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    Question: A little help on Magnablock dimensions?

    Thanks! I’m guessing they haven’t been changed (no reason to), and it looks like I can safely assume that as long as the dimensions are kept on the tight side they should fit fine.
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    Question: A little help on Magnablock dimensions?

    Hi everyone- I’ve been working on a new pair of vise jaws for my GRS Magnablock and thought I’d make a few extra sets when it’s ready (translation: when I finally quit tweaking the design). My question is, since my vise is over 40 years old are the T-track dimensions still the same? I don’t...
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    Todays Doodle for Critique

    The biggest advantage of a pencil and paper is the ability to keep turning the page around and looking at your scrolls from every angle. Scrolls that look ok “right side up” can look pretty bad “upside down”. I don’t know if you can rotate a digital image like that.
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    Zippo Engraving set-up

    Do NOT let any cerrometal come into contact with gold inlays. Trust me, you don’t know enough cuss words to deal with that problem.
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    Old silver engraving

    Interesting name for a school…
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    Engrave-ability of new Python?

    I didn’t see it mentioned in the archive list. Has anyone worked on a new one recently? Any comments besides the barrel cannot be removed? TIA!
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    Here be Monsters

    I’ve had that happen, too! I don’t mind, I love spiders.
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    Interesting article on gold

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/natural-piezoelectric-effect-may-build-gold-deposits/
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    still kicking

    Remove background from the middle out. Everyone makes the mistake of “outlining” the background cavity first, then having to recut it to clean up all the dings. Wherever the area is big enough, hog out the center, letting the perimeter protect the edges, then cut the outline last. You’re doing...
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    An engraver, of course….

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alchemist-of-new-england-history-of-counterfeiting
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    Hand engraving micro script lettering

    Showoff. ;-)
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    Drawing Pencil

    I use a yellow sharpie for pretty much the same thing. And a black one as a Dykem substitute.
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    Fascinating engraving story

    Great, thanks! Sorry for slow reply, I’m dogsitting for a friend and having such a good time with the little guy that stuff has been slipping by me.
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    Fascinating engraving story

    Over the weekend I met a close friend’s brother-in-law and he asked what I did? When I said I was an engraver his eyes lit up and he told me an amazing story about what he did as a young kid in Vietnam before his family was able to escape in the late 1970s. When South Vietnam fell in ‘73-‘74...
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    Someone selling a Rio kiln…

    Well now I can’t find the listing, which might mean it’s been sold, but if you’re familiar with Nextdoor it could just mean it’s lost somewhere in their [poop]show website. I’ll keep looking for another day or two.
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