This journal is kinda’ the record of my technical and spiritual journey to produce the next edition in my hand-made journal series on
What is Art?
There will be a lot of techie info on the creation of copper electro etched plates and their various uses and how they will be incorporated into the journals.
The electric kool aid acid test...
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Well, my heart and soul has been dedicated to making electro-etch work as my process of choice for etching the copper plates in my What Is Art journey. After finally solving the PNP Blue technique, I was ready to move on with electro-etching and fine tuning that part of the process but my results
I Would Love to Reproduce But.....
Sunday, March 29, 2009
I got really cocky today and ran an electro-etch cycle for 3.5 hours at .6 amps and 2.5 volts. There was NO breakdown of the laser toner resist - the smallest details held.
I did notice some interesting effects:
The sanding “scratches” get amplified to create some interesting textural
Book’em Dan-O
Thursday, March 26, 2009
OK, I used the “method” described in the last post. I deviated slightly in that I rubbed down copper plate with acetone & steel wool instead of alcohol. I also rubbed a just heated area with a small leather swatch to really press that toner against the copper for overkill.
I am very pleased! I
Another Try At Ironing Out This Problem
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Well, it was too overcast to expose Puretch plates today so I made another try at using PnP Blue.
I had very good success with todays efforts using every trick and tip that has been passed on to me:
I filed plate edges to remove die cut burrs.
I rubbed plate on 320 grit sandpaper to level the
Why Is This So Hard?
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
All of these resists certainly offer great hope as a way to “ground” copper plates but I am becoming frustrated in how poorly the consistency of use is! When I tried to cover more of my plates in resist area, I found very spotty coverage. The plates just have random spots where the toner does not
There’s A Bluebird On My Shoulder
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
I ran my first electro etch cycle with the pnp blue masked copper plate that was described in the last post. There were no subtle changes in etch quality but huge positive (or is that anode) changes!
I ran the plate for 3 hours at .8 volts and a resulting .35 amps at 2 inch gap. There was
Blue Plate Special
Sunday, February 8, 2009
OK, I am not sure if I am using puretch improperly or puretch just isn’t the resist of choice for the electroetch process. So I am off on a detour to explore pnp blue. An overview and good instructions can be found at the Techniks site.
I printed all my targets using a HP laserjet CP3505
