glass etching

So here's a story.  Two years ago at the CFX department Christmas party, I participated in a white elephant gift exchange.  I landed a gift of 2 aqua globes and a Engrave-It (etching tool).  "Woot," you say?  Woot indeed.

I was pretty excited for the aqua globes, but had no idea what I would do with the Engrave-It.  And so it gathered dust until I recently realized a use for it.

Another story.  Eucharist, my church, does communion every Sunday and provides a choice of wine or grape juice.  Up until this point it's always been a bit awkward remember and telling people which purple liquid is the grape juice and which one is the wine.

So I decided to try and etch "juice" and "wine" into the glasses using the Engrave-It.  Here's the test glass.  I used the same font as what we used for the Eucharist font.

I think it turned out reasonably well.  If you look closely, you can still see it's hand done, but I think it looks pretty nice.  If I get buy off, I'll etch 3 more.