Letter 8079

How to etch perspex 

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Hello!

What tool do you acid etch with?
Can I etch on perspex?
You see I want to re create the effect of the trails of an ice skater's path along the ice.

Jade Hill
- Nottingham, UK

Jade,

You'd have a helluva time trying to acid 'etch' acrylics as they are all very acid and alkali resistant.

What about using a mini-drill and 'scoring' a pathway? Heck, experts often make up full design 'drawings' of trees, etc., via mechanical etching and then illuminate the bottom edge so that the etched markings stand proud.

And if you make a mistake, ah, you'd have to buff away the scoring if it's not too deep.

An acrylic supply house, ie Perspex in your case, might be able, should be able to give you name of an artist who does this type of work and then you could ask him/her.

Cheers !

Freeman Newton
40 odd years in the corrosion resistant plastics - White Rock, B.C. Canada ... a retirement mecca, they say, close to the U.S. border

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