[TheForge] acid

[Lynn Emrich]

--- Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:

> On 5/12/07, Daniel Kretchmar <dan at irontreeworks.com>
> wrote:
> Part of Aqua Regia, a period concoction for
> dissolving the "noble"
> metals, particularly gold, but will also dissolve
> platinum. Aqua Regia
> is 3:1 nitric and hydrochloric acids mixed, but
> don't ask me which is
> one and which is 3.

The formula that I have for Aqua Regia is 1 part
Nitric, 1 part hydrochloric, 1 part water. "Do as you
'orter' add the acid to the water"
I make a resist from Aspholtisum (a art supply item
and I'm not sure how to spell it) and bees wax. I
still apply the resist with a heat gun (like a heavy
duty hair drier), sorry Wayne, I still haven't learned
to do it with a clothes iron, for an even coat and
scribe in my name. 
It's quick and easy way to mark your work. I really
have to try some designs some day.
Just what I do,
Lynn



       
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