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  1. AllenClapp

    Need a source for micro fine burrs

    GRS has carbide burs down to 0.3 mm. Does that work for you? https://grs.com/product-category/products/gravers-accessories/burs/
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    New Stainless Pythons engravable?

    My link did not work a couple of weeks ago and I tried to find the site again with no luck. To what URL did it move?
  3. AllenClapp

    sharpen liner graver.

    You only sharpen the front face, which simultaneously sharpens the face of each vee cutter. You do NOT sharpen the bottom. There is no heel. If you turn the face down on the hone and hold it steady at the face angle that works best for you, you will get a flat front face. If you rotate it...
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    sharpen liner graver.

    Do you use the flesh side or smooth side of the leather with diamond spray on a liner?
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    Last nights drawing

    For my taste, that is a lot of gray tone. More highlights and darker areas would make it pop. I notice that many of the leaves had crosshatching all the way out. If you start crosshatching where you want the darkest spot and make them lighter and further apart as you move away--and don't cover...
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    The Three Amigos

    I drool so much when looking at a Seidel saddle that, if I saw both your work together, I would probably expire from dehydration. What a great gift.
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    Gotta love spellcheckers! I should have said to check your country's copyright and patent office.
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    Check your countries copyright and patent office for procedures and forms. they differ.
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    Click on the HOW LONG DOES A COPYRIGHT LAST secton from the US Copyright Office to get the circular.
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    The length of the copyright depends upon when the work was done to some extent. There is a nice explanatory circular from the US Patent Office that explains it. If the work is recent, the copyright extends for 70 years after the author's life. If I read this correctly, any work done before...
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    If anyone wants something to use to practice cutting, instead of design, attached are a couple of pages that I did several years ago to get my hand and eye back into cutting uniformly straight or curved lines, or cutting tiny curves, if I had not been cutting for a bit. They are certainly NOT...
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    My first engraved watch (in progress)

    When you engrave metal with a vee graver, the top edge of each side of the cut is relatively sharp, unless it is rounded a little. This is a two-edged sword. The more the cut lines are buffed to round those edges (1) the longer will be the life of the shirts sleeve cuffs that rub against those...
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    My first engraved watch (in progress)

    Almost everyone that I know that has engraved a watch has started with a design that was beautiful, but too intricate to cut--and certainly too intricate to cut if they were going to try to make money from engraving a watch. Several have said that they would never engrave a band again, because...
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    My first engraved watch (in progress)

    That looks to me to be an extremely complicated and intricated design to engrave and inlay in such a small space. You may want to transfer a section of that design to a practice plate and see if you can cut and inlay that intricate, small design before trying to cut the watch. If you can cut and...
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    Real size template - Tutorial.

    Some printers have "print to fit paper" features that will stretch or compress designs unless that feature is turned off.
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    Pictorio transfer

    If you are going to make transfer prints with an ink printer, be sure that your printer uses PIGMENT INK. Many color ink printers use pigment black and dye color. Dye inks do not work. If you have a color printer with pigment black and dye color, tell the printer to only print black. If you have...
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    Class The Magic of Monograms

    The Borden and Riley #90 tracing paper in her list of supplies is made to accept ink, inkjet printing, and laserjet printing. It is "translucent" and one of the clearest tracing papers I have seen. It is a good thickness for running through a copier. They have a thinner one claiming similar...
  18. AllenClapp

    Critique Request Translucent powdercoating over engraving

    Has anyone tried a clear Cerakote layer to protect engraving?
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    French grey techniques

    Do you melt the Renaissance Wax to add the lamp black?
  20. AllenClapp

    grs 901 hose

    Call Greg Gentry at GRS and he will tell you what you need. GRS has lots of parts that are not on the website. Greg is the guy for getting machines working like new.

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