hi everyone Lisa here with JDS industries today's
tutorial I'm going to show you how to sublimate shot glasses so we have three
different versions of the shot glass we have the plain white ceramic and then we
have two versions of glass we have the small and then we also have the shooter
the difference is with the glass ones there is just a white panel that goes
around the shot glass so you won't be able to go all the way from the top to
the bottom on these but on the white one the ceramic one you could okay and
another difference with these is that when you go to cool them you do not want
to put the glass shot glasses into water when you're cooling them off because no
matter how hot that water is it will still break the glass ceramic ones
though you can still put into water to stop the sublimation so you don't get
any blurring okay so some of the supplies we're going to need is of
course our shot glass and today I'm going to do the ceramic and then we're
gonna need our transfer this was printed on a Sawgrass printer with Sawgrass inks
and you can see I have that cut out and we do have the templates for these on
our website and also on our Dropbox site and then we're also going to need
another piece of copy paper you can cut it similar to the same size or just a
little bit bigger than your transfer and then we're gonna use a wrap because
these will not fit into a standard mug press of course they're a little small
we're gonna put these in an oven and to create the pressure we're gonna wrap it
in this silicone and there is two different wraps for the shot glasses
this one will fit both the smaller shot glasses both the ceramic and the glass
and then this longer one or taller one will actually fit the shooter okay so
let's get started so we're going to take our transfer
we're going to apply it to the shot glass and I'm going to tape one of the
ends the first end that just kind of helps it keep it in place while I'm
wrapping this around just a little piece of tape will hold it in place okay and
then I'm gonna wrap this around get it nice and tight and then wrap the tape
the other end
okay next thing I'm gonna do is take my copy paper and wrap that around also and
what this does it actually will prevent any ink from getting back on to your
wrap in case there's any bleed through with ink you won't get your wrap all
dirty and then possibly get ink on your next project let's wrap that around and
tape that end okay now we're ready to wrap okay so how we wrap this I'm gonna
start the wrap on my seam edge and as I go around I'm going to pull this nice
and tight so it creates nice even pressure and I'm gonna follow the
curvature of that wrap and that's going to keep the pressure also nice and even
because you want to follow that curve so that you get nice even pressure on the
tape of the shot glass there you go and you can see it does stick to itself the
silicone does stick to itself but just for some extra insurance so it doesn't
come off when I put it into the oven I'm gonna put one more little piece of tape
on the end here just to hold it in place okay so now we're going to go over to
our oven we're gonna bake this at 405 degrees for 12 minutes okay so here's
our oven you can see we have a thermometer inside and that just helps
us make sure that we have the more accurate temperature because we just
have a dial here to set the temperature and it may not be all that accurate so
that's why we have a temperature gage inside there now your oven may vary a
little bit just depending on the oven that you're using so that's another good
good way to check your temperatures by using a an actual thermometer inside so
we're gonna put this in again 405 for 12 minutes okay we're gonna take our shot
glass out of the oven and bring it back over and now immediately we're going to
put this into this bucket of warm water and you can hear the sizzle okay we'll
let that cool for a little bit just so it's cool
enough for us to handle and then we will unwrap it and show you the results one
thing to remember on the glass shot glasses you do not want to put them into
warm water or any water what you can do to cool them off quickly is just to set
them in front of a fan and just let the airflow cool them off you can also
rotate it every once in a while so that it gets cooled off evenly okay
our shot glass has cooled off enough for us to handle it and they take it out of
the bucket and dry it off and then we will remove the tape off of the wrap and
unroll it just like that and then we will take off our transfer
and the other piece of tape dry it off
and there we have our finished product the color looks really good all the way
on both sides really nice even coverage there these make really great gifts for
just about any occasion you could also use them as souvenirs you could even
fill them up with wax and use them as a candle so a lot of different uses uses
for these thank you for watching if you have questions about this or any of our
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