Does anyone here do glass etching like this?  Its a process of etching with a sandblaster instead of what most people do with hobby cream.  I think it looks much better.  You can etch glass mugs and car windows.  Some people call it engraving also.  Kinda cool.  Has anyone done this before?  Let me know what you think about this as a hobby.  

 I've only done glass etching with the cream. The final product is beautiful but hated working with those chemicals. It sounds like an expensive hobby; if you were looking into selling your projects that might make up for the cost of the equipment.  Edey

Yeah, but the cream isn't too hazardous.  It really gets hazardous when you use the full blown hydrofloric acid.  The glass etching cream is a diluted form of the hydrofloric acid so its not as dangerous but still need to have ventalation and wear safety clothes.  I enjoy working with a sandblaster because you can sandcarve a 3 dimensional look into the glass, but I have used etching cream a few times also.  What kind of etchings did you do?  For glass cups, mirrors, or windows?

Once a year, our Relief Society (women's auxiliary), has a craft day, & a couple of years ago, one of the choices was etched glass. (There are usually 6 or 8 choices - things one could use for Christmas gifts, etc)  I think the etching choices were putting your family name on a glass baking pan ( like a cake pan), etching a holiday design into a glass plate or doing water goblets with a little tree. They used the cream method.

It seemed practical - I mean, if you take a meal over to someone, it labels the dish for return.I didn't do it because I had already etched my name into a couple of metal cake pans I use to take in meals when someone need help.

there a couple that come to the folk school who do that do beautiful glass etching they do beautiful work they teach a glass my DH took the class he etched me a set of bowl and beautiful tray ..

 awesome, there is so many choices of items to etch.  Also I have seen a tutorial of the dish pans being etched somewhere.  Is there a website for the Relief Society?

My mother and DD17 have done glass etching with the cream.  The sandblasting route is more expensive - are you planning to turn this into a potential source of income.  If you aren't, I'd suggest sticking with the cream method.

DD bought reusuable stencils - a bit more expensive that the single-use stencils but well worth the money.  DD etched some dollar store wine glasses as a Christmas gift for her "other mom," her best friend's mom.  She loved them

 The one time I did the etching was on a beautiful beveled glass jewelry box. The top square of the glass was etched in preparation for painting on a floral design, as at the time painting was my favored hobby. I never finished it; the teacher dropped the class early and I wasn't sure how to finish it. Edey

 timzagain, that is true that the sandblaster route is more expensive but it looks so much better.  Then if you use a pressure pot sandblaster you can do sandcarving.  All equipment out there does have a high price, but you can get lower cost supplies also.  If you already have a air compress, I would consider doing the sandblaster route (that is if your planning on doing this every once in awhile).  Also, there is the option of using a small sandblasting set up (you know the small air compressors with micro sandblasters but this would be for small items).

 Edey, do you mean you etched the glass design and then were going to color it in with paint?  If so, I am curious to know what kind of paint you were going to use.  At least if you got that far with picking out the paint.