Engraving Etcher

Help Please! How do you engrave a name into drum sticks?

I got my friend drumsticks for christmas and I have a limited budjet so I was goin to engrave her name in them instead of hiring somebody. I was going to use a wood burner but I am afriad I will mess it up. I also have a etcher (works good on plastic) but it doesn't work good on wood because of the grain. Does anybody have an alternative, cheap way of doing this?

Not sure where you are, but if you can find someone with a laser engraver (mine is an Epilog) that has a rotary attachement, they are easily engraved with a name, design or whatever you might want that will fit on the circumfrence of a drum stick. I have done several and usually charge around $15.00 to $20.00 a set depending on what is wanted on them.

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ENGRAVING BLOCK 003-021 GRS ENGRAVING BLOCK (MAGNA) $498 Precision, stable work-holder for all engraving. The fully adjustable pivot drag with radial and thrust needle bearings that use the entire mass of the block to absorb any shock and force. Heat-treated, blued jaws, and two adapter plates, (one fixed and one pivot), to take standard engraving block attachments. The ball and crown are hard chrome plated. Furnished with rubber holding ring and attachments. SPECS: Steel. Weighs 28½ lbs. (12.9kg) Spherical diameter 5¾" (14.6cm), height 7¼" (18.4cm). Jaws - 3" (7.6cm) wide, 1¾" (4.4cm) high, 3½" (9cm) opening.

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What You Need to Know About Etching

Another beautiful way to imprint promotional products, etching is often mistaken for engraving. Though the results are similar, the process behind the two are totally different. Engraving uses either a graver (can be a rotating carbide cutter or a diamond drag) or laser to cut into metal and other hard-surface items. Etching, on the other hand, uses strong acids or other abrasives to cut into the unprotected parts of the substrate. The most common use for etching is on a metal or glass surfaces.

How It's Done

Etching Metals

The metal to be imprinted is coated with an acid-resistant substance (also called a resist, it is usually a waxy ground). The etcher then exposes the image to be imprinted.

Traditional methods of exposing an image utilizes an etching needle or an échoppe for sloped lines. Today, most etching companies use photographic means. A photo-negative of the artwork is prepared. This image is then exposed on the photo-sensitive surface of the metal. This step results in exposed and a protected metal portions.

The metal then goes through an acid bath or an acid wash. During this process, the acid eats away at the bare metal leaving a fine image on the surface of the product. This process is called “biting”.

Once the image has successfully been transferred onto the substrate, it is washed over with water. Finally, the resist is removed with a solvent.

Etching Glass

There are two ways to etch glass:

First, glass etchers can either use acidic, caustic or abrasive substances. In the 1920's, manufacturers developed the mold-etch process to significantly reduce costs for labor-intensive glass etching. Here, art is etched directly onto the mold so that each piece cast from it comes out with the image already etched on the glass. This process involves extremely hazardous acids, so most etchers still prefer the use of abrasive elements. Fluoride compounds are the most popular abrasives used for glass.

The second way to etch glass is with a sand blaster. The glass is covered with a template that has a design cut out of it. When blasted with silicone sand, only the unprotected portions are etched into the glass.

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