Weird etch.

Bruce Bump said:
I made the part up about the tin foil hat. :)
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Come....on !! That just sucks :grumpy: I was just finishing the last fold on mine and now you tell me you were making it all up :confused: :confused:


;) :D

Seriously though, something that helped give me nice consistant etching results came from Nick Wheeler. He mentioned how he used dishsoap as a wetting agent. Every once in a while I would get an etch that would look like there were little bubbles hanging onto the blade during the etch. By vigorously scrubbing in a dish soap mix that is right next to my etchant tube then going directly into the ferric chloride (without removing any of the soap suds from my blade) I have begun to get very nice consistant etch results......smooooooth ;) no more bubble looking spots :thumbup:
 
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Dawn works good for degreasing blades for etching and bluing. Rick Dunkerly taught us in one of the hammer-ins to use it before nitre bluing.
 
Bruce Bump said:
Ive never tried the lemon juice but I have used vinager with light results. Ive heard it will do a good job but needs to be left in much longer, like about 3 days.

I made the part up about the tin foil hat. :)
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Bruce HOW COULD YOU?

Darnit! I had just gotten some brand new tinfoil, and dug my raising stakes out of the basement and was all set to make me a tinfoil hat in the warner brothers romanesque style (ALA marvin the Martian)
now I can't have ANY fun

I've used ferric Chloride with great results, I've also used Sodium Bisulfate for scale removal and light discovery etches (jewelers pickle or "PHDown from the pool/hot tub supplier) I believe that the suggestion for that came from a conversation with Don Fogg and Kevin Cashen. about scale removal.

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lemon juice can work well, just takes a bit longer

imo lemon juice gives a cleaner albeit less aggressive etch than ferric

that said, i use ferric rather exclusively
 
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