Hi to all who actually read this forum - there doesn't seem to be many ??!!

Anyway perhaps someone can help.

I have just started using the saline etch on aluminium process and while it worked and that was exciting, in a way - the opening which occurred to the thin lines I 'scribed" into my oil bar resist coat really were quite jagged resulting in a rather rough looking and widened line.

Do you have any thoughts comments on what I might try next?

I have attached a jpg of the etched plate so the quality of the lines can be viewed.

As I am on here anyway - I thought `that I might as well answer my own question with regard to the effective resist question for saline etch. I posted this same query to the Wet Canvas printmaking forum. A printmaker on there, Andrew Edwards(NZ) has replied to me and been very helpful. He has also been experimenting with saline etch and said that he found the traditional hard ground to be the best thing for resisting the saline etch mordant. I have posted on my blog about it so pop over if you want to find out all the gorey details.
Nik Seminoff whose website ndiprintmaking also has a forum where these processes can be discussed. He was also helpful to me.

Aine