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Watch as custom knifemaker and toolmaker Bob Warner teaches you the secrets to building your own anodizer, electro-etcher, and gold plating machine. With this video, you will gain the knowledge to enhance and color your own titanium used commonly for bolsters and liners. Embellish your work by putting multiple colors on one piece of metal using different techniques and patterns. Both seasoned and amateur metalworkers can use this knowledge to achieve a professional finishing touch to any metal project.
Save money in your shop by making custom stencils and doing your own electro-etching. Bob teaches you to step-by-step how to build a light box for making stencils, and how to use it. He then takes you through etching techniques to add a customized touch to your metalwork projects. Also learn the basics needed to put gold plating on copper for your own exciting gold wire inlays. Take your metalwork to the next level with the tools and knowledge Bob shares with you in this video.
(about 91 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on January 24, 2007 in Knifemaking.
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Good information for titanium. Unfortunately, Bob does not get into anodizing steel or aluminum, but makes no claims as such in the video description. Maybe changing the name to The Electrolysis of Titanium would have been better. The technique seems sound and while Bob shows safety concerning the shorting of the anode and cathode, he does not show much safety concern with the electricity or handling of chemicals. Bearing that in mind, the information on the process itself is good for beginners.
Pretty good video, but I would have liked more information on other types of anodizing. as mentioned in another comment, it only deals with anodizing titanium. I did however like the section on making a light box and making stencils.
A good basic presentation on the process of electrolysis.
Overall I thought this to be a very informative video.
I didn't enjoy this one as much as I did fileworking and Ed Fowler's videos. It was very informative however. Good information contained throughout. I will probably rent it again.
