SODIUM CATHODE

Sodium Cathode is a metal etching company specializing in metal guitar pick guards, but we are in it for the money. You have an etching job? Ask us. YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE... Yes, our name is a weird name - kinda steampunk, vaguely science-y. What does it mean?... The process we use to add artwork to aluminum pickguards requires a solution of free ions suspended in water. We then mask off the artwork on the pickguard and submerge it in the solution. A second, sacrificial piece of scrap metal is added to the solution. After they are submerged, we add an electrical charge to the two pieces -- the anode (positive charge) is added to the pickguard to attract the corrosive ions, and the cathode (negative charge) is added to the sacrificial metal to attract the non-corrosive metallic ions.