Silver Etching Update

Posted on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

If you read my last post you know that I stained my hands with some Ferric Nitrate while etching some silver. Well that was 13 days ago. Today the very last spec of black has vanished from my hands. What remains are some nasty brown stains on my fingernails. I’m going [...]

Lessons in Etching

Posted on Monday, July 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments

In my last post I wrote about breaking out of a design funk for a pendant I needed to make. On Saturday I started working on that pendant. My first thoughts were to texture the metal being used for the pendant. The main stone is a pietersite (a dark stone with streaks [...]