Etched Plates for Roller Printing

November 21st, 2008

I have etched some large plates with continuous patterns for roller printing onto sterling silver.
I used Ferric Chloride to etch these plates as the setup I had for the Battery etching was to small for these pieces.

The patterns I have used on these pieces are large and bold lines, the etch is deep, half the thickness of the sheet so that it will give a better impression on the sterling silver. The resist used on all these pieces was the PNP Paper.

This first piece is copper sheet that has been etched with geometric pattern. I have read in some books that copper does not work as the master for roller printing and yet some people say that it does work. So I figured I would give it a go and see what happens. I will be roller printing tommorrow so I will show the results then.

Etched Copper Sheet

This second piece is a Brass sheet that has been etched with a geometric pattern. Brass is supposed to be the best metal to use to roller print onto sterling silver.

Etched Brass Plate for Roller Printing

This last piece was an experiment because I wanted to see what would happen. It is an etched sheet of Aluminium. WEllllllll I etched it in Ferric Chloride and it took a whole 1 minute to get a nice deep etch. It also bubbled lots, I quickly got it out of the solution as I didn’t know what was going to happen. You will see in the image below that the corner of the sheet is wearing away. Well I think if I had left the whole piece in the Ferric Chloride any longer it would have eaten through the whole thing. I think I will go back to roller printing onto aluminium.

Etched aluminium sheet

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Etching Nickel Silver

November 16th, 2008

These two pieces are etched Nickel Silver . I etched them using the Battery and Salt water solution.
The resist I used was the PNP paper.
You will see on the floral one that the image is a little blotchy this was becasue the resist had started to wear away. I don’t think it had properly adhered to the metal. Possible reasons for this occuring could be that I didn’t Iron the PNP paper enough and or that my surface was not 100% clean before I put the image on the metal.

Etched Nickel Silver

I still need to do some more work on these pieces like shape them as you can see they are not very round at the moment. They also need some more polishing.

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Glass Cabochon Sale

November 12th, 2008

Dichroic Glass Cabochons

Having a little pre christmas sale on all my glass cabochons.

25 % off all glass cabochons. Discount will automatically be taken off when you are checking out.

See Glass Cabochons Here

Sale will continue until the end of November.

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Coffee….mmmmm

November 11th, 2008

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Etching Shibuichi

November 9th, 2008

Here is a sample of the shibuichi 25% that I etched using the Battery and saltwater method. I wasn’t sure how this would work as it has 25% silver in the metal. To my suprise it did work. I used PNP paper as a resist, the etch was a little rustic and not as clean and sharp as I got on the copper.

The etching did take a little longer then the copper pieces, I am assuming this was due to the silver content.

I think once this piece is cleaned up and patinaed then I think it will look alot better. If I manage to get some blues onto it than I think it will add to the rustic feel of the piece.

Etched Shibuichi