sample of photo-resist carved stone Etched shower panel - closeup Sandblasted for Mercury Glass Company in Phoenix Az. Designed by Bob 

Heathcote / Sandblasted by Ron Branch for Mercury Glass Company in Phoenix Av. Designed and sandblasted by 

Ron Branch for Mercury Glass Company in Phoenix Az. close up Birch trees 

sandblasted on clear glass by Ron Branch for Rich Lamothe and Chuck Franklin Grapevine sandblasted on clear glass for Chuck Franklin Glass Studio in Portland Oregon Grapevine close up Slumped form by Ray Algren of 'Fireart' in Portland Oregon. Carved fluting by Ron Branch Comissioned stained glass and wire sculpture by Ron 

Branch Designed by Miles Macgregor and sandblasted by Ron Branch for Mercury Glass Company in Phoenix Az.

Etched Glass for Cabinet

January 26th, 2010 by Ron Branch

etched glass for cabinet doorHere is a job that just came through – clear cabinet door glass with a stained glass pattern sandblasted onto it. It’s what we call a “simple etch” – just peel and shoot. Click on the image to see the steps involved for even the simplest of projects.

This is also called a “single stage blast”. It is basically two-tone, black and white, or in this case – clear glass and solidly sandblasted glass. Often the work involves many more tones, or “shades of gray”. In multi-stage blasting this just means that parts of it are less than solidly blasted.

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Moving Right Along

January 5th, 2010 by Ron Branch

Ron Branch sandblastingThe sandblast booth is done at last, which is good – it’s going to be a busy end of the year for us. The website is also pretty much done now, a bit bare bones at the moment, but I have big plans for it.

…and a Happy New Year!

January 2nd, 2010 by Ron Branch

snowing in Vancouver WaWe did finally get some snow, but it was a few days late. It was completely unexpected and unforecast – the weather-folks up here were quite embarrassed. Four inches dumped on us during rush-hour and caused some people to be stuck in traffic for as long as five hours!

The Florida restaurant job is complete, and we are getting ready for the next job, which is another big one – a library. Hopefully for this one we will have time to take pictures.