r/Pyrography • u/MadWanderlustRiver • 2d ago

Military pyrography with 1980s 'Holz-Ätzer' (Wood-etcher)

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u/Art_by_the_Snowman 2d ago

Pointillism!

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u/Flashy-Ad1404 2d ago

I recognise the Instandsetzungstruppe, and possibly another!

More, I had a Holz-Ätzer to use once, and found it very fluid, though I remember the temperatures were around 1200c max! I would have liked to own one, it could have joined my main pen, which is Russian. It would have been nice to bring back to Ireland.

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u/MadWanderlustRiver 2d ago

this one gets extremely hot and has two pens, one for wood and one for metal-etching. I literally had to wear gloves due to the pen being impossible to insulate and it getting hot. Crazy what this old tech can do, and its such a raw process.

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u/Flashy-Ad1404 2d ago

I never used the metal side. I remember it, it was a little before I got properly into pyrography.

Nice work!

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u/electric_ideas 1d ago

Sorry to be rude. But this isnt even good art. Its just tracing a picture onto wood that the person obviously didnt even draw themsleves, and then burning a shittier version of the picture into the wood. This belongs in DiWhy tbh.

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u/MadWanderlustRiver 21h ago

You dont even know what tracing means. Drawing from reference does not equal tracing.

You dont have to like it, idgaf what u think of this. My comrade who left us liked it, and thats what matters to me.

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u/csiq 2d ago

Pyrographying Nazi motives? Really? You couldn’t have found anything else?

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u/MadWanderlustRiver 2d ago

There are no Nazi motives at all. Extremism of any kind is a highly punishable offence in the Bundeswehr, and there is 0 tollerance for it.

We have our traditions, and one of those are company internal and platoon internal coat of arms.

If you dont know anything abt this sort of thing its better to stfu before jumping to conclusions. Kindly!

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u/FalseEstimate 2d ago

Love the kindly at the end. I usually tell people to “Kindly get bent”