Marking your carboy

Bytor1100 · Apr 18, 2008

This shows how I etched gallon/half gallon marks on my carboy using glass acid etch.
This is what you need:
1. Carboy
2. Masking tape 1/2" and 1" (or whatever you want, I already had these)
3. Armor Etch Glass etching (got it from Roberts Craft)
4. Flux brush
5. Scrapbooking letter set.

Add a half gallon of water at a time, and mark it with the masking tape. I just centered the 1/2" tape over the water line. Then add your numbers from the stencil set. Then dump out the water.

Add the etching cream with the flux brush and let sit for about 10 minutes.

Wash off the acid with tap water and remove the masking tape.

And that's it
I got a little bleed through with the acid, but my masking tape is pretty old.

TwoHeadsBrewing · Apr 18, 2008

Whoa! Killer...and is that really a 7 gallon carboy?

Bytor1100 · Apr 18, 2008

It's a 6.5 carboy but you can get 7 in it.

TwoHeadsBrewing · Apr 18, 2008

Beauty...i have a 6.5 and two 5 gallons. Thanks for the post...I'm going to do this to both of them!

kaptain_karma · Apr 18, 2008

That looks great man. Is that glass etching cream something you can pick up at a craft store, or do you have to get it somewhere special?

Bytor1100 · Apr 18, 2008

Got it from the craft store. Any of them should have it. It's a pretty common item.

TerapinChef · Apr 21, 2008

Or you can just be lazy like me and use 3M waterproof medical tape. It doesn't mind being washed, and is really easy to mark with a sharpie.

bigjohnmilford · Apr 21, 2008

that's awesome. thanks for sharing

jezter6 · Apr 21, 2008

Hmm....I am definately going to have to try this..

Melana · Apr 21, 2008

I like it! thanks!

Liquidicem · Apr 21, 2008

That looks great. Awesome idea!

Milhouse · Apr 21, 2008

Great thinking :mug:

! Thanks for the idea.

lustreking · Apr 21, 2008

That looks very cool, but what does it do to the integrity of the glass?

Dr_Deathweed · Apr 21, 2008

WOW that looks awesome! Almost makes me wish I had the glass carboys to do that with.

uwjester · Apr 21, 2008

I assume this works just as well for a 12oz brown bottle. It might be fun to permanently etch labels on to those bottles.

homebrewer_99 · Apr 21, 2008

uwjester said:
I assume this works just as well for a 12oz brown bottle. It might be fun to permanently etch labels on to those bottles.

That's a great idea...too bad I don't do labels...

Bytor1100 · Apr 21, 2008

lustreking said:
That looks very cool, but what does it do to the integrity of the glass?

The etching is only at the surface level(much less than sandblasting would do). I have no doubts that it has not weakened the overall structure of the glass.

BierMuncher · Apr 21, 2008

Very cool. Does that stuff work on bathroom mirrors?

I could blur out the area where my "what nots" reflect when I step out of the shower.

EdWort · Apr 21, 2008

BierMuncher said:
Very cool. Does that stuff work on bathroom mirrors?

I could blur out the area where my "what nots" reflect when I step out of the shower.

Would that be because your "Junk is Ugly"? :cross:

nathan · Apr 21, 2008

wow, so nice looking!

kcmcf · Apr 21, 2008

that is a verry good idea, i have been glass etching off and on for 20+ years and never thought of that. but i did think of these.

these are ones i did a couple of months ago

this is a 1 gallon jug i did for wine making

Dr_Deathweed · Apr 21, 2008

kcmcf said:
that is a verry good idea, i have been glass etching off and on for 20+ years and never thought of that. but i did think of these.

these are ones i did a couple of months ago

this is a 1 gallon jug i did for wine making

Wow, those are SHARP!!!! If I get bored this summer I might have to give that a shot. Some generic label on the bottle and leave a spot where I can just put the beer name on some masking tape? Ok, not as classy, but still cool....

Bytor1100 · Apr 21, 2008

deathweed said:
Wow, those are SHARP!!!! If I get bored this summer I might have to give that a shot. Some generic label on the bottle and leave a spot where I can just put the beer name on some masking tape? Ok, not as classy, but still cool....

Everyone knows in order to be classy you have to use duct tape!! :ban:

Dr_Deathweed · Apr 21, 2008

Bytor1100 said:
Everyone knows in order to be classy you have to use duct tape!!

Between duct tape, JB weld, and baling wire/twine, thare aint NOTHING out there you cant rig or fix:rockin:

stevecaaster · Apr 21, 2008

this is SICK!

stevecaaster · Apr 21, 2008

BierMuncher said:
Very cool. Does that stuff work on bathroom mirrors?

I could blur out the area where my "what nots" reflect when I step out of the shower.

lol funny ****!

mr_cad · Apr 22, 2008

Very nice idea. I love the things homebrewers come up with. I am a bridge/highway designer by trade and its great to be part of a community of problem solvers. Homebrewers of the world UNITE!

conpewter · Apr 22, 2008

Darnit, now I need to spend more money to get glass etching chemicals cause this looks too cool, sometimes I think I spend more money by reading these forums than I save from the cool tricks I learn.

Very sharp looking carboys btw

IrregularPulse · Apr 22, 2008

Let the contest for the best looking carboy begin. Is it only in white? We have this stuff called Thermomark we use to etch on glass with our lasers. Just paint on, then laser mark. Everything not hit with the beam just wipes off. Military uses it to mark Humvee windows. Be too hard to mark the roundess of the carboy though with consistency

RadicalEd · Apr 24, 2008

Sweet! I've got a bunch of one gallon jugs that I'd love to do this to, so it would just be a matter of coming up with a decent stencil. Hmmmmmm, anybody have success with that, or is masking tape really the way to go?

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