Etching metal

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How to Electro-Etch a Solid Metal Plaque: This is a technique that has been used by humans for a very long time. Learn how to create a deep electro-etched metal plaque with household items or items from the hardware store in this Instructable. There are no hazardous chemica…

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How to make your own mezzotint plate First, take a nice shiny copper plate and rock the mezzotint rocker across its surface to cover it in lots of wee dots. Rocking the mezzotint rocker As you add …

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Learn a simple method for etching lovely copper jewelry and gifts.

Detailed Acid Etching With a Stencil: This will be a more advanced how-to with using heat transfer stencils to create intricate designs for acid etching. This is a followup to my very first Instructable on basic acid etching. I won't go over all the mixing and such. Checkout the other …

Lots of pictures and lots of info in this one! I'm on another Facebook group called Aspiring Metalsmiths. I don't know about anyone else bu...

Meet Hernan D'Aloia, the owner and operator of Hernan's Custom Engraving and a self-taught engraver who learned using an air scribe tool. - Lowrider Arte Magazine

Further to adjacent photos showing my recent adventures in copper etching, this is the better of the two etches of the daisy design, now fully finished and antiqued to show the design. I've blogged about my new aventures in etching with some work in progress photos etc.

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Moonlight Press on Instagram: "The crackle technique! our upcoming crackle etching workshop is sold out but if there’s interest I’ll do another one, so comment if you want it to come back. This process video shows: hard ground on a copper plate, gum Arabic and egg white to make the crackle solution, degreasing with chalk, applying a rosin aquatint, etching with ferric chloride and printing by hand in violet/black ink on a cotton rag paper. . #etching #intaglio #printmaking #crackle #aquatint…

Hi Everyone! I have been off experimenting with lots of stuff- resin, molds, metal, etching etc. I showed some friends some of my experiments and they asked for some tips on how I did Salt Water etching on copper. There are loads of full tutorials on this subject with all the gory details on why and how this process works, so I just did a quick video on the items I used for the Salt Water etching process. I started out with 9 volt batteries, as mentioned in many of the videos, but they…