[TheForge] mokume gane up the pattern

[Bruce .]

Not iron filings -- iron rust.  I made that mistake too.  If you
pickle iron filings, you get FerrOUS chloride, colored with a little
ferrIC chloride (which is why it fools us).  When that oxidizes, it
will all become ferric, but that might take a while.

Instead, pickle off all the rust on your scrap iron and  you'll get
(mostly) ferric chloride directly.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
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> On 2/22/2013 10:10 PM, Dr. Stephen A Bloom wrote:
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>> At 09:02 PM 2/22/2013, James wrote:
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>>> ferric chloride, ebay
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>> or micromart
>> ---http://www.micromark.com/ferric-chloride-etchant-16-oz,8350.html
>> $6.76/pt
>
>
> Or just make your own.  Get a gallon of HCl, dump in a pile of iron filings
> and before long you will have FeCl.
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Bruce
NJ