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Have a customer that wants me to blast a sparadic design of what looks like veins into a mirror. Really she wants it to look like marble, but I cannot ge any of my ideas to look like anything but very ugle varicous veins! :)They want it to look fancy, but I don't know where to turn. I am just wondering if anyone knows where I can get some marble looking vector art? I am getting a little burnt out on this project and am looking for words of advice.
Thanks ahead of time.
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-------------------- Theresa N. Hoying Visual Concepts 130 South Lester Avenue Sidney, Ohio 45365 937.492.2110 Posts: 176 | From: Sidney, Ohio | Registered: Feb 2007
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Hi Teresa, Are you blasting on the front of the mirror or through the backing paint and into the mirror? I can't really imagine how you can make an existing mirror look like marble. If you are doing it on the face you could try one of the really cheap hobby etching blasters and you might have more luck basically freehanding it with that. They have a much finer sand and you can use them somewhat like an airbrush with a hand held stencil as well as draw soft lines. The etch is much finer and softer than you get with a regular sandblaster...almost more like a fog.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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I was hoping to cut a mask out of blast mask and blast onto the back side of the mirror. This is for a company that will probably need more down the road, and would like to have something I can work off of each time. I understand what you mean though and you are right.
Just a tough request for me.
Thanks for your help!
-------------------- Theresa N. Hoying Visual Concepts 130 South Lester Avenue Sidney, Ohio 45365 937.492.2110 Posts: 176 | From: Sidney, Ohio | Registered: Feb 2007
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I would talk to a mirror/silvering shop, they quite often have an antique or patina mirror that might fit the bill. You could also buy the mirror with silver but no backing paint, screen down your own backing with a halftone screen and siver strip the remaining silver, or start with a mirror, coat with chromaline sbx without the sensitizer and screen or paint enamel where you want to protect the slver and blast with aluminum oxide, 120 grit or finer. If you already screen with plastisol ink you might experiment with that as a resist, this works for frosting, not sure if it will stand up to blasting thru backing paint though. I would blast with 180 0r 220 grit at very low pressure. A screen print is repeatable for future orders and pretty quick to do if the customer will COMMIT to future orders
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oops, forgot to say the enamel will protect the unsensitzed sbx liquid resist so you can rinse off the exposed sbx with water and you don't have to expose to cure it
-------------------- Pete Payne Willowlake Design/Canadian Signcrafters Bayfield, ON
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I have been working recently with the Pebeo Vitrea 160 glass paints - the kind you bake in your kitchen oven. Once the paints for baked, you can silver over them without any lifting. This would not be the same as sandblasting but it is easier to do marble veining with paint than with sand blasting.
The paints come in woderful colors but the opalescent additive that they have gives you a translucent effect without color. The only downside is that the glass you are working on has to be small enough to fit in your kitchen oven - unless you know someone with a large oven or kiln that can heat the painted glass to 350 degrees Farenheit for 40 minutes.
It's one more idea, anyway.
Another idea might be to paint the back of a comercial mirror with paint stripper in a mable pattern and then clean off the stripper and the silver and paint in the holes with a light gray backing paint. I haven't tried this - it's just an idea.
-------------------- Sarah King - Angel Gilding Supplies 708-383-3340 sarahk@angelgilding.com Posts: 27 | From: Oak Park IL USA | Registered: Sep 2003
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I have seen a place in kechi,KS that has an effect like this.It looks as if what they did was make a pattern inside a pattern inside of a pattern,because each layer was deeper and deeper this was on really thick glass on a door.
-------------------- Jonathan Harvey Harvey's Signs and Designs 214 N. Main Newton,KS 67114 316-283-2424 (no telemarketers) Posts: 63 | From: Newton, KS | Registered: May 2006
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Another untested idea: take a turkey feather and marbleize the mirror with water-soluble glass etch (available at hobby shops) Rinse and Go.......
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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