Norton White Tile Engraving – 3 Years Later: What I Wish I Knew Sooner!
“It’s been three years since I first tried the Norton White Tile engraving method, and I finally circled back to revisit it — and wow, I’ve learned a lot. One of the biggest things? Don’t over complicate it. The winning formula is dead simple: 1 part titanium dioxide to 3 parts water or alcohol. That’s it. Forget the glue — not needed. The real game-changer was using an airbrush for application, and to my surprise, water worked just as well as alcohol. Want to make your life even easier? Add a few drops of food dye to help with visibility while spraying. And if you’re doing this indoors, a vent hood for your airbrush setup is well worth it.”
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(Do not over mix only that a few seconds)
Lasers I used in the making of this video xTool S1 both 20 and 40 watt and the xTool F1 Ultra but any Blue Light Laser Can do this process. I love xTool lasers they are very user friendly. 20 watt or above I would recommend but a 10 watt will also work.
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Timeline:
4:25 Fist Spray of Alcohol and Titanium Dioxide Mix and test on 40 Watt
4:45 Results
5:00 20 watt S1 test
5:23 Results full tile engrave for Black Color
5:45 Cleaning Off
6:10 Food Die Do You Need it
6:45 painting with the addition of food dye
7:40 Easy to line your tile up line up in the S1
9:00 Big Fail on Glazed Tile What went wrong?
10:00 Not all Glazed Tile are the same
12:00 Another Fail on a Glazed Tile
14:35 Let Try Water and Titanium Dioxide
18:25 My DIY Spray Vent Hood
19:53 Painting with Water
25:28 Engraving a Javis Mode Image
26:55 Jarvis results
28:21 Tile finish options
29:25 Lets go ALL BLACK inverted engraving
31:30 Need more power lets adjust
33:00 Final thought and tips on doing this
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