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The place to buy, sell, or trade hand engraving equipment.
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GRS Engraving equipment

Cafe Interviews Archive

Interesting and informative interviews of hand engravers from around the world. [read-only]
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Cafe Interview with John Barraclough

Polls

A variety of interesting engraving related polls including tool preferences, age, and more.
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Lefty or Righty?

Tips Archive

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General Engraving Books list by Ron Foster

Engraving Equipment

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  1. Air Systems
    1. GRS Systems
    2. Enset
    3. Lindsay
    4. Ngraver
    5. Foredom
    6. Other Systems
  2. Hand (manual) Engraving
    1. Hand Gravers
    2. Hammer & Chisel
    3. Hand Push Techniques
  3. Bench Options
  4. Microscopes & Magnification
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    2. Hand Glasses
    3. Stereo Microscopes
    4. Centering Work For Microscope Use
  5. Air Compressors
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TOOLS

Other Engraving Systems

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  2. Rotary Engraving Equipment
  3. CNC
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micromotor

Graver Sharpening

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  1. Template Systems
  2. GRS and Enset Systems
  3. Hand Sharpening
  4. Specialty Gravers
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Help...trying to turn my inland glass grinder into a power hone

Drawing, Designing, and Cutting

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  5. Cutting Instructions
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General Engraving Books list by Ron Foster

Workholding

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  2. Homemade engraving vises
  3. Other workholding solutions
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Machinist/Gunsmith Homemade ball vise questions

Transfer Methods

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  5. Etching
  6. Transfer products
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Ellis

Specialty Techniques & Processes

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  2. Coin carving tips & how-tos
  3. Knife engraving tips & how-tos
  4. Sand/bead blasting tips
  5. Stonesetting
  6. Background treatments
    1. Punch work
    2. Matting & Stippling
    3. Blackening backgrounds
  7. Sculpting
  8. Ring Engraving
  9. Watch Engraving
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Gold Inlay with drop shadow by Mitch

Metals information

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  2. Suitability for engraving
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Jim Zimmerman's guide precious metals

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Firearms Photography Lighting Setup - How it's done for the Walther catalog

Commercial Equipment List & Reviews

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History - Engravers and their work

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Robert Scot, Engraver 1745-1823

Engraving business tips

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Engraving Business Tips & Suggestions

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foredom handpieces overheating,

Digital Art

The use of drawing tablets and iPads for hand engraving applications.
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Design for an Almar bolster knife

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Fibeflair wrote on Steve Adams's profile.
Mr. Adams, your name was mentioned in a thread on this forum about engraving dies. Forgive me if I have contacted you in error. My interest is in how one goes about making deep straight sided, flat bottomed cells for inlay, champlevé enameling and niello work. It would appear that engraving for dies has similar characteristics. If you are willing, I would be grateful for any advice.
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Di Flair
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Masgrimes
Hey everyone! I'm an experienced letterer, just looking to get a lay of the land from this side of things. https://www.instagram.com/masgrimes/
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I am looking for a used Lindsay airgraver. Thanks
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Brandaddy
I am just starting to hand push and am trying to get my graver sharpening skills right so the graver will cut not stop.I was wondering if all engravers including the knife graver, round graver, and flat graver should all have heels on the bottom of the graver. In watching Sam's sharpening videos I only see him putting 15 degrees on right and left side. I did this with my #4 flat and find a lot of resistance
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akintagleocarving wrote on edgrabow15's profile.
Did you see my email regarding the payment difference. Thanks
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