I'm biding on a job that needs block letters etched into flashed glass for a memorial window. Any templates or clever shortcuts to do this, short of cutting out all the letters in resist? Maybe a computer driven outfit that does this? Years ago there used to be a company that sold dye cut block lettering.
Try these folks:
--Cactus Bob
Thanks this is the company I was thinking about from years ago...
Someone I know was doing this recently, she just went to a local sign shop and they cut normal sign making film to her requirements. Seems to stand upto blasting well although I expect not as well as the thicker films I have seen intended as blasting masks. I expect most if not all sign shops these days have the pen plotter like film cutters.
The sign shops know how to transfer the stencil to the glass too. They'll be handier with the alignments and squeegees. Consider taking the glass to them for vinyl lettering application, then take it home to blast. Unless you're like me and can't wait for things, and bite the bullet and cut it out of the standard resist. I've done some pretty complicated lettering with exacto knike on Hartco resist.
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