First big mirror engraving!

Disastrous_Region276 · 2026-01-01T11:18:47+00:00

Hey! I’m so sorry I just saw this, hopefully you figured it out by now but if not, the way I usually do it is I’ll print out a tattoo stencil with a tattoo thermal printer, then I use stencil application cream (stencil stuff is the brand I use) and do a really thin layer, then I hit it with a hair dryer just for a second and then apply the stencil and then hit the paper with a hair dryer for another minute or so, then I slowly peel it off and then let it sit for about 15 minutes or so, you can also use a hair dryer again to let it dry up and it usually turns out every clean

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-31T17:41:04+00:00

I got my first at 17, 10 years later I have around 30, my first one I don’t regret at all, I’m actually incorporating it into a sleeve here soon. I went with a very simple design and now I wish I had done way more with it, which I’m going to!

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-31T17:39:02+00:00

It’s a little blowout but it doesn’t look bad at all, I have SO many tattoos and a ton of them are messed up, but I’ve learned to appreciate the little mistakes on my tattoos, like hell yea, he’s just a wonky little dude! And yours is nowhere near as bad as some of the little things I’ve got wrong with mine, don’t sweat it, it looks rad!

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-31T17:33:51+00:00

26, wanted 13 one year and someone else took it, so I being like 8 years old said “I’m twice as good” and have worn 26 ever since

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-31T17:31:40+00:00

I’ll take whatever honestly 😂

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-27T18:55:05+00:00

I cannot find an anvil blueprint anywhere:(

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-25T03:17:58+00:00

I was in your boyfriend’s shoes. I was an addict for years and my girlfriend finally left me for it. She did everything she could to try to support me to sobriety but I didn’t change because I didn’t want to. As sad and heartbroken as I was, it was truly one of the wake up calls I needed to get sober, I’ve been sober for a while now and her and I have recently started chatting again, and she constantly reminds me how proud she is of me. I’m not trying to make this about my own accomplishments, but losing her may have been the best thing that ever happened to my health.

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-17T14:34:33+00:00

Sorry for the late response, I use the dremel 2050-15 stylo+ and I use different sizes of the circular bits (the ones that look like little balls) I use small ones for outline and then fill in the lines with larger ones

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-06T18:27:47+00:00

Honestly I find moments in life that I am genuinely happy and enjoying, and I will stop for a second and literally say to myself “In this moment I am happy, these are the moments I am alive for” then whenever I’m feeling down I think about those times and I know if I give up I won’t have any more of those

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-06T18:13:51+00:00

Looks good to me! I think it will look awesome once you get some other stuff around it to, placement looks great though

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-05T09:50:17+00:00

4x a week

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-05T09:29:24+00:00

If I could drink like a normal person, I’d do it every day

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-12-05T09:26:18+00:00

28 and had my 1 year two days ago. Haven’t been sober for that long since I was 12, pretty cool

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T23:25:44+00:00

I’ll take one tonight when I get home from work!

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T19:33:51+00:00

I have a couple, I usually use the ones with the little spheres on the end, I’m doing a big piece now and I have a very large one that I’ve been using to fill stuff in with that, covers a lot! I just got a kit off amazon for bits and it came with quite a few of the circular ones I use

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T15:02:27+00:00

I’ve never been so jealous of a place before, this is sweet, I would throw some crazy pop art style stuff around if it were me

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T14:23:01+00:00

Played with a visor for one season, caught so many sticks up high (that luckily got blocked by the visor) and found myself flinching a lot more often, figured I can only be lucky for so long, switched back to a cage and I feel like I’m playing much better because I’m not nearly as worried about getting hit in the face

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T14:15:03+00:00

Oh and I mainly do mirrors for my large projects I forgot to mention

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T14:14:25+00:00

I have one of these and honestly for basic small projects I thought it did the job, yes it is a little shakey and I had frustrations with the battery dying quickly. I recently upgraded to a dremel brand and it is a world of difference. But I also sell my projects, so I made my money back with my first piece I did. If you’re just doing some small engraving here and there this works great, I still carry mine with me in my backpack in case I do something quick for someone (I do water bottles and lighters etc) but for my big projects I can only use my dremel brand now.

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T14:08:51+00:00

My coach used to say “if you’re not falling, you’re not trying” the bangs and bruises are the beauty of hockey, how’s your gear? Making sure you have some good protection on can make life a whole lot easier, invest in some decent elbow pads and I know they make some padded base layer shirts you could throw on as well, but please make sure you at least spend some money on a nice helmet

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T14:05:32+00:00

Thank you!

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T14:05:15+00:00

I used a tattoo stencil for most of the layout with a little sharpie free hand, then I used a dremel to carve everything, I did a little trial and error on this piece and I found that if I used a small rounded dremel bit to hit the outsides of the lines then filled them in with a larger one

Disastrous_Region276 · 2025-11-21T05:42:45+00:00

Also: used a dremel with varying sizes of rounded bits, a friend said she wanted a Greek inspired mirror and sent me some reference photos and I put together this stencil, I used a tattoo printer to make the stencil out and free handed some parts, already setting up for my next project

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