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Onsite Sandblasting

Onsite sandblasting setupThis was the basic concept used to sandblast inside a public library. I haven’t tried this for doing anything at high pressure, only for careful work with a gravity gun.

I used 1″x2″s for light weight construction, black plastic, and thin carpeting stretched across the top as the air inlet. The inlet should be sized so as to maintain a slight vacuum.

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Rejecting the Lie

As a smoker, I might be automatically assumed to be a “self-saboteur”… engaged in a slow deliberate suicide. I’ve even wonderered it myself, having no other clear explanation as to why I smoke. That’s what our minds do with any unknown – is to come up with a theory – something that makes sense. Upon giving it some actual honest consideration, I now have to state emphatically that this is the wrong answer to the puzzle. It doesn’t even really make any sense. I’ve come up with answers that DO make sense, and which I think will be far more useful toward becoming a non-smoker. (Coming Soon)

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Etched Wine Glass

etched wine glass at Glasstone Studio in Vancouver WashingtonFinely detailed etching on a wine glass.

Some of the lines are only a tiny bit thicker than a human hair.(click on the image for a larger view)

Sorry to say I’ve decided not to include wine glass etching as something I offer as a service. I had previously decided to pursue it because of the regularity of calls asking fot it, but upon looking into it, silk screening is a much cheaper way to go and so that is what I am recommending to people.

Etched wine glass by Ron Branch in Vancouver Washington

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