Etching on Stainless Steel

Do you want to passivate the surface, decorate the surface or chemically machine the sheets?

Thank You for become guide. I wish to decorate stainless steel sheet items by etching for better look & sale as interior products. I will wait.

Dear , I wish to add some great look to my production of interior items by some etching work on stainless steel 304 grade. Please tell me how to make stencil & method of chemical uses. Thank you, I will wait.

I really can't help you. I used to deal with conveyorized chemical etching equipment. We used ferric chloride and different acids.

BTW redfred, SS is easy to etch. The chemicals don't care. And virtually every hard drive head reader on the planet is fabricated from chem etched stainless.

I don't know anything about hobby etching.

I'm surprised to hear that stainless steel is considered easy to etch. Being an uncoated metal I'm sure that it is easier than many things but if any acid could easily cut it I would expect that it would not be so popular in cooking.

I'm not going to be much help either. I've only been involved with measuring the results of etching silicon in making semiconductors. But I did do a Google search and located a paper specifically on etching 304 SS to 2μm features. I did not shell out the $33 to read this paper but this doesn't seem like a bad price. (Remember, often free advice is worth exactly what you paid for it.) I suspect the OP though is looking more for information like this site.