Champagne Flutes for a Wedding Reception
This is one of a batch of 24 champagne flutes that were created for the wedding reception of Jonathan and Helen Rees in Herefordshire, England.
The design on these glasses was created to match an engraved cake topper that the bride had obtained elsewhere.
The bottom line of text reads "Love heals what reason cannot".
The completed batch of 24 glasses.
Whisky glass with Jaguar logo.
Custom Jaguar logo whisky glass produced to celebrate my purchase of a 1989 Jaguar XJ-S.
Whisky glasses and wooden plaque with Land Rover logo
The glasses were made to test two different versions of the Land Rover logo to see which one produced the better looking result. The glass on the right used the standard logo and the one on the left used an identically sized negative image.
The slight expansion of the engraved portion of the image, due to the way the glass reacts to the LASER's "micro fracturing" process, is the reason that the Land Rover text on the left looks so much thicker than the text on the right.
The wooden plaque is 1/4" oak faced plywood and was produced with exactly the same source file that was used to etch the glass on the right of the picture.
Beer mug and tall glass with etched photographs (text is still to be added).
The software used to prepare the photographs for engraving is Universal LASER Systems own 1-Touch LASER Photo. When I did these, the correct processing parameters for etching glass were still to be developed, and I had to improvise using photoshop tweaks of the photographs and the 1-Touch parameters for engraving on marble. Since then, an new release of 1-Touch has been sent to me bu the LASER's manufacturer, and the new version includes engraving parameters for glass.
After the clients saw the final results, the client that ordered the beer mug also ordered 2 glasses, and the client that ordered the glass also ordered a beer mug.
Cooler, Shooter and Whisky glasses with AbbyShot logo.
These were done as demonstration pieces to show the company.
The logo was recreated in CorelDRAW X4 using a small image from AbbyShot's facebook page as a guide.
Rocks Glass with Corporate Branding.
A batch of 30 of these double engraved glasses were prepared for Provincial Aerospace Ltd. for their 2009 Training Conference.
Rocks Glass with Corporate Branding.
This was a prototype glass created for a trucking company based in British Columbia.
The design was created in CorelDRAW X4 using a photograph of the logo painted on the side of one of the trucks as a guide.
In the end, the decision was made to etch the design with the addition of the company owner's name onto beer mugs for the owners personal use.
Rocks Glass with Corporate Branding.
This is one of a set of 4 whisky glasses and 4 cooler glasses that were created for an accounting firm in Newfoundland.
The logo was recreated in CorelDRAW from a company supplied JPEG image (and yes, the gap between the S and the B and the B and the M is inconsistent, but that is the way it is on all the company letterheads and business cards).p>
Shooters with Corporate Branding.
These glasses were done as demonstration pieces, and resulted in orders for personalized shooters from some of the Provincial Airlines staff.
All the glasses above this point were done using a 100% etch parameter. While all LASER etching of glass involves micro fracturing of the surface to produce the design, I found that the results from a 100% etch setting often produced excessive chipping at the transition from etched to unetched glass, and I was getting an unacceptable number what I considered to be etching failures due to the appearance of the glass chips. Some experimentation indicated that a 70% etch setting resulted in both a lower failure rate and a much nicer looking etch, so this became my default standard.
Rocks Glasses with Auto Club Logo.
These glasses were done as demonstration pieces for a local Volkswagen Owners Group as a proposed sale item at their annual car show.
16oz Cooler and 2oz Shooter with Cafe Newf Logo.
These glasses were done for our new Cafe Newf product line.
8.5oz Irish Coffee mug with Cafe Newf Logo.
These glasses were done for our new Cafe Newf product line.
8.5oz Irish Coffee mug with Newf Friends Newfoundland Rescue Logo.
These glasses were done for a fundraising appeal for Newf Friends Newfoundland Rescue.
Heart Bubbles Flute.
Simple flute with 6 heart shaped bubbles.
Featured on the We’ve Got A Lotta HEART on Canada’s East Coast! page on Sea and be Scene.com.
For pricing etc., see this page.
Rocks Glasses with St. John's Ice Caps Logo.
These are test glasses featuring the two logos used by the St. John's Ice Caps ice hockey team.
These glasses were done as an experiment to test the usage of different etch percentages in a single design in an attempt to simulate the multiple colours used in the original logo.
