Etching With a 9v battery

[Paddytray]

thought I'd get the kids etching today .
I covered the metal tin lid and blade in masking tape .
Printed out a negative picture and traced it onto the tape using carbon paper .
Then carefully cut the stencil out of the tape using just a Stanley .
We attached a 9v battery with speaker cable .
Put the (+) end on the metal , Kept in place with masking tape .
Wrapped the (-) around the fluffy end of a cotton bud and taped that in place too.
Mixed up salt & water in a glass jar till the salt stopped dissolving.
Dipped the bud in the solution & wiped off the drips on the jar .
then just painted in the stencil till it all went black.
Making sure we kept the bud wet but not dripping as we went .
And trying to go evenly over the whole picture & stencil.
We cleaned it off once and carried on till it went slightly pea green in colour.
washed them off and here are our First basic etching efforts .

not bad for a first effort I thought

 

[Lister]

This sounds interesting, wouldn't mind seeing a video of it

 

[Paddytray]

plenty on youtube buddy .
I have just set up another stencil for my boys tomorrow .
I'll try and sort a video for you

 

[Skaukraft]

Like that. Thanks for posting.

 

[Albus Culter]

That's really cool. The SAK looks to have etched quite deep? If so, that should last really well. The clips I've seen before tend to just leave a superficial patina, but that looks really good. Your kids are naturals

 

[crosslandkelly]

They look great, I really like the sak.

 

[bopdude]

Very cool project with great results, thanks for sharing it.

 

[Qwerty]

Yeah, a great project and thanks for sharing!

 

[swotty]

Brilliant.....simple and yet incredibly effective, thanks for posting

 

[Paddytray]

Yes the Sak went really well and almost 1mm deep :Wow:
This was our first attempt and we are impressed with the results .
It's really simple to pull off.
I have brought some press-n-peel (from maplin)
so that I can do some really fine work at a later date .
I got the idea from :-
http://www.britishblades.com/forums...ching-the-Bushblade-way&highlight=etching+kit
I Thought I'd simplify it and practice before I put mark to a Forged blade .
I did also buy a pen that is supposed to help keep detail but the pen doesn't do the job they say it does .

 

[Bowlander]

I'm definitely going to give it a try.

Be wary of having saturated salt solution around electronics, its instant death for a laptop.

 

[Paddytray]

Yeah he was very carefull and the laptop was our very old one (its battered) it's just for the kids . He had a youtube clip playing showing him what to do .
If anyone gives it a go we would love to see your efforts
Paddytray .;

 

[Dreadhead]

very nice mate, is that the same sigil thing you sent me a while back? tis pretty cool indeed

 

[Paddytray]

It is indeed mate & as soon as I'm well and back working (earning) I'll be chatting you up for some of your awesome leather work my friend

 

[Dreadhead]

sounds good man get well soon aye i know how it is

 

[Paddytray]

How you doing now , you still rough ?


stencil
good 5 mins etching on tin
cleaned up
nice clean lines
Happy Days

 

[Dreadhead]

nice that skull looks the business! fancy trying this myself sometime

my troubles seem to be going in circles, far too much to tar this good thread with

 

[Paddytray]

It works best on steel tin takes forever .
I know the feeling Hamish

 

[copper_head]

Thats pretty awesome, nice work!

 

[Paddytray]

Cheers mate it's so easy seriously try it my boys 8 and a bit of a doughnut and he did the SAK