Practical guides for people who produce decorative glass — written around the decisions that are expensive to get wrong, not around feature lists.
Buying guides
For shops evaluating equipment.
How to Choose a Glass Sandblasting Machine
The five questions that decide whether a machine fits your shop — panel size, glass handling, volume, compressed air and support — plus the checklist to have ready before you request a quote.
Vertical vs Horizontal Glass Sandblasting: Which Do You Need?
The choice is about how glass already moves through your shop, not about finish quality. A direct comparison, and the one question that usually settles it.
What Does a Glass Sandblasting Machine Cost?
What actually drives the number: working width, configuration, ocean freight, duties, compressed air — and the recurring costs that decide whether the machine pays for itself.
Setting Up a Glass Etching Workshop: The Complete Equipment List
Everything a decorative glass shop needs, in the order glass moves through it — and a sensible buying sequence if you cannot buy it all at once.
Technical reference
Charts, specifications and settings — for people already running the equipment.
Abrasive Grit Size Chart for Glass Sandblasting
24# through 120# with approximate particle sizes and the finish each produces, plus how grit interacts with masking film, working pressure and abrasive recycling.
Sandblast Resist Film Thickness Guide
Five thicknesses from 0.09 mm to 0.22 mm, the detail-versus-durability trade-off, how thickness should be measured, and what else defines a roll.
Brown Fused Alumina vs Garnet: Which Abrasive for Glass?
Cutting speed, recycling life, dust, surface character and cost per panel compared — including the cases where garnet is genuinely the better choice.
Air Pressure and Nozzle Settings for Glass Frosting
How pressure, travel speed, air supply and nozzle wear interact, why banding is almost always an air problem, and a method for finding settings you can repeat.
Process guides
How the work actually gets done, and what to do when it goes wrong.
How to Sandblast Glass: The Production Process
The eight steps from clean panel to finished glass — and why most of the quality is decided before any abrasive touches the surface.
How to Apply Sandblast Resist Film Without Bubbles
The four causes of bubbles, machine lamination, the hinge method for hand application, and what can and cannot be rescued.
Common Glass Sandblasting Problems and How to Fix Them
A diagnostic reference — banding, abrasive under the mask, weak frost, ragged edges, mask failure, drift and breakage, with causes ordered by likelihood.
Computer-Cut Film vs Photoresist: Which Workflow Fits Your Shop?
Two ways to make a sandblast stencil. Where each genuinely wins, and the cost comparison people get wrong.
Frequently asked questions
23 direct answers on equipment, masking film, abrasives, lead times, duties and warranty — see the FAQ.
Product specifications
Full technical detail sits on the product pages:
- Vertical Glass Sandblasting Machine
- Horizontal Glass Sandblasting Machine
- Vertical Glass Film Cutting Plotter
- Flatbed Glass Film Laminating Machine
- Laser Glass and Mirror Processing Machine
- Sandblast Resist Masking Film
- Brown Fused Alumina and Garnet Abrasives