Tips for making Cermark more durable?

[evansd2]

Someone did just plain wet paper towels too I think.

EDIT: yup, I searched “wet paper towel” and got:

Etch Steel with... apparently you only need a wet paper towel. No mustard or vinegar. lol

After posting about Vinegar and Mustard (Both Mustard & Straight Vinegar INDEED etch stainless..perfectly! See ya Ceramark) etching steel we made a rather amusing discovery. Seems my use of the paper towel was actually more of a discovery than the acids. Thanks to @jgf making the simple attempt to use a plain water soaked paper towel as a control, he found that the results were JUST as good as with vinegar… no acid needed! I guess it prohibits the reflection and maybe the moisture helps… Anyon…

@chriskeilbart (tagged so you don’t miss it)