Good Day To Do Acid Etching [Pictures]

[mattchibi]

So I decided to use my day off today to experiment with some acid etching and I also thought it might be interesting to photo document the process. Im sure most of you know the process of acid etching so I wont bore you with the details. Heres a list of what I used:

-two old s&w knives
-ferric chloride
-nail polish
-wire brush
-hot water
-optional: hair dryer or heat gun (use to quicken the drying process of the nail polish)

Before shot:

Tools:

Coated Powerglide with nail polish & submerged in FeCl for 30 minutes:

Coated Folder with nail polish & submerged in FeCl for 45 minutes:

Powerglide after 30 minutes, before cleaning the gunk off:

After rigorous cleaning since I didnt have nail polish remover, I just used lots of hot water and elbow grease and cleaned all the nail polish off. Im quite pleased with how they turned out for my first time. Here are the shots of after:

All in all, a good day! :thumbup:

 

[9blades]

Cool man! And um..if you don't mind me asking....hehe you just happened to have some nail polish?

 

[mattchibi]

Cool man! And um..if you don't mind me asking....hehe you just happened to have some nail polish?

Its for my toe-nails of course....





Haha just kidding. I still live with my folks, and my mom happened to have some old nail polish from years ago.

 

[ryxlyx]

Looks good!

 

[pap11y]

Sweet

 

[akula83]

Nice, the patterns are crisp, looks like the blades came that way.