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  1. AllenClapp

    Question: Cast iron or ceramic lap? Diamond Spray or dry Powder? How many Variations needed?

    If you haven't done so, check out the instructions for both the cast iron lap and ceramic lap wheels on the GRS website. https://grs.com/manuals-documents/ Under the SUPPORT tab, go to MANUALS, and then to SHARPENING and it will move you down the list to where you can download the respective...
  2. AllenClapp

    Question: Trapezius Pain While Engraving

    www.grs.com. They are expensive, but they work well. I got the total package with the turntable on top. It has an adjustable piston in it similar to the type you find in adjustable-height office chairs. It can be less expensive to make your own with a screw jack, cut-off drill press stand, etc...
  3. AllenClapp

    Help, please: Need Help Troubleshooting, Gravermax Handpiece Vibrating Without Engaging Pedal

    Before you send it in, check out the GRS University video that Molly Licea did on adjusting the pedal. You can find it on the GRS site or YouTube.
  4. AllenClapp

    Question: Trapezius Pain While Engraving

    If you did not do so in your original setup, first set your chair height to fit your body, then set the microscope height to be comfortable when you sit erect, and lastly bring the work up to the height required for a clearly focused view in the microscope. Obviously, this requires a ball vise...
  5. AllenClapp

    Cheat Sheet for Checking Heel Length

    All true. The reason that I put up this thread was that several new engravers were having trouble with two things. The first was consistency--and they wanted a way to check themselves. The second was confusion when they went back and forth between narrow gravers with short sides and wide gravers...
  6. AllenClapp

    Modeling clay

    Do I correctly assume that you use a heat gun to speed up the drying of the printer's ink?
  7. AllenClapp

    Modeling clay

    Brian Powley showed a neat trick in the video made at one of Scott Pilkington's Engrave-In weekends a few years ago. It is on YouTube. He covered a variety of subjects including gold line inlay techniques and engraver pricing issues. The total video is a little over an hour long. Brian dabbed...
  8. AllenClapp

    Cheat Sheet for Checking Heel Length

    Heel length can be very critical, depending upon the scale of your work. A longer heel works well for cutting straight lines, but the back side of the graver will chatter across the back side of the cut when you make sharp turns with a long heel. A longer heel is easier to maintain a level cut...
  9. AllenClapp

    Cheat Sheet for Checking Heel Length

    Can you recommend a source for such a loupe?
  10. AllenClapp

    Cheat Sheet for Checking Heel Length

    Draw a wire through each hole. Measure diameter with vernier calipers and mark the holes or make a chart.
  11. AllenClapp

    Cheat Sheet for Checking Heel Length

    Many people are told to use some fraction of a millimeter for heels on gravers used for specific functions but they have no clue how to gauge that length when looking at the heels under a microscope or with a loupe. The easy way is to keep a few pieces of wire of known gauges of wire at hand to...
  12. AllenClapp

    Do you have a schedule for Saturday and Sunday for the Engrave-In? I have a couple of friends...

    Do you have a schedule for Saturday and Sunday for the Engrave-In? I have a couple of friends that are working on Saturday but might be able to get there for Sunday.
  13. AllenClapp

    CRACKS

    I found out two things over time: (1) when you wrap a barrel or cylinder with clear packing tape and mark boundaries on the outside of the tape, the size of the image will increase when you apply the tape to paper or card stock due to the thickness of the tape, and (2) all printers will not...
  14. AllenClapp

    CRACKS

    I have found that, when I wrap a cylinder with transparent tape and mark the edges of the flutes and notches, the thickness of the tape adds to the distance between the items when I tape it to a flat piece of card stock and scan it or print it. I have scanned such drawings and then done some...
  15. AllenClapp

    CRACKS

    Are you referring to the spacing of the flutes around the cylinder or the spacing of the chambers themselves? I remember back in the day when shooting revolvers in bullseye matches, we tested each chamber separately for accuracy and marked the best one to use for slow fire matches and the one...
  16. AllenClapp

    Dot Punch Size Comparisons

    confused with dot punch sizes because some are in thousandths of an inch and some are in fractions of a mm, here is a comparison. A No. 2 NgraveR dot punch used by many who still have them [no longer available] is equivalent in size to a No. 5 Vallorbe beading tool. A No. 1.5 NgraveR dot punch...
  17. AllenClapp

    Suggestions for an affordable watch worth engraving

    Wes Griffin of the Texas Engraving School has online videos on watch engraving and occasionally teaches a class on it.
  18. AllenClapp

    Suggestions for an affordable watch worth engraving

    https://paganidesign.co/products/pagani-design-pd1717-mens-automatic-watches-38mm-stainless-steel-mechanical-200m-waterproof-wrist-watch-for-men This Pagani watch is a reasonable trial watch for learning to engrave watches. It is not that expensive. It has been used by several people in watch...
  19. AllenClapp

    Suggestions for an affordable watch worth engraving

    Otto Frei has a separate website for watch parts: https://www.ofrei.com/WatchMaterials.html. Note that the URL is NOT ottofrei.com, it is ofrei.com.
  20. AllenClapp

    Denatured alcohol to remove shellac destroys the polish

    Are you using 97% denatured alcohol or 70% denature alcohol. If you are using 70%, can you be seeing tarnish forming due to leaving it in the water/alcohol mix? If so, using a cotton swab to help remove the shellac quickly and limit time in the solution may help.

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