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    Still looking at lasers

    From what I understand the only real way to go with engraving metal with a laser is a fiber laser. There are some paint like sprays that can be applied to other metals that will make any average co2 laser “engrave” metal I believe it’s called cermark. Might help with what you’re trying to do.
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    NgraveR worth owning?

    After owning one of these about 10 years ago at this point; it’s definitely not worth owning. I was not able to learn engraving with this tool to any successful degree. about 4 years ago I went with a lindsay hand piece and took off on much better footing to learning engraving. I think the...
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    Squirrel Ring

    Here’s one of an elephant and sort of a squirrel I generated in A few seconds on a free AI art website. A few sentences long prompt and this was the first image it came up with. Took about 2 minutes
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    Zippo Engraving set-up

    A buddy of mine Chris made a fantastic set and 3d prints them for sale. It’s got an insert that goes inside the lighter as well as a fixture to securely clamp them in a vice. you can look him up on instagram
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    Elephant Ring

    Too shiny in unreal ways, too perfect, fake shadows under and in the ears etc
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    Elephant Ring

    AI for sure
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    iPad pro

    Tutorials in regards to what? The use of procreate or using an iPad in general? YouTube is a great resource for finding info on most topics. If I know more specifically what you’re looking for maybe I can point you in the right direction.
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    iPad pro

    Worst case scenario if you fill the iPad you could always pay for icloud or use Dropbox but I don’t think you will get to that point unless you have thousands of photos and hundreds of drawings.
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    iPad pro

    I have an iPad Pro 5 and 128 go is plenty for all my procreate files, photos, 3d printing stuff etc
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    “Power hone” DIY

    Thought I would share this DIY (of sorts) power hone. The work surface is 3d printed and at the correct 1/2 inch height for Lindsay templates. The 1 inch wide wheel and fixture in the front is used to grind a small flat on round carbide blanks so the graver can be indexed in the Lindsay...
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    question about silhouette background.

    If it were me I would cut it deep and flat then stipple, with time and use anything will wear however if the paint or ink wears a new coat can easily be applied Since most likely the metal itself isnt worn just the ink is rubbed off the slightly higher points. I use Speedball block printing ink...
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    Any Beginner Practice Drawings I Can Print?

    Any regular paper will work, at one point I was using heavy weight card stock when I ran out of normal paper, took a bit more acetone to wet the paper but the transfers were still great.
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    the old puma

    I wasn’t aware there was a CD of his work. I have his book which was great to learn from but I wish the photos were closer up. Still have never seen a bulino engraving in person! Other than my own that is.
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    the old puma

    By magic pencil do you mean the Apple Pencil? Yes it’s much better to draw with the pencil vs your finger
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    the old puma

    Biggest thing I think you can work on at this point is scale down the size of your cuts. Think of it like the pixel resolution on a photo. A camera with a higher resolution will have smaller more closely spaced pixels. Your cuts should be tiny tiny tiny. If an area needs to be dark like the...
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