Thread: Question about saving etching.

Has anyone ever attempted to save a shallow etching with muriatic acid? Were you successful?

I have no diea myself, but am very curious to see if it works. Keep us up to date... pictures are a plus too

Alright well I have one or to razors that are beat up with shallow tang etchings that I am going to experiment with.

Interesting I'd like to know as well.

Well I can say in theory it would work. I know that if you happen to file or grind through a serial # or something, muriatic acid will bring it back. Yet I have not been able to experiment with a blade to see how the surrounding metal will react...

I've used muriatic acid to rust steel quickly for outdoors furniture, so I'd be very cautious with your proposed method for saving etchings... but very interested to hear how things turn out!

Originally Posted by Suavio

I've used muriatic acid to rust steel quickly for outdoors furniture, so I'd be very cautious with your proposed method for saving etchings... but very interested to hear how things turn out!

Well we are not talking about pouring it on. It's more like taking a q-tip and rubbing just a bit on. I will post my results most likely sometime in the beginning of February.

I work in masonry, and in building with brick you need to clean the wall you've build when its finished. The products that you used to use was muriatic acid. When you leave a metal tool such as a trowel it will develop a patina on it. Most trowels are made of a carbon steel similar to a razor. With a trowel after you put acid on it the tool seems to rust more quickly until you wear that surface down past the area which was exposed to the acid. Our trowels are made with a very similar forging process as a razor. Maybe that makes me too cautious.

Well like I said this is going to be an experement. Like I said there will be a control and all others.

Looking forward to it.