photos in glass

[aly]

Hello everyone, quick question. I typically do engraving and sandblasting, just the other day bought a small kiln (want to try my hand at some warm glass, very excited!!!) But my question is this, I have been asked to do an engraved plaque for a 50th wedding anniversary, I wanted to do something really spectacular and was wondering if there was any way to impose or impress a b&w picture onto glass. I just discovered this board tonight, very interesting stuff! Thanks for any input anyone may have. Hope im not embarrasing myself by asking a simple question, but Im brand new to all of this, thanks....

[Paul Tarlow]

Try searching the board (and the old archive using the link above) for "silk screening".

You may also want to search for mica -- and consider a photo-resist blasting technique where you fuse a layer of mica (such as Pearl Ex) and then blast away parts to leave an image.

You could also try sifting enamels or powders through a silk screen.

- Paul

[Bert Weiss]

Hello everyone, quick question. I typically do engraving and sandblasting, just the other day bought a small kiln (want to try my hand at some warm glass, very excited!!!) But my question is this, I have been asked to do an engraved plaque for a 50th wedding anniversary, I wanted to do something really spectacular and was wondering if there was any way to impose or impress a b&w picture onto glass. I just discovered this board tonight, very interesting stuff! Thanks for any input anyone may have. Hope im not embarrasing myself by asking a simple question, but Im brand new to all of this, thanks....

Aly

There are numerous very complicated ways to get a photo image on glass. The 2 simplest are to get a halftone sandblast resist made and blast the image, or somewhat more complicated is to make a silkscreen and print the image.

Another would be to coat the surface with enamel, fire it in and sandblast away an image.

Much more complicated are photo sensitive binders mixed with enamels and developed to leave a photo.