MadMike
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EDIT: Originally planned as simply a "help-thread" on salt water etching and how to get the design onto the metal, but I thought I could turn this thing into a progress-thread since it will cover the method of salt water etching and might be helpful for some other members.
The progress starts with post number 9
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Hello everybody,
I know, the title sounds strange, but I will do my best to explain what I have in mind.
Some time ago, I stumbled across a video that shows how to transfer a picture onto wood by printing the picture on this plastic-coated sheet of paper self-adhesive labels come on.
Later I discovered the method of salt water etching (where you use salt water and electricity to etch something into metal) and thought I'd give it a try.
I wanted to combine these two methods by transferring the outlines onto the metal, cover everything around that (i.e., the parts I didn't want to etch) with enemal color, and wash away the ink from the print (as I tried to show in the picture attached, which is not the design i wanted to etch).
The reason to do so was that I didn't want to cut out something of use a dremel for all the itsy bitsy tiny things of the design.
Of course I was way too optimistic and of course I failed, leaving me with nothing but smeared ink on my piece of metal.
I don't know if anyone here has ever tried something like this before, but perhaps someone can come up with a solution on how I can make the ink attach on the metal. Is there any kind of surface treatment I could try (besides cleaning and sanding the metal to give it more of a rouch texture the ink can stick to). The easiest solution to get the ink onto the metal would probably be to prime it, but then i would have the problem of getting rid of the primer before etching
So, does anybody have an idea?
The progress starts with post number 9
____________
Hello everybody,
I know, the title sounds strange, but I will do my best to explain what I have in mind.
Some time ago, I stumbled across a video that shows how to transfer a picture onto wood by printing the picture on this plastic-coated sheet of paper self-adhesive labels come on.
Later I discovered the method of salt water etching (where you use salt water and electricity to etch something into metal) and thought I'd give it a try.
I wanted to combine these two methods by transferring the outlines onto the metal, cover everything around that (i.e., the parts I didn't want to etch) with enemal color, and wash away the ink from the print (as I tried to show in the picture attached, which is not the design i wanted to etch).
The reason to do so was that I didn't want to cut out something of use a dremel for all the itsy bitsy tiny things of the design.
Of course I was way too optimistic and of course I failed, leaving me with nothing but smeared ink on my piece of metal.
I don't know if anyone here has ever tried something like this before, but perhaps someone can come up with a solution on how I can make the ink attach on the metal. Is there any kind of surface treatment I could try (besides cleaning and sanding the metal to give it more of a rouch texture the ink can stick to). The easiest solution to get the ink onto the metal would probably be to prime it, but then i would have the problem of getting rid of the primer before etching
So, does anybody have an idea?
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