Makers Mark

warrior24

warrior24

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Ive reed the turtioils on etching a makers mark on a knife, but I thought I needed ferric Chloride. The trutiols ive read talk about salt, vinegar and Tsp. I could swear I recall reading you could use FeCl3. Should I just dilute the FeCl3 or use the vinegar salt tsp?
 
FeCl will work just fine. Just remember that you want to mask everything you don't want to etch.

-d
 
warrior24 said:
do I use the FeCl to full strength?
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I don't, but that's just personal preference. I'm also not etching my maker's mark, just doing damascus etching. The reason that I water min down is so that it goes more slowly and I don't screw stuff up if I forget to check it for a few minutes, etc. I'd suggest trying some test pieces at verious strengths and see what gives you the result you want.

-d
 
I just tried it and it worked I used some electrical tape. Now all I gotta do is get some sorta design for a official makers mark. And find someone to cut the logos out. Thanks Deker I really appreciate your help.
 
I've used the battery, salt water, and vinegar etch that stingray posted for my makers mark for a while now. It works amazingly well. All you need is a sharp stencil, and since this is hard to achieve with a razor blade and tape, I worked up a design and had a vinyl shop print up about 100 of them. I can etch about 2 knives per stencil if I'm careful. It makes a nice, deep, really clean etch in about 2 minutes.

--nathan
 
It was a little more than I thought, but came out to about $40 for 100. You could probably shop around and find it considerably cheaper. Also, they actually did some work designing variations of the design I came up with which increased the cost.

--nathan
 
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