The dangers of over etching

[Darkw1ng69]

Hello guys. I have looked all over for this one particular video where a guy acid etched a rebel logo onto his saber and now I can't find it. In the video he used this blue transfer film and baked it on.Can anyone help me?

[PhoenixHawk]

That would be ARKM's Saltwater Etching Tutorial thread.

http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...ching-Tutorial

[rlobrecht]

To save you some time, I have a Brother printer, and found out after much experimenting and searching that Brother toner doesn't work with PNP Blue transfer paper.

[ARKM]

That would be ARKM's Saltwater Etching Tutorial thread.

http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...ching-Tutorial

Actually I did not use the PnP transfer paper in my tutorial, nor are there any videos as part of my tutorial. I appreciate the plug though.

I have tried the PnP paper but I can't get it to work well for me. Others have had much better success with it than I.

[PhoenixHawk]

Opps...missed seeing the blue transfer film part. In my opinion you don't want to use that stuff...its a pain to work with and like Arkm said sometimes it works and most of the time it dosen't. Just get a vinyl cutter like darth_chasm did. Have seen many members use them and they work very well. I'm going to get one once i can afford one.

[darth_chasm]

I was cleaning up a bit and found the container I used to etch DCLS-004. I then remembered I used coiled wire to etch the entire body. I must have forgotten because it wasn't a design per se. No mishaps that go around.

I am currently etching right now. Unfortunately, I don't have any thick gauge brass wire so I am using two plates (wish I had three) connected by some copper wire. Same concept as a coiled wire, just a different config.

Everything seems to be going fine.



UPDATE:

Everything worked out alright using the two plates. But because I only had two plates and they did not wrap all the way around I did turn the piece a few times. This is the result from 1hr 20 mins. I also did a little light weathering to bring out the detail.

[PhoenixHawk]

Looks like it turned out great bro...now i want a vinyl cutter even more now. Cool power supply ....what one is it?

[darth_chasm]

It's a Tekpower. Model # is in the pic. Around $90 on Amazon.

[rlobrecht]

Looks great. Thanks for sharing.

[ARKM]

1 hour and 20 minutes? Dang! Were you only using 1 volt? I usually use 6. Since I use an old car battery charger, I have no idea what the current is. I need to a get a power supply, lol. Nice etching btw.