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LizzieLee
Hello to everyone
I'm LizzieLee and I hope that some people here might be able to help me?!
I hand engrave new and used roofing slate - usually fairly small pieces.
As some of my work needs to go outside, I found that sealing it with Adseal Invisiseal worked great over the engraving - keeping it visible when wet without altering the slate colour and being very nose friendly
My newest problem is that my source of fairly dark slate has run out and the local shops (and my local roofer) only seem to have fairly light slate - meaning my engraved lines don't really stand out very much
While I am on the lookout for darker slate I am also considering staining the slate without making it look wet.
Now I figure that penetrating enhancers might soak in too deep so my engraved lines might not show while surface ones might make it look artificial and might stop my rotary engraver burrs working properly? Also I would still like to seal the finished work if possible and the enhancer and sealer might react?!
I don't work on a large scale but I would love to expand my hobby slowly. The lack of obtaining a few really dark roofing tiles at a time ( especially ones that don't shatter when I hand cut them) is so frustrating. Also I just haven't got the money to buy lots of different products to buy and the time when companies send out samples to someone like me is certainly in the past!
Any ideas or suggestion would be really appreciated as I am coming to a stand-still with my work.
I have attached a couple of pieces of my work just to show what I do.
Thanks a lot, LizzieLee
I'm LizzieLee and I hope that some people here might be able to help me?!
I hand engrave new and used roofing slate - usually fairly small pieces.
As some of my work needs to go outside, I found that sealing it with Adseal Invisiseal worked great over the engraving - keeping it visible when wet without altering the slate colour and being very nose friendly
My newest problem is that my source of fairly dark slate has run out and the local shops (and my local roofer) only seem to have fairly light slate - meaning my engraved lines don't really stand out very much
While I am on the lookout for darker slate I am also considering staining the slate without making it look wet.
Now I figure that penetrating enhancers might soak in too deep so my engraved lines might not show while surface ones might make it look artificial and might stop my rotary engraver burrs working properly? Also I would still like to seal the finished work if possible and the enhancer and sealer might react?!
I don't work on a large scale but I would love to expand my hobby slowly. The lack of obtaining a few really dark roofing tiles at a time ( especially ones that don't shatter when I hand cut them) is so frustrating. Also I just haven't got the money to buy lots of different products to buy and the time when companies send out samples to someone like me is certainly in the past!
Any ideas or suggestion would be really appreciated as I am coming to a stand-still with my work.
I have attached a couple of pieces of my work just to show what I do.
Thanks a lot, LizzieLee