04-12-2010, 04:39 PM
nachoman Wrote:I wonder if I could, for instance, take the a drawing of a tender with the rivet detail, iron the image onto brass, and etch it to leave the rivet detail raised above the rest of the brass.
not to rain on your parade but have done a bit of PE and rivet detail would be very hard as in etching you have undercutting and the more material removed the more the undercutting occurs also if you look at a etched edge it is not square .it more resembles a slightly concave edge whitch would be ok if you wanted to have square headed rivets.
jim