Various Sizes Etching Intaglio Printmaking Copper Zinc PlateEdward Lyons Mezzo-tint Rocker in Various Sizes
By working the rocker (with a rocking motion) over a copper/zinc plate in a criss-cross fashion one creates burrs that will trap the ink to produce rich velvety black tones unequaled in any other intaglio process.
These tools come in standard width sizes 1/2, 1, 2, 2 ½ inches wide. The gauge (screen) sizes are available in Fine (100) lines per inch.
Rockers have stained birch handles and made with the highest quality high carbon tool steel, EC Lyons rockers are known world wide as the finest mezzotint rockers available.