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  1. AllenClapp

    Equipment to start off in engraving

    You might consider taking a beginning engraving course from Ray Cover, Wes Griffin, or another instructor that has several kinds of engraving systems available for you to try. Not only will you get a great start, but you can figure out what type of system will work best for you. Then you can...
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    Stippling ?

    Please post the answer to help others
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    Stippling ?

    GRS has Master Engraver Rex Pedersen available to answer questions like that. Call GRS and ask to speak to Rex; they will forward the call. If Rex isn't available, ask to speak to Greg Gentry who does all the refurbishing of GRS engraving machines; Greg is in-house.
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    Ease of inlaying phosphor bronze vs brass vs copper

    How would you rate the relative ease of inlaying phosphor bronze wire vs brass wire vs copper wire? Same question for sheets of those materials?
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    0.3 objective for Nikon SMZ

    Can you build up the gap with teflon tape like you use to seal threads in water pipe connections?
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    Darkening backgrounds

    God's Country
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    opinions please

    I suspect that doing circles would produce more uniform line widths. However, if you wanted to let the line widths vary to produce a shading effect, you could start a little before the midpoint of each petal arc and increase the depth (line width) as you approach the end of each petal (center of...
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    Darkening backgrounds

    Behold: the power of finger cots! I love that story. I am also surprised that they are still using ink for fingerprints, instead of the electronic scanning systems. I thought the days of using ink for fingerprints were all gone.
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    Darkening backgrounds

    The time-honored tradition for wiping paint is your finger. Walgreens and other places sell FINGER COTS, i.e., single finger latex finger covers. If you want to make your hand cleanup easier, get the assortment first to see what size fits your finger best and then look for boxes of that size...
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    Darkening backgrounds

    The Rustoleum route isn't all that bad. I use a glue spreader to wipe off the majority of the paint on the surface, follow quickly by dragging a square of paper grocery bag across the surface and, if necessary, slightly dampen a piece of the paper grocery bag and wipe the last smudges off the...
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    Engraving Transfer Technique

    Look up your inks online and it will tell you if they are pigment inks or sublimation dye inks. Look up both black and colors: some printers have both as one type and many printers use pigment for black and dye for color.
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    Question: treading on sensitive ground...graver formulas

    I seem to have struck a nerve somehow by answering the original question, which was what formulas do you use to get parallel heels. The traditional triangular heel works well for many cuts. However, if you need to lean the graver over much to sculpt the edge of a leaf with a graver that has a...
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    Engraving Transfer Technique

    There is literally a way to put up a red flag in crossover areas where you need to stop cutting a line and pick it up on the other side of something. If you have an inkjet printer that uses PIGMENT INK for both color and black, you can use color to highlight areas you want to avoid...
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    Question: treading on sensitive ground...graver formulas

    The easy trick to using that chart is to print two copies and then mark out everything but what you use on one, keeping the other for anything you might want to try later. OR, just pick off what you normally might use and put them on a note pad to keep by your sharpening setup.
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    Question: treading on sensitive ground...graver formulas

    I put up tables and formulas in this forum a while back. Search for Graver rotation angles needed to produce parallel heels.
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    Ron Smith's The Making of A Masterpiece

    This book is worth its price on just the discussions of how he planned and executed the simulated beadwork on the wood stock and on the gun metal: two different systems ending up looking alike. The rest of the book is just like biting into a piece of exceptionally good chocolate and then finding...
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    Barrel engraving setup

    Thanks
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    Barrel engraving setup

    This looks like a neat, functional fixture. Could you supply a list of parts that you bought? And suppliers? It appears that you have set up your scope mount on the front of your table. I have mine on the back to keep it out of the way, at the moment. However, I am working out a design for a...
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    Relief engraving tools and tips

    You can probably get all your questions answered, including some you don't yet know that you have, in Sam Alfano's DVD on heavy sculpting.
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    Question: Advice on GRS classes or private instruction?

    If you are heavy into more ornate leaves and scrolls, Sam Alfano teaches an Arabesque scroll course at GRS and also does one-on-one teaching in his shop in Louisiana on subjects of your choice.

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