Instructional Tools
Tape #4, Designing for
Glass Etching
Many ideas for easy designing, including where to get your own ideas, modifying existing designs, converting block to line drawings and vice versa, and how to create your own original designs from photographs, books and magazines. A special technique is shown using slides of different design elements to build a design with no prior art experience. Special effects are presented along with a complete section on controlled glue chipping.
Sandblast Glass Etching Series by Norm & Ruth Dobbins This series of video tapes, produced by Norm and Ruth Dobbins, owners of Professional Glass Consultants, presents a thorough and complete approach to learning all the techniques of sandblast glass etching. Each tape is professionally produced, featuring an explanation-demonstration approach. Each tape includes full size patterns for all projects demonstrated, so you can follow along step-by-step.
These videos are terrific learning tools for you and your employees. They are also good refreshers if you learned glass etching some time ago and have not used a technique in a long time. If you are a beginner, you will want to start out with tape #1, but if you have experience with some of the techniques, get only the tapes that teach the subjects you don't know.
