Well...my first scarab is hardly etched...but that's the least of my problems! I remember the first time I etched with Ferric chloride, it was in a class at C.O.D. I remember Marge telling me she was going to try it at home. I told her that I'd stick with using it at school.
I should've taken my own advice! First, my scarab hardly etched, then I'd remembered that I'd thought that I mixed up the lids on my acid container and my neutralizing container one time. I took what I thought was my acid container and poured baking soda in to neutralize. It started to foam up (remember the movie, "The Blob"?...) then, I picked it up and set it on top of MY KILN!!!!! It continued to grow as I rushed it out the backdoor--fortunately the back door is the back wall of my studio. It continued to foam onto my back porch. I picked it all up into a plastic garbage bag and tried to rinse off the porch, so as not to kill my birdies. (I should invite the squirrels to lunch...)
I hope that I'm really not screwed next time I turn on my kiln, and...
back to the drawing board on my scarab...
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