I was first introduced to abrasive blasting in my early teenage years while restoring my first classic car, a Triumph Spitfire. This car was known to have a lot of rust problems and blasting was a perfect solution to help restore it. Ever since then, I have restored a rusty '67 Mercury Cougar and am currently working on a '68 Pontiac Firebird. It wasn't until several years later that I got interested in the hobby of using my blaster to engrave designs into glass and rock. I have also worked for a landscaping company specializing in sandblasting artistic designs into rocks. I decided to create this website to blog about the cool things that one can do with sandblasting, provide information about sandblasters with solutions to problems such as flow, and to write about my current car restoration projects. I also market and sell informational materials such as the Sandblaster Plans which shows you how to make your own and my Fix Sandblaster Abrasive Problems & Modification Manual which can be downloaded at any time of day. All you need is a credit card or Paypal account. I pride myself on some of the helpful solutions and provide a 30 day money back guaranteed if it wasn't helpful. I appreciate you checking out my site. You can review any of my latest blog posts below. Comments are welcome and encouraged!
I recently got this email about thought I would blog about it here to see if anyone was interested. Its not directly about sandblasting media but its similar. The message is below about abrasive stones used for sharpening knifes and tools. They also produce the powder which you may be able to use for sandblasting.
Trying to figure out why your sandblaster is surging or clogging? Well, I have some solutions for this in the sandblaster manual and some simple things to look at below. People have been coming to me saying that while they were blasting the sand will start surging. First you will start out with a bunch
Miniature sandblasters are just what they sound like. The small sandblasters are made to blast, clean, or erase surfaces lightly. So if you have a small project or are looking to clean a one time project, I don’t blame you if you don’t want to buy expensive sandblasting equipment. These can help save you money
I got an email from someone wanting to sandblast wooden beams and it sounds like a cool approach. Below is some of the details he gave me with my responses. I’m doing a project, and wanted your opinion on what would work best. I’ve rented 40-50 year old loft in an old factory that has
I keep getting asked about these sandblasters that have a vacuum cleaner connected to it. Basically, it’s a vacuum system similar to a shop vac that is configured to the sandblaster, and its main purpose is to suck the abrasive back to a container on top of the blaster. This way you don’t need a
Sand is available everywhere, it’s plentiful, and cheap. So can I use it? Let’s face it. Sandblasting abrasive can be expensive when using the approved type, and regular sand is so incredibility abundant in places like the sand dunes shown in the photo. The photo of this enormous sand dune by the way is from
In the past, I talked about the different kinds of sand used for a sandblaster which stated that play sand has silica in it. That was one of the reasons why I suggested that people should not use it. Just about all sandblaster approved abrasives may still release silica even if it’s recognized as a
Sandblasting glass can be called glass etching or even sandcarving and I will show you an example of a recent sandblasted beer mug. I discussed what sandblasting stencils were and displayed an example before which is actually the stencil used for this particular project. To give you more details, sandblasting glass is a process that
Sandblasting stencils are vinyl or rubber sheets that are cut out with designs. The cut out stencils are typically used for sandblasting designs into all types of materials such as rock, small stones, brick, metal, wood, or glass. This is also known as engraving, etching, or sandcarving. Typically the sandblasting stencil has to be a
It seems like sandblasting wine bottles is a popular topic that people have been looking for so I figured I would create this quick guide on how to sandblast wine bottles. I included a bonus in the sandblaster plans manual which also talks about this. Its actually very easy to do and the hardest part
