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Career Details :: Etchers
Description
Etch or cut artistic designs in glass articles, using acid solutions, sandblasting equipment, and design patterns.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Positions pattern against waxed or taped ware and sprays ink through pattern to transfer design to wax or tape.
- Coats glass in molten wax or masks glassware with tape.
- Immerses ware in hot water to remove wax or peels off tape.
- Removes wax or tape, using stylus or knife, to expose glassware surface to be etched.
- Sandblasts exposed area of glass, using spray gun, to cut design in surface.
- Immerses waxed ware in hydrofluoric acid to etch design on glass surface.
Related Careers
- Embossing Machine Set-Up Operators
- Engravers/Carvers
- Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
- Potters
- Precision Etchers and Engravers, Hand or Machine
- Precision Mold and Pattern Casters, except Nonferrous Metals
- Solderers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
- Performing General Physical Activities
Important Skills
- Product Inspection
- Operation and Control
- Equipment Selection
- Operation Monitoring
- Equipment Maintenance
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
Related Majors
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| Art | [ add ] |
| Art Communication | [ add ] |
| Art Studio | [ add ] |
| Art Theory/Practice | [ add ] |
| Art/Architecture | [ add ] |
| Art/Art History | [ add ] |
| Art/Business | [ add ] |
| Art/Communication | [ add ] |
| Art/Computer Animation | [ add ] |
| Art/Design | [ add ] |
| Art/Fine Arts | [ add ] |
| Art/Graphic Design | [ add ] |
| Art/Painting/Printing/Sculpture | [ add ] |
| Art/Photography | [ add ] |
| Art/Technology Studies | [ add ] |
| Art/Video | [ add ] |
| Arts | [ add ] |
| Ceramic Art | [ add ] |
| Ceramics | [ add ] |
| Ceramics/Ceramic Sculpture | [ add ] |
| Ceramics/Glass | [ add ] |
| Creative/Visual Arts | [ add ] |
| Digital Art/Design | [ add ] |
| Digital Arts/Multimedia Design | [ add ] |
| Electronic Arts | [ add ] |
| Electronic Integrated Arts | [ add ] |
| Film/Art | [ add ] |
| History of Decorative Arts | [ add ] |
| Illustration/Visual Essay | [ add ] |
| Interdisciplinary Arts | [ add ] |
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Institutions Offering Related Majors
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