Just discovered this video 7 years after it was uploaded. Impressive. Even when he was inexperienced, he made good videos.

I have done glue chipping in the past and after reading some of the questions on this video. I would like to say a couple things. 1: etching cream doesn't work because it doesn't create any tooth to the glass it leaves the surface to smooth for the animal hide glue. and the glue needs something to grab on to, to work 2: yes it is regular hide glue. 3: when sandblasting the glass the different coarseness of blasting grit gives you different glue chip patterns. also different temperatures and the water to glue ratio give you different patterns you will need to experiment. but this is fun stuff. 4: my opinion: stay away from Hydrofluoric acid... bad stuff... 5: lastly Definitely keep this process away from animals they will try to eat the animal hide that has glass shards in it. have fun

not sure why this was recommended seven years later, but I'm always happy to watch an applied science video and this one is really neat!

Another video of yours where I learn a bunch. Thanks. And your B looks beautiful despite not all the glass coming off.

Awesome demonstration. Thanks for the video Ben!

You always have something that interests me. Often it is something I was thinking about, or planning on doing. We like info on stuff that could help us. This actually might in my situation. Thanks so much, Ben.

Thanks! And I couldn't agree more re Ben's videos.

Thanks! Yes, that is a good explanation. I got some aluminum oxide sandblast grit to do a proper job.

Ben, you're the coolest dude on KZfaq. Your hobbies are so cool, thanks for filming them :-)

B looked amazing.

Great video !!! I just heard about this process from a friend and I've been in the window tinting industry for 30 yrs LOL ,Thanks

Looks pretty good. Like the way the B looks!

That looks super cool!

This is honestly amazing

2:46 "A specially formulated dry animal hide glue" At least Old Bessie didn't die in vain!!

Hey, Rimstar! I loved your wimhurst video. @Ben, your videos are always so well made.

I think that the glass has to be super clean when the glue is applied. I can imagine invisible "environmental" film of particles, smoke, oils or whatever, coating the glass, perhaps in spots. Your glass "looked" really clean, however. Nice demo, I really learned something I didn't know about that type glass treatment. Thanks for your time. Love your science stuff!

Good job, I like how it turned out.

FYI. Unfortunately, the page you linked to has lost all its pictures.

I've had 3D printer beds chip kind of like this when the part cools and shrinks.

I didn't even know this was a thing. Cool!

you can learn more by failing then getting it right thanks there were no fails as i see just pure learning

I have to say that on a lot of channels people in the comments can be so rude. But here everyone is civil. Its a nice change. My best guess is the more intelligent a group is the easier they interact. Ty all.

Informative, as ever. Thanks for the video!

your videos are always so awesome. i wonder what it'd look like if you took a glass soda bottle or something, put something abrasive inside and shook it to rough up the inside, then etched the inside with glue.

Interesting good to know and will give it a try

Got to try this thanks for sharing

this is one of the most interesting channels on youtube.

Being subscribed to your channel is always interesting! Keep up the great work. :P

I'd love to see more on this.

Did you ever revisit this? It would be cool to see if it could be done on a curved surface (such as a bottle, etc)

Nice video, that looks really beautiful :)

Many years ago I made large numbers of sheets of glue chipped glass for many large stained glass projects. I got excellent results with sandblasted glass which I had done by a local glass company. I am quite keen to do this again as I can't get glue chipped glass at the moment in South Africa. On my Facebook site under Stephanie Fassler stained glass there are many projects made out of the glass I made.

Beautiful work and I like to see the "journey" because that's how we learn. Help: I once saw someone put two pieces of flat glass together with what I thought was an acid but could it have been something like this. What appeared after 24 hrs was a snowflake between the layers. Never found it since.

The fineness of armor etch comes from the sand they put into it, not the chemicals. If you dilute it like 5 to 1 water to armor etch, then you can add stuff to it to get different patterns like mica, rice, and it will not be frosty, it will be more nuggety.

Very interesting. I have been gearing up for a glass project (what this project will be, I have no clue yet). But, I have been collecting colored glass bottles, particularly flat sided ones; my favorite is Bombay Sapphire, beautiful blue (and not bad to drink). My thought is to cut/break flat panels from the bottles as the working stock and maybe try glue chip some. Cheers, Science-Mark

This is one of the few videos I understood and didn't at the end of it think "I wonder when he's going to finish his death ray and take over the world". Damn fine video too, very interesting.

that was cool thankyou for sharing

How’s about some sandpaper? Think that might work to rough it up a bit? Maybe a more on the rough side Brillo pad? I don’t know but I’m super interested and I thank you cause your the only one helping someone to start that has no clue.. I appreciate you.. thank you!!

I thought you wanted to glue chipped glass back together and would have loved to see your method ;) . I have a quite expensive bathroom mirror/light/cabinet combination where a corner of the mirror chipped of. Reparing it worked really well with one of these UV hardening glues (called "Bondic" here in Austria). As long as the glass chips are "complete" (especially make sure to keep the razor sharp edges of the chips), the repair is invisible (even with light internally reflecting in the glass).

I used to stencil pane glass and sand blast it when I was a kid for bird feeders and just for fun. Regular sand worked fine. If you got thick enough glass you can even undercut rose petals.

Would like to see the silvered glass if u do it and feel like making a vid. Keep it up your always doing interesting stuff

Nice to know about that. But sadly the examples you mentioned aren't online anymore.

Armor Etch Cream. You can get it in any hardware/hobby store--even WalMart. It creates the HF in situ, where it immediately reacts with the glass. There's not a huge health hazard.

Thanks... That was very interesting... Good presentation, especially for the novice who may want to try but doesn't have all the equipment... I personally love the way the B came out... Totally acceptable... And the scraped one worked well, too... too bad about the other one... Anyways, impressive... :-}

I wonder if heat treating the glass would have effect on the quality of chipped structure. Differently heat treated glass might have different internal structure resulting in different shapes and sizes of chips.

I realize I am commenting on an older video, but I just discovered your totally fascinating channel (it beats the s**t out of the Golf Channel!)... I'm thinking the acid etched sample didn't chip at all be cause if the principle of this process is chipping, then it must be initiated at the edges of micro-chips left from blasting or scribing...acid etching relatively evenly attacks the surface, leaving only a microscopically undulating surface, and not any effective stress-riser edges, so no chipping was able to occur...but a very interesting video and I got a lot out of it. Cheers

Ha, this is an effect I try my best to avoid when 3D printing ABS onto heated glass that has been coated with a dilute solution of ABS in acetone. Usually it just comes loose when it cools but occasionally it pulls out chips like your glue does.

I remember when I was a kid that my Grandpa's old ford Model T had etched glass. It was very pretty with tiny patterns in it. I wonder if this was the technique used for that.

Regular sand would have also textured the glass very nicely. That's why you need the protective film on the inside of the glass in a sandblaster, even with the sand bouncing off whatever your blasting, the sand still has enough force to easily frost glass in a matter of seconds

Do you think this could be done with phosphoric glass?

If you mix too much glue, is the unused glue recoverable and reusable? I enjoy your videos. My brother attends a small gathering of friends once per year to build and show case home-built contraptions (e.g. film and electronics / electrical and holograms and lasers, etc.) and some cooking. I could definitely see you as part of that group. Would be fun for all.

I was wondering if laser etching would work. I suspect that it wouldn't be as good as sand blasting. Would melting produce a surface on which the glue can grip? Is the sand blasting producing small fractures that then propagate to help the glass chip

Never heard of that technique, thanks for showing! I didn´t quite get when the actual chipping occurs: Is this what the brush is for, or does it somehow "chip itself" due to tension within the glue?

Hmm, it works for me. I removed some junk at the end of the URL. Give it a try again.

I think...based on the info in the vid that the rougher the surface, I.E the bigger the grains on the glass the glue has to bite onto will probably mean a better removal. Also it would probably work better if you scribe one direction then remove, and scribe 90 degrees the other way and do it again.

guide me what glue to make and where to buy for pitted glasses that you made in the video. Thanks

I saw a method of lightly scratching glass in an old book that described using lead shot with a little abrasive inside a cigar box. The glass to be etched was taped or fastened to the bottom of the box and the shot and abrasive was put on top, the lid closed and the box shaken. The abrasive imbeds itself on the lead shot's surface and scratches the glass when shaken. I've never tried it though it seems straightforward.

The acid etched glass has only a tiny layer altered and that is why it didn't work. It does not break the surface tension of the glass and why it is an approved method for etching glass such as in wind shields, auto glass and safety glass.

When you put all the projects Ben has shown interest in, you do wonder what crazy futuristic invention he will eventually build. I wonder if he has some secret plan for that Delorian he has....

Should be in principle - what is gotten afterwards is pretty much the same as before. Dissolve in a bit more hot water, and then pour through a seive, to remove most of the glass. Dry it out to the right thickness, and you can go again. Do be careful - the glass flakes should be disposed of properly.

so can i use very thick gelatin as chipping glue? it might be cheaper , and probably easier to get hold of.

omg you've got to be kidding man this looks so nice really. what glue are you using and whats the best glue for this job?

I thought I would try a dremel with a sanding drum, maybe diamond bit, or both seeing as though I dont have a sand blaster

How did you sand the B without messing up the tape?

Firstly, great videos! Then regarding the lack of chipping on the etched glass. Can it be that the mechanical stress from sandblasting causes small cracks that actually starts the chipping and the glue simply finishes the job by lifting of the flakes. So with the acid there were no cracks to begin with.

are there any videos with other attempts?

Hi Ben, i have seen glass where drawings where made with wax , and then was etched with HFl acid. Regards Johan

Maybe the acid etched glass did work because the acid might not generate any fracture points or cracks in the glass for the glue to leave up.

would it be possible to etch the surface with sandpaper?

Could you re-mask and do it again? Would that change the appearance?

can this method be used to chip acrylic like plexiglass? or does it rely on how brittle glass is?

Thanx!!

Would sandpaper also work?

What I've read (looked into the technique) the contracts, even to the point that it curls off the glass by itself, and rips tha glass with it.

pretty cool...

Unfortunately it seems the forum you linked has had all its images replaced with annoying ads...

Does pulling chips of glass rip any electrons and produce X-ray?

You used hydrofluoric acid? You're a crazy man! How'd you find it in the paste form?

would be interesting to see this under polarized light

it shouldn't have as the glue needs to be able to adhere to the glass. I assume his beaker is as close to perfect as mass produced glassware can get, which means to glue will not adhere and cause fractures

How did you get hold of the HF?

how much alumina would you need? I happen to have some.

Well, Did it ?

As of this comment, the images are dead on your link. I read it a couple of years ago, real shame you can't see the work any more.

Does the glass need to be a certain thickness??

isn't HF just more for making a frosted or etched glass look?

Did it ruin the beaker you mixed the glue in?

damn i would've guessed this was 7years old video, i was only confused why all the pictures were deleted :D now I know

If you put the glass out in the sun you don't need to sand blast it. It comes off in a nice feather pattern.

Can’t figure out how the glue chips the glass

I'm assuming that he washed out the beaker long before it had time to dry and start chipping.

dry in Vacuum?

link works for me as of 5:17pm central

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I assume that you would not want to use tempered glass for this?

Great video but the link to the examples is flawed: No images of sample work, just 62 adverts for “HugeDomain.com” (yes, I counted them) followed by just a handful of forum comments 🙁

i did the same thing using laser.

I bet that the acid etched one didn't work because the glass was etched too evenly - the glue could hold it, but it didn't have modes of failure.

all imaged provided are gone :/