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New fail while using acid to engrave a plate of metal. I left the plate a bit too long in the acid-bath and lost the beginning of the sentence.

Six hours of work to the bin…

Vine on copper : fail

I already told you about the beginning of my first try in engraving a plate of copper. Here are the next steps with, at first, the plate after a few weeks in contact with vinegar.

Everything was going well, I decided to remove the varnish and then washed the palte with water and soap to remove the last traces of white spirit. And suddenly, no oxyd any more 🙁

No more blue, no more green, evrything disappeared in the cleaning :-((

We still can see the pattern but that’s at all the result I counted on. Just have to do it again…

Brooch

Christmas Eve has passed, one can now open the presents.
And in the box, this is what can be found.

This is my second try in jewellery after the bracelet. This brooch is 3.5cm in diameter and is made of zinc, varnished then engraved using acid.

The white vine pattern is my creation and I added a cabochon of slate.

I’m quite happy with it and so seems the person who received it 🙂

At last, I’m done with the calligraphy of Giovanni Papini‘s short story, Corpses of cities.
I used most of my favourites techniques to do this job and I must say that I’m quite happy with the result.

Embossing on carbon paper

Zinc engraving and filigrees

To have a look to the whole work, click here.

Other close ups are available here and there.

Copper vine

After the zinc, I’m trying to engrave another kind of metal, copper.
For this first try, I chose a white vine pattern.
Here is a picture of the plate once varnished, waiting for the vinegar to react.

Nibelungenlied

At last, I’m done with the “first adventure” of the Nibelungenlied. In addition to the calligraphy in gothic fraktur script, I wrote the title into runes, partly engraved on zinc and partly embossed.

As I was saying in my previous message, I’m quite satisfied with it 🙂

To see the whole thing, click here.

And as the picture is a bit small, you can get à look at two closeups here and there.

Runes

To decorate a text, I started to engrave the title using a runic script.

It’s only a fragment, I will mix engraved bits with embossed ones, I hope the result will be worth it.

Next steps coming soon …

VAE SOLI

A coming event will require that I wear a tie. I already did a few times and there are plenty of how-to on the web explaining the making of the knot so I’m not too stressed.

Being aware of the existence of the tie clip, I decided to make my own one to avoid potential issues while eating, here is the result.

I chose a short quotation from the Ecclesiastes, written in runic alphabet and engraved on a plate of zinc.

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A picture of the paper which was under my lastest work on zinc while I washed up the varnish.

It makes a beautiful abstract work, residue of zinc oxide and varnish on paper.

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness

Or, in the latin version (the one I used) : Exortum est in tenebris lumen rectis corde (Psalms CXII.4).

I used my engraving technique to create this candle holder which is in fact holded by the candle and not the opposite but let’s not be bothered by such details 🙂
The script is the NEULAND designed by Rudlof Koch and I’m quite happy with the result even if, as always with zinc and acid, the engraving is somewhere irregular.