Empower yourself to take care of your etching equipment and tools! Zea Mays Printmaking founding Director Liz Chalfin takes you through the basics for caring for your press, blankets, tools and mordants.
Each section focuses on a different aspect of the etching studio.
- Press Maintenance: lubricating, calibrating and setting pressure on an etching press.
- Blankets: felt uses and procedures for cleaning
- Tools: Etching tool use and sharpening techniques
- Mordants: Mixing and maintaining ferric chloride for etching copper and copper sulfate saline for etching zinc and aluminum