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    Question: Best bench stone for polishing hss gravers?

    I second the fine degussit stone, I use it with either oil (does not penetrate the stone) or with a polishing compound like Simichrome. I found all my degussit stones all on ebay (needs patience!!), there is also sometimes a coarse version that is not produced anymore. Cheers Ralf
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    sharpening..stones vs hones

    For the Crocker setup I mentioned above see the Meek book (The art of engraving), pages 104-107
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    sharpening..stones vs hones

    It is easy to use a common drill press as a hone, as Shaun Hughes shows at youtube the drill press bit starts at about 5:30 I used a similiar setup to shape gravers before I built my minihone, as I found shaping the blanks purely by hand too tedious. For the quality of the faces and angles...
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    Marius Mellebye - EngraverHand Designs and Artwork

    Hello Marius, I absolutely adore the drawings you post. Technical question: Are they done with AD at iPad, or at Mac? I’m looking for a replacement for Linearity Curve at my iPad, since they jacked up the prices. Cheers Ralf
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    Foot control

    Faced with a similiar challenge, I made a pedal that uses a simple two-lever-gear and just gradually opens a squeezed-shut silicon hose to provide a finely controllable bleed valve. please excuse my German… No drawing or plans are available, as I made after some coarse estimations on the...
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    Parallel Point Length

    To avoid heel drag when flare cutting, I was aiming for shorter and shorter heels, until I realised that a very short heel makes the graver hard to control and requires lower angles of attack. Else it will dig in. I had not enough freedom for my handpiece and fingers. I grind now arround 0.2 mm...
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    an alternative to cast iron and ceramic laps for minihones

    Hi, while browsing the net for 50-60mm ceramic discs for my DIY mini hone, I had an idea. Instead of using a hard ceramic disc for graver polishing, I could use a hard anodized aluminum disc. The anodized layer is aluminum oxide, almost as hard as sapphire or ruby. Fortunately, I have a stock...
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    Some thing different

    So far only for stone setting, where very short cuts suffice. I‘m just experimenting with carbide-tipped microgravers, shall I try one without heel? They where pretty capricous with heels already, until I polished the heels with a felt wheel (radiused the edges) and polished the face afterwards...
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    transfers

    The best translation I found is „greaseproof paper“. It might also be called parchment substitute or vellum subsitute. The type I use is made to wrap sandwiches, as a traditional replacement for cling film. It is made from wood-free paper pulp which was ground with so much pressure the the...
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    transfers

    I tried baking parchement paper, it did work by far less effective than the Butterbrotpapier. I found my favorite transfer method, I could just not tell you where to find similiar paper outside Germany. Cheers Ralf
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    transfers

    just three fresh examples how the "Butterbrotpapier" transfer works. I put varnish on the piece while it was still warm from hot melt glue, so the varnish layer got a little bit thicker than usual and did also stick to the paper. The scale in the photos is divided in 1/10 mm, one can also see...
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    transfers

    My brother DCP printer/copier/scanner makes no transfer at all with acetone. After many experiments with different solvents (aceton, isopropanol, artist‘s transfer fluid, lighter fluid, NC paint thinner, two kinds of brake cleaner) I read that my brother toner is wax based. That prompted my to...
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    Announcement: Iconic Scrolls practice plate

    I like all the different scroll designs very much. I would prefer to purchase the file, as it avoids all the hassle with shipping to Europe, customs and delivery time. Best regards Ralf
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    Announcement: Intermediate engraving class @ GRS

    I likethe design very much. I would also prefer to purchase the file… Best regards Ralf
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    Help, please: SOLVED: Problems setting up my new GraverMax

    For phone calls to other continents, I use Skype. I feed it about 5€ per year, that suffices for all my far far away calls. That would enable you to call GRS without making BT rich. Cheers Ralf
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    Help, please: SOLVED: Problems setting up my new GraverMax

    When you use the handpiece with throttle closed and lower pressure than required, it will knock and rattle like hell. If you‘d like to avoid that range, turn the pressure up to 2 bar or so while the motor is still off, than start the motor and turn the pressure down until the handpiece starts...
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    Help, please: SOLVED: Problems setting up my new GraverMax

    Hi, your air pressure setting at the gravermax is far too low. It needs turning up to stop the handpiece vibrating. You need a certain air pressure to get the handpiece quiet, at lower pressure it will still knock, as the air pressure does not push the piston far enough to the front to stop...
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    Sorry John...I didn't mean to

    Beautiful work! The girl‘s pendant reminds of a classic Journeys record cover… Did you use ink to blacken the background? I live in France. Would you teach me some basics, if I‘d come to the Netherlands? Cheers Ralf
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    Fun Project

    out of curiosity: did You leave the flask empty for engraving? Or did you fill it with something (water, sand, low melting stuff…) to dampen noise and get more impact from your graver handpiece? Cheers Ralf
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    Question: Lets talk about hearing protection / noise cancelling headphones - What do you use?

    I used Bose QC noise cancelling headphones at work (not for engraving) for some years, and at the highest setting the acoustic isolation is so strong that it feels strange. They do work for your purpose, but you have to get used to this feeling. You‘ll also loose some acoustic feedback from your...

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