How To Etch Glass With Armour Etch

THINGS YA NEED: Your glass, vinyl plotter or stencil (you can always hand cut your own), Armour Etch, paint brush, paper masking, masking tape, rubbing alcohol, a sink.

STEPS:
1. Get your art together and cut it! Depending on the shape of glass you have you may need to hand cut slits along the graphic to fit the contour, but thats a whole other video.

2. Mask your graphic and clean your glass with the rubbing alcohol. That helps remove anything that will get in between the vinyl and keep it from sticking. You want a GOOD glass seal, so clean it well.

3. Place your graphic and squeeze out any bubbles. This can be frustrating if you get tiny folds, but ORACAL 651 is great for this reason. Push any bubbles that are along the letters, into the open space of the letters where the cream will go. Once that edge seals from the vinyl, its on there good, hence the cleaning with alcohol. For tiny folds that happen (usually when glasses taper) pinch together the sides as tight as you can with your squeegee and again, push INTO the letter where the cream will go.

4. Mask around your decal...drips and fumes can etch on places you dont want, and that is frustrating.

5. Liberally apply the etching cream. Dont BRUSH over it, load your brush and pat with up and down motions, the cream over your stencil. This will help avoid you brushing up UNDER the vinyl.

6. Let it sit for 3-4 minutes. Go back over the cream with more patting, just to agitate it and move it around. Let sit for another minute or so.

7. Take that b to the sink and warsh it off. Dry it, and you should be good!

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