Prepping Copper for Intaglio Printmaking

[@elizabethasmith4471]

Ground material? Thank you - great video

[@JosephPGerges]

Charbonnel hard ground

[@haidymohamed3247]

very helpful, thank you :)

[@JosephPGerges]

Haidy Mohamed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@macclainfamily3121]

Hi Joseph, I have looked around on Google for something like the scoring tool you use in this video. Under "pull" graver tool or scoring tool I come up blank. Is yours purchased or homemade? Thanks, Cornelia

[@JosephPGerges]

Here it is eclyons.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=171

[@eedgelord1471]

Do you generally prefer grounds that come in the form of balls or grounds that are already liquid like the one you used in the video?

[@JosephPGerges]

edgelord1471 if I have a hotplate, ball grounds, at home for ease I use the liquid.

[@NasserAlhameli]

Would you please till me if 1mm thickness is fine for intaglio printing?

[@JosephPGerges]

You can print on any thickness plate, it’s how the plate is prepped and beveled that dictate how it prints. But a proper etch requires a decent amount of copper material so that might be too thin.

[@eedgelord1471]

Why you sand the plate without water? Am I wrong for always sanding with water?

[@JosephPGerges]

edgelord1471 water will rust the plate, very bad idea.

[@eedgelord1471]

@@JosephPGerges woah, thanks, I didn't know about that. 💎

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@JosephPGerges Copper doesn't rust.

[@JosephPGerges]

@@KpxUrz5745 I mean oxidize