ERNIE'S BEADBLASTED MARINE PANEL

Here are two images of the beadblasted piece that my daughter and I did together. The glass is a French flashed glass, red on gold. You can tell that the glass has varying depths of red, deeper at the top and more of the traditional red near the middle and bottom. The emblem is the Marine logo - eagle, globe and anchor. The pattern was done by a friend of mine who owns a graphic business, printed on 10 mil sandblast resist. After I applied it to the glass, my older daughter Lisa, hand cut the stencil. I then used a bead blaster, (glass beads) to blast the uncovered areas. The areas that you see as gold are the areas where the red has been blasted away. I used a pressure blaster at 25# pressure, it worked great. I tried several different pressure setting on a test piece and decided that 25# would do the job and not blow the resist off the glass. The beads give a nice satin finish to the area being blasted, much more so than sand.