[Jewelry making - Article 00351] - Re: [Orchid] Etching Solution for Brass and Silver

[Trevor F]

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Hello Marilyn,

    I know from bitter experience that sparex spiked with hydrogen
    peroxide will etch the heck out of brass. I once made a nice brass
    watch chain and dropped it in a fresh batch of the above. Seemed to be
    reacting a little slow so I went off to have lunch, which turned into
    martini hour and... well suffice it to say that I ended up with a
    chain that looked like it had been retrieved from a sunken pirate
    ship: _deeply_ corroded and etched away. I tried the same solution on
    a brass buckle, painted it on this time using packing tape as a
    resist, and it did the same again. It's crude and the etch will be
    very pitted and uneven but it does work. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.
in The City of Light
Visit TouchMetal.com at http://www.touchmetal.com

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