You don't often hear of the guy, giving the girl power tools for Christmas....but for this girl....it was perfect! For Christmas Kevin got me a dremel! I've wanted one ever since it took me 3 days to hand file the inside of the ring I made from a quarter.
I kept finding crafts pop up on blogger, that looks so much fun, and then I'd keep scrolling to find out a dremel was needed to complete them. So I finally have my dremel! And my first project- glass etching!
This is one of those crafts anyone can do! The hardest part was opening the box, and realizing I had no idea how to work it. With my dad in another city, I was forced into the most unpleasant part of a new tool....read the directions.
Bleck. After that, came the fun part. I gave up trying to figure out which bit did what, and decided to google a bit, and guess on the rest (I later found an insert I had missed, which explained the pieces a little better). I decided to just go for it. I had it all plugged in, and then had second thoughts. I decided taking a power tool to a piece of glass, that very well may shatter and blind me, could be a bad idea without a little more protection. I grabbed a tshirt from the laundry hamper, and decided it would suffice to soften the potential flying shards of glass.
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| The bit I used |
A grape jelly jar was to be my first project.
I have to admit, this could not be easier. Once again, you're reading a post from one of the least "artistic" people out there...the one that still draws like a 2nd grader. So if it looks awful, its me....not the dremel.
The only difficult part, is learning to basically write with a pencil, attached to a tickle-me-elmo (by that I mean, it vibrates quickly in your hand, like most power tools) Once you have that mastered, that's it!
I etched on 4 of the 8 sides- and it looks great! (I think it looks better in person, when you can rotate it to see all the sides!)
Dremel Craft #1 is a total success!
Has anyone else used a dremel for crafts? What have you made, and what bits do you need?
6 comments:
Very cool idea! Good work!
It looks great!
The great thing about any kind of art is no matter how talented or not you are it looks like you wanted it that way :).
Teri
south35th.blogspot.com
hiya i am a little bit jealous of your new tool ..lol x you did a great job of that jar and fair play to you going straight in and sharing with us all too x
happy etching
xmaggiex
That is so cool I didn't know that the dremmel could do that! Now I want one.
WOW I never thought of using my dremal to do that look out now.
Holly
I'm really happy that I found this page regarding on etched glass. So better to keep on posting!
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