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Nice, Willy! 

Love that particular engine. Not saying I don't like the others -- all of them are great. But the Thew, it just appeals to me for some reason. 

I think the range of method options and the difficulty in any one method depend on how fine the finest lines are on the scale of the plate a person wants to make. Really small scale plates with really fine lines become very difficult, and I think that etching is probably the only way to do that. But it too can be problematic if there are both fine lines and big areas to etch away on the same plate. For that reason, the plate Dave Otto shows earlier in this thread is amazing to me! Hats off for that one. Beautiful! 

I have one more plate I'd like to etch for my lathe, not essential for it, but something I'd just like to have on it. And then I'm probably done forever with that process. Though I like the result, when it works, I don't enjoy doing it. I feel like when it works, at my hands, a good result is largely accidental.

Wow that looks nice! 

Really glad to hear your clock is performing so well, Kim!