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Well, first look at the old way of producing your
design on the glass, ready to be etched. After locating a pattern,
you have to enlarge it to the right size (using an opaque projector
or enlarging copier), then trace it onto the resist on your glass,
then you have to go over it again with a stencil knife to cut the
design out of the resist. This process is laborious, time consuming
and requires a lot of practice to get good with your cutting skills.
When using pre-cut
stencils, you can eliminate all the work mentioned above, simply
by applying a stencil to your glass that is already cut out. Then,
all you have to do is peel out the areas of the stencil that you
want to be etched (the same way you would with a hand-cut stencil)
and etch the glass! Simple, easy and fast!
If you are doing
surface etching, preparing the stencil can take over 50% to 75%
of the time required to finish an etching. You save this time when
you use pre-cut stenicls, so you can finish most etchings in half
the time it takes if you hand-cut a stencil. No matter if you complete
your etching in half the time, it is still worth the same amount
to your customer, so you just doubled the amount you earned per
hour for the job.
But where do
you get pre-cut stencils? What designs are available? How do you
use them? Are the techniques the same for small or large pieces
of glass? What about pre-cut stencils for multi-stage carving and
shading designs? Answering these important questions is where these
new DVD's come in!
DVD
#5: How to Etch Glass Using Pre-cut Stencils, Part I $39.95
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