#drinks coasters

Some glass coasters featuring iconography from the band Starset. Sandblasting, using GLASIG pillar candle trays from IKEA as the base.

Top left: ‘S’ logo, Transmissions album

Top right: ‘III’ logo, Vessels album

Bottom left: ‘Star’ logo, Divisions album

Bottom right: The Starset Society logo

Transformers-themed drinking glass and coaster set made for two married-to-each-other friends of mine. The glasses I picked up at a thrift store, and the coasters are GLASIG pillar candle trays from IKEA. Glasses are etched, coasters are sandblasted. Used glass paint to fill in the sandblasted areas and the little bubbles in the undersides of the glasses.

If you do fan art of someone else’s fan art/fic, is that, like, FanArt²?

Gift art for a friend, featuring the Autobot and Decepticon faction insignia, and the logo of her amazing G1 Transformers fancomic/fic, Maelstrom. Made by sandblasting on a GLATTIS coaster set from IKEA.

Bunch of drinks coasters. Acid-etching in brass. Used the toner transfer method for the resist, with some small touch-up done with permanent marker and/or spray paint. Craft foam on the undersides.

Toner transfer method is using printer toner as the resist. Print out the flipped design super dark, slap it down on the metal, use a clothes iron to melt the toner and transfer it to the metal. Make sure not to move the paper at all or the design will blur. The paper probably won’t lift off clean, so it has to soak in water for a while so it can be removed without wrecking the toner bits.

These took so long. Worth it, but goddamn.

If I ever do something like this again I’m going to use vinyl as the resist, now that I have access to a vinyl cutter.

Close-ups of individual coasters:

Coasters

Steve Jones iconic glamour girl Custom Les Paul drinks coaster. The ultra strong melamine gloss finish is scratch and stain resistant and can withstand temperatures of up to 140ºc (if you like your coffee that way). Available for worldwide delivery six days a week from the UK. If it's a gift, we'll send directly to the address of your choice. We do dispatch as single items but word to the wise, buy two, you halve the postage cost per item, buy three, it gets even better and so on... Respect the wood! Stay safe!

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Collection #1 of our unique, highly collectable melamine coasters - The robust melamine high gloss finish is scratch and stain resistant and can withstand temperatures of up to 140ºc. Take a closer look in our Etsy store. Available for worldwide delivery six days a week from the UK. If it's a gift, we'll send directly to the address of your choice. We do dispatch as single items but word to the wise, buy two, you halve the postage cost per item, buy three, it gets even better and so on... Respect the wood! Stay safe!

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"Great quality coasters. They arrived in padded packaging. Each coaster is identical. They are smooth on top and seem very durable. The image and lyrics are very high resolution. The subtle shadow of the guitar is a nice touch. I got a set of 6. I'm so happy!"

"David was great to work with! He was very responsive and really went the extra mile to make sure that I received my shipment and was satisfied. I couldn’t recommend them enough! 5 stars all around."