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Sandblasted Glass Art

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

As Wikipedia can tell you Sandblasting is a type of abrasive blasting.

Abrasive blasting is the operation of forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material, in sandblasting is sand or any similar material as silica, against a surface under high pressure to smooth a rough surface, roughen a smooth surface, shape a surface, or remove surface contaminants.

Well, this is a technical explanation, but sandblasting can be used for many different purposes. Creating art is one of them. The best example is “sandblasted glass art“. Today I bring to you 2 videos of artists creating sandblasted glass art. Enjoy them and please feel free to explore any other article or resource in this website.

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Engrave Glass With Sandblasting

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Sandblasting is a very versatile technique. You can get rid of oxide from old iron pieces. That’s a rude work!

But you can also engrave pieces of delicate glass with the sandblasting technique.

These two videos give you a perfect example of this case.