The Lute Back Attachment Volume and the Archanist Engraver, oops, I mean Archanist Etcher

I know I am probably not the first and you can see I never really post to these forums. Can I please, somehow, HEAR the thing that's coolest feature is sound it makes. I have know this since buying it but wanted to mention it again.

My idea: Tie is's volume to ambient sound.

Players could turn down the clutter and strum our way through the wind and ambiance.

Now, the the main reason I am writing. I will keep it precise as if I was teaching one of my students.

ENGRAVING = PHYSICAL PROCESS

ETCHING = CHEMICAL PROCESS

You are literally looking at a digital picture of an Engraver. Edward C Lyons wood gravers are the one I use. With wood, engraving is done on an endgrain piece with fine, select smaller pieces turned to their ends and glued. After being levigated (mechanically made level across a flat surface, not from upgraded gear) you now have a nice smooth, extremely flat wooden surface with the incredible fidelity of all those grains. Think of an endgrain woodblock as an incredibly dense and stiff field of wooden grass. We then take our engravers of different shapes and purpose and we cut the grass to create two geometric planes, the original surface and the grass that's been cut. What remains of the surface plane can then be inked and printed. This is typically how Ren masters (or should I say their apprentices and workshops) cut most of their works (woodcuts and wood engraving are often synonymous but they are different as well). Four Horseman of the Apocalypse by Durer was a wood engraving. Engraving on metal or copper is what you are showing. As printmakers we usually use copper but the printing process is intaglio not relief.

An etching does in many ways achieve the same result in terms of altering the surface of a material but ETCHING refers specifically to a chemical process where the metal is "bitten" by ferric chloride for copper or nitric acid, etc.

Please contact your nearest New Zealand college with a Fine Art Printmaking program or really anyone who actually knows the definition of etching. Its not you, everyone makes this mistake and if POE 2 can make people a little less dumb that would be super cool.


Best,
Stampcat MFA - Printmaking and Drawing, 2011, Private Midwest American University


PS Tie the lute to ambient sound please :)