[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Glass Engraving - Video and Tools

Tony Patti gaffer at glassblower.info
Sun Jul 21 22:28:56 EDT 2013


Glass Engraving is not a topic which I see discussed very often, 

but I found this YouTube video to be very interesting,

starting with an optical crystal glass block, to engrave Hares, by Lesley
Pyke.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKI666b_rM

 

 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKI666b_rM> 

 

Nice to hear her describe all the safety gear she uses.

 

It is a 17 minute video, and has a bit of the sound of being in a dentist
office,

but if you can get beyond that, it is interesting both to see the water
dripping,

from the plastic tube in her left hand, while she engraves with a variety of
tools

in her right hand.  

 



 

And especially to see the design to begin to appear, and the notes she has
added to the video.

 



 

The hares look so life-like when she was finished engraving:

 



 

You can see a lot more at her website http://www.lesleypyke.com/

 

Superyacht engraved crystal decanters

 

So, what tools are suggested for glass engraving? 

 

There is a primer "Essential Beginners Glass Engraving Tools" on this web
page:

http://www.eternaltools.com/5-essential-beginners-glass-engraving-tools/

(I had also mentioned the eternaltools.com website last September, 

they also had a tutorial "Precision Tools for Hard Materials".)

 

Lesley Pyke engraving a tumbler using diamond ball burs

 

p.s. Hares are different than Rabbits, according to this web page

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hare_vs_Rabbit


Tony Patti
  
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