Posted by Larry White on January 29, 2004
NoelOnce while in conversation with Rick Glawson, he described a double glue chipping technique that he had employed. The client wanted some ornate decorative signage on their pool house glass doors. They wanted the glass to remain fully translucent and without any clear areas. The process Rick employed was to fully sandblast the glass, then mask off the text and fancy borders over the sandblast, then he asphaltumed the open areas (text and borders). He then peeled the mask and flowed the glue into the underlying sandblast. After the glue chipped off, a second application of glue was done for a double chip. The secondary chipping removes most all of the sandblasting leaving a very tight line at the copy and ornamentation. After the second round of chipping, the asphaltum was cleaned off the glass. The end result was etched (sandblasted) text and borders that went right up to the glue chip fields without any clear margin between the two.
I never saw these, but it sure sounded like a good technique. Just a little ditty of info to pass on. -LW
Ron Berlier - Noel, it's great to see you on the forum!Hi Larry I've double chipped glass a number of times mainly for decorative uses. What I like about it is the pattern gets tighter and the ice like clairity of the chip. nbw
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