Sand Carving / Sand Blasting

Materials

What materials do we sand carve? Just about anything, including:

• Glass (glass mugs, name bars, awards, plaques, glass panels, custom mirrors)
• Whiskey, Wine, Champagne bottles for awards
• Crystal (awards, drinkware, custom crystal items)
• Stone (memorial markers, stone address markers, garden stones, pond stones, river rocks)
• Custom LED lit signage, awards
• Multi stage sand blasting

We've been doing custom work and high volume production work since 2001, and our values of Excellence and Continuous Improvement are evident in the way we do things, in order to create value for our customers. Learn more about Lazer Designs.

We also operate multiple state of the art lasers, both co2 and nd:YAG, for all your marking and cutting needs. Learn more about our custom laser engraving machines.

What's the difference in sand carving and sand blasting? To an extent, it is just different terminology for the same thing. Taken to a deeper level, when "blasting" or just etching the surface of glass, ceramic, stone, crystal, or another substrate, abrasive (sand) is blasted at the glass fairly lightly, which "frosts" the surface, turning it white.

Sand carving refers to the method and art of skillfully reproducing artwork onto a substrate (like glass) in varying depths, or shades, and various cutting angles, to create a "3d" image that looks beautiful on its own, or can be complimented with lighting effects such as edge lighting.