Engravers decorate glass by using hand tools or machinery to cut designs or inscriptions on the surface. It can produce original designs or copy existing ones. They work in a variety of items such as cups, bowls, vases, mirrors and glass panels.
As a glass engraver, you should use tools ranging from simple hand tool diamond tipped machines. Also use a variety of methods including:

· Self-etching - which marks the diamond crystal with a hand or point of tungsten carbide
· Punta recorded - complete design construction of points, the definition of light and shadow areas
· Exercise etching - using a cutter that rotates in the handpiece of an electric drill
· Copper wheel engraving - the use of wheel driven machine to shape the court, and a mixture of oil and dust to make the cut
· Arena etching or sandblasting - the use of grain to erode glass areas have been covered
· Acid etching - the application of hydrofluoric acid to decorate areas
· Techniques hot glass - recorded combined with glass-blowing skills to create different effects.