Full Version: Etching Brick
From: Pedaler (ROYBREWER) [#3]
12 Apr 2005
To: Sei (SEIMA) [#1] 13 Apr 2005
Sei,
Chose your experts carefully here; several will likely respond with "I do it all the time."
IMHO, Forget it! you can't do it with either. Job it out to a sand carver.
See one our forum's shining star's (Fred Swartz) response to the same question in the current Recognition Review(April 05) in the Ask the Experts column.
From: Sei (SEIMA) [#4]
13 Apr 2005
To: Pedaler (ROYBREWER) [#3] 13 Apr 2005
Unfortunately I am not a member of the ARA, and thus do not get Recognition Review. However, getting the word from you, someone in the industry so long and someone who sells both types of machines and has a full understanding of their capabilities and limitations, gives me a little more backing when I tell them flatly, "I can't do it."
Thanks,
Sei
Update: They're convinced, we're jobbing it out, and my hands are clean of the whole deal.
Bing!
Sei
EDITED: 13 Apr 2005 by SEIMA
From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#5]
13 Apr 2005
To: Sei (SEIMA) [#4] 15 Apr 2005
Sei,
I personally don't like to sandcarve items with rough surfaces like stone and brick. I will do slate, marble and granite, but I use a company out of the Pacific Northwest to do my wholesale carving on stones. This company is:
Say It In Stones
1520 Woodard Ct. NW
Olympia, WA 98502
Tel: 888-956-1017
I am not sure if they do brick, but based on the quality work they do on contoured stone, brick would be a piece of cake for them.
EDITED: 13 Apr 2005 by DATAKES
From: Sei (SEIMA) [#6]
15 Apr 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#5] 15 Apr 2005
We actually have a sand carver about 30 miles from us who has taken on the job. Thanks for the reference, though. I'll keep it handy if anything goes wrong or for when this comes up again.
Sei