Sandblasting

Applications

The sand blasting system is composed by three parts: a workstation used to hold the piece of glass, the abrasive, which consists of an air compressor and a blaster gun. The workstation is also used to clean small objects. But this technique, in the cleaning world, has two different applications: one is to carve designs or words into the glass, wood, or flexible materials, and the other is to clean up a surface or remove sticky dirt from it. Sandblasting is also used as a very helpful technique to decorate many things; especially when it comes to glass decoration, although glass can also be treated or decorated by our hands as well, with the use of a sandblasting system we gain more time and the procedure turns less expensive. This method can be used in glass with two different applications: for carving and etching. When we do the glass etching, the abrasive that this apparatus contains is poured at the glass very softly in order to get a darker color, this effect got from this technique is used by many people to produce images and words. We can also obtain, from this process, different types of shapes that could be similar to works of art, we achieve this by adjusting the speed of the machine and changing the angle from where we are pouring the abrasive. The carving method is very simple as well, the glass gets carved by the sandblasting procedure performed on its surface, and whenever we perform this type of activity we need a stencil that protects the parts of the glass we don’t need to carve. Sandblasting is a great technique to do any type of carving work; we obtain different angles of cuts and depths, getting lightning effects that could be very impressive.