{"id":2903,"date":"2015-12-23T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T22:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2015-12-23T18:30:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T22:30:34","slug":"preparation-age-etching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?p=2903","title":{"rendered":"Preparation Age etching"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t yet purchased your copy of Mike Adams At His Honest Weight’s Preparation Age<\/em> LP, there are still copies available for order at the btv online store<\/a> or available at your local indie record store. If you have gotten a copy or seen some photos of Chad Serhal’s\u00a0very excellent etching, you may want to know more about it all.\u00a0Mike made a short post<\/a> and\u00a0Mike and Chad have finished a video documenting the process.<\/p>\n

The pinball-machine design was created and etched by my friend Chad Serhal. The vinyl manufacturing plant sent a blank lacquer<\/a> to Chad, who carved the design into the lacquer using some exacto knives and other sharp tools. After that, the lacquer was plated with nickel and a stamper was made. From there, the stamper was used to press the design into each copy of the vinyl record.<\/p>\n

This was Chad\u2019s first ever lacquer\/vinyl etching (though I\u2019ve seen him do some pretty outstanding wood carvings before). He lamented to me that there were no instructional or how-to videos online about vinyl etching (it\u2019s mostly done by lasers these days, not people\u2019s hands). So, Chad and I made this video to put online in case some other luddites ever need to stumble upon it for reference in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n