Thread: Acid Etching

I used Word to generate the text that I need. The fonts took a little bit of tweaking to figure out, but since the etch that I want to replace is just text it was rather easy.

I need some sort of curved replacement for a flat hot iron. I've been thinking about laser printing on glossy paper as the way to go. Just need something hot and curvy to adhere the image to the blade.

Originally Posted by dnjrboy

I used Word to generate the text that I need. The fonts took a little bit of tweaking to figure out, but since the etch that I want to replace is just text it was rather easy.

I need some sort of curved replacement for a flat hot iron. I've been thinking about laser printing on glossy paper as the way to go. Just need something hot and curvy to adhere the image to the blade.

I'm not sure I'm having the right mental image, but the 1st thing that comes to mind is a curling iron (I burned myself on one at my sisters house last weekend, so it's fresh on my mind).

Originally Posted by dnjrboy

I need some sort of curved replacement for a flat hot iron. I've been thinking about laser printing on glossy paper as the way to go. Just need something hot and curvy to adhere the image to the blade.

That's exactly where I was stuck in thinking up a solution to this challenge, the hollow of the blade and then.........

Originally Posted by BigBubba

I'm not sure I'm having the right mental image, but the 1st thing that comes to mind is a curling iron (I burned myself on one at my sisters house last weekend, so it's fresh on my mind).

Bubba! Great idea. My wife has a curling iron and I bet it would work.

Chris L

Have a look at this: Knife Etching.

Though it does show different methods of etching I found the step by step layout quite helpful.

ok, some time ago i used a sheet of galvanised iron to bend wood, I used a jig based on a guitar making wood bending model i saqw on internet, you can make someting similar,, just match the radius of you razor hollownes...

I´m attachin a picture of the original guitar making jig, inside there are a couple of light bulbs (the real ones not the energy saving kind), just heat it and iron...

just found something that would useful, custom cut-vinyl decals... link to a couple of examples...

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I found one in my city that can make me one or two "samples" for free...