These may work and probably are suitable for jewellery or silver engravers. But: For all engravers that work mostly on steel, or/and uses tool steel or HSS gravers any magnetism in the workshop is rather annoying! The day will come when your tools are affected. From then on chips tend to stick to the underside of gravers and there is the constant danger of slipping at the begin of cuts. Dakota Doc Martin may not like my post because my opinion is different: I recommend to strictly avoid any magnetism on the engravers bench! (The magnetic stripes on the stand of the sharpening holder are enough...)
Martin
i already orderd a set. i made a set many years ago. they have just about worn out. doc did this just in time for me to retire the old ones.
These may work and probably are suitable for jewellery or silver engravers. But: For all engravers that work mostly on steel, or/and uses tool steel or HSS gravers any magnetism in the workshop is rather annoying! The day will come when your tools are affected. From then on chips tend to stick to the underside of gravers and there is the constant danger of slipping at the begin of cuts. Dakota Doc Martin may not like my post because my opinion is different: I recommend to strictly avoid any magnetism on the engravers bench! (The magnetic stripes on the stand of the sharpening holder are enough...)
Martin
Looks great and handy to me. I will give it a try if Doc is willing to ship them to Belgium.
arnaud
I m with Martin on this one...
as thought in Liège School : Avoid water and magnets from your work table....if you work on guns, one day you ll find out why ;-)
BUT a strong magnet at another specific place is unbearable to pull metal Chips out of your eyes in case of emergency![]()