First Box Etch

rockgardenlove · January 27, 2007, 09:38:47 PM

Turned out nicely I thought!
Why a goat? Because it's a creamy booster, and goat's milk is creamy, lol.

John Lyons · January 27, 2007, 09:42:36 PM

Not baaaaaaad!

(had to do it...)

John

markm · January 28, 2007, 12:36:51 AM

That goat needs to be millked by the looks of the udder...... $:-\$

tjcombs · January 28, 2007, 12:41:57 AM

that's great! I like it!

rockgardenlove · January 28, 2007, 12:56:51 AM

Quote from: markm on January 28, 2007, 12:36:51 AM
That goat needs to be millked by the looks of the udder...... $:-\$

It is rather large now that you point it out!

zjokka · January 28, 2007, 05:08:58 AM

minimalisms rocks! very nice.

rockg, what did you use for etching? (pnp, picture paper // Ferric Chloride?)

zj

rockgardenlove · January 28, 2007, 06:13:47 AM

Ferric Chloride and PNP.

Anybody know how to get a uniformly dull surface on the boxes with no scratches?

John Lyons · January 28, 2007, 04:26:57 PM

Follow Mark M's procedure in the gallery.
Sand with 80 then 120, 180, 220, 320, 400, 600, and on up till you like it. It will mirror after about 1500. Get wet/dry silicon carbide (black) sand paper and use it wet. Stopping every once and a while to rinse the particles off. Put wet the paper on a thick piece of glass or plexiglass on a flat surface to keep the box super flat. Use a drop of dish soap to keep things slippery and to polish finer. If you skip grit numbers you will get scratches. Work from 80 up with increment grits and you will have a baby's butt smooth box. Seems like a lot of work? It is!

John

sfr · January 28, 2007, 05:02:03 PM

I really like that. It's endearing.

I can imagine a pedal board of a handful of simple small pedals, each proudly emblazoned with an etched animal drawing.

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