[Jewelry making - Article 00050] - Re: [Orchid] Etching with Press-N-Peel

[Allan Heywood]

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>       I'm having difficulty maintaining a solidly resistant mask when
>     I etch copper and brass in ferric chloride using Press-n-Peel. Even
>     with a slow solution, the ferric chloride eats through the resist,
>     so that the area that is protected has pitting, similar to an
>     aquatint. 

    Joan, it's not anything you're doing wrongly. I was never able to
    make that stuff  work to produce anything other than a very poor
    "hobby-level' etch - and I've never seen anything that looked even
    halfway decent produced using it.  I would be delighted to be proved
    wrong however because that would mean I could then learn how to
    achieve satisfactory (to me) results, in the process saving
    considerable time and money. 

    Any outraged proponent of the stuff should feel free to email a 300
    dpi jpg to pictures AT netconnect.com.au of something with delicacy and
    depth that they've produced in this fashion. I don't expect to be
    inundated with pictures. <g> 

    Al Heywood  

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