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!
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
A article and video about making a pressure pot sandblaster yourself with plans and a diagram showing the anatomy.
I am happy to announce that I will be working on my old rusty 1968 Pontiac Firebird car restoration. I started on it a few years ago and finally got back into it. The old bird is rusty so I might have to get my pressure pot sandblaster out for a few parts on the
There is a lot more interesting things you can do with your sandblaster that some people don’t even think about. I have been blasting for years and I didn’t discover the idea of blasting and sandcarving rock or stone till later on. That hobby turned into working for a business and now to sharing my
You should know that sandblasting can be extremely dangerous. Seriously, when working with it, you should not be “macho” and think that safety isn’t that important. I used to be like this when I was working on cars as a teenager. Below are some safety items that you be knowledgeable about before you start sandblasting,
An explanation of what sandcarving glass is and what you can do with it.
My PAB plans to easily make your own without spending a lot of money and time building one.
There is some discussion about whether people should buy a inexpensive sandblaster or a quality, more expensive brand. I think it depends on what you are planning on doing with the sandblaster, but overall I have realized that some of the inexpensive ones aren’t that bad to work with. Now, most people are thinking
Everyone is always wandering what kind of sand does a sandblaster use. Well there is a lot of different kinds of sand used for different sandblasting applications. Most people automatically think that regular play sand is the abrasive media used, but it actually is the least recommend for a few reasons. It is very cheap