thick stuff to play with sand, especially your eyes. That stuff gets everywhere. But, that cream is strong enough to eat glass. Very toxic and will eat your skin. The best of 2 evils? I like the sand. NOT play sand. that stuff will kill you from your lungs out.

removed.

Cream is ok. Sand lets you decide if you want a deep etch or something a bit smother. You can also change the grit and get the rough finish. Depends on what you want to accomplish. Heavy beer mugs I like the rough deep etch for that man kind of thing.

If you want the "WHAT? I do what now?" thread, it is here.

Glass etching. Weed your vinyl the opposite of what you want, put it on the glass, mask the rest off with masking tape and blast. Lots of info on the forum on settings and such.

Mine shows up in the application manager. Pretty sure the graphtec site shows where it shows in AI.

Once installed it should show up in your plugins. That is the corel way, AI should be close to the same.

Made this for the young daughter. She said "it is too cute to put on right now" (she's 5) Whatever that means.

Easy, for valentines day you need an 80gal compressor and a sand blast cabinet. Bit overboard on the 80 gal, but then she can buy you air tools to fix her car.

Put this up for my young daughter. Oscar Wilde quote.

Same thing, just mirror the image and press. With HTV

All them years in engineering and the first thing out of there mouths was "did you turn it off and back on?" Drove me nuts!

Wow, did you used to work in IT? You should. LOL

I'm with wildgoose. As a retired aerospace designer I would say go with the best you can afford. Did we get off track somehow?

I think you got it.

perfect example.

Actually, the shape of the nozzle is very important and the calculations for it are not simple. Need to take fuel mixture, nozzle shape and flow into consideration. I think the actual term we are looking for is "It's not rocket surgery"

LOL on the fans. I hear ya on the power bills. Surprising they don't have some charge for overloading the grid when you go away.

Ya, not normal with all that open. I do the same, just not to that extreme. Do you turn the furnace down when you got all that running or is it just automatic???? And yes, a cheap thing would run the cutter no problem.