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Black Gesso vs Tempera

This is 5% doing, and 95% mucking around and finding out. You *will* have failures, and that’s both ok and normal. Get yourself some waste material, the cheap stuff, and see what happens. Me (Cobey Schmidt) When looking to do some engraving on glass or clear acrylic, a masking of some sort is needed for […]

Photos on Wood

This is 5% doing, and 95% mucking around and finding out. You *will* have failures, and that’s both ok and normal. Get yourself some waste material, the cheap stuff, and see what happens. Me (Cobey Schmidt) Time for a quick(ish) lesson in photo engraving. Sure, anyone can toss an image into their burning software of […]

Acrylic Etching

So you want to try etching/engraving on clear acrylic. Here is the process I worked up, which should at least get you in the ballpark. I don’t suggest following this exactly on something you have a client waiting on, use it as a starting point. Items needed Some acrylic sheet, cutouts, or the like, ~3mm […]