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  1. Chujybear

    Bench Pin

    Hey monk. I will. I’ve just moved my shop so the box is jammed full of stuff.. tho maybe that’s even better.. the animal under stress
  2. Chujybear

    Question: What Drawing Skills Are Needed for Engraving?

    I think the question has probably received the best advice it could. Tak this as an addendum. Engraving and drawing are actually pretty similar.. but also with some notable differences. The visual language of engraving and drawing closely related. I think what people have said above is...
  3. Chujybear

    Bench Pin

    i have a portable work bench, which is essentially a tool box. there is a removable dowel longwise across the opening that is repurposed as a mast to hold my flexshaft, if it is part of my travelling toolkit. the box tips over on its side with the op[ening facing me.. the lower side is clamped...
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    Question: Graver heels

    I’ll do a fair cry less than four swipes... i’ll Travel about 1/2” to 1” on 2000 grit, to a porcelain Lapp.. and that’s lots for me. A little more if i am cutting strictly straight lines for a bit
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    Question: Facetting machine for graver polishing?

    I used a faceting machine for years. Worked great, high torque (on the one i used anyways) had an oil drip.. had a cutaway in the pan to access all the angles i needed.... I didn’t bother to hook it up to the mast tho, just eyeballed my cuts
  6. Chujybear

    Lindsay air graver

    Recently.. i’m Not in Australia , but I’ve noticed export/import duties have gone through the roof for tools out of the US in the last few years
  7. Chujybear

    Refreshing a diamond bench stone

    Not all diamond stones are created equal.. i still have one in operation from lee valley that i inherited from myth dad about 25 years ago.. the grit is somewhat finer, but it still cuts fast. I’ve gotten new ones that were spent in a year.. and I’ve got some new ones that are good...
  8. Chujybear

    Selling engraving equipment in Canada?

    Where in canada? If you are in van, there is a pretty strong engraving community there.. but sam speaks the truth. The classifieds here seem to move engraving equipment quite well.
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    Question: What’s a day in the life of a professional engraver look like?

    Up.. Do correspondence.. answer emails etc. Coffee with my wife.. watch the birds in the garden. Go for a walk.. hr-1.5hr Breakfast. Into the shop. Carve for about four hrs.. Stand up and mess around.. try new techniques, or do some other thing that is pressing that doesn’t involve...
  10. Chujybear

    Wire drawing cheat sheet

    Also you pay for the labour of having somebody else draw it down for you... I don’t know what the premium is because I have never bought wire... the other reason, besides the good ones written above, is if you have your own alloy recipe, and you want your wire in a specific color.
  11. Chujybear

    Snake Progress Drawing

    He is saying to further entwine your snake. So that it is literally woven into itself through a pattern of under over.. so every other time it crosses itself, it will cross under itself. This will homogenize the design and create a balance and rhythms across the whole design... That is...
  12. Chujybear

    Newb questions

    For flat stuff I just have an old tobacco tin full of lead, the piece gets lacquered to a lid.. whole thing spins on a turntable
  13. Chujybear

    Question: Oil filter for air compressor

    i don't want to steer you wrong, since I have multiple coalescing filters in my line.. but I remember ray cover had two things besides his filter, one was a long section of tube right out of the machine this is coiled before any filters.. this allow the air to cool and for moisture to settle...
  14. Chujybear

    Stones vs Sandpaper

    Could be any of those things... and again, Gould be some small piece of grit crumbled off and scoring the surface under your stone... if your stone has squid edges, it could also be that you are slightly tipping your stone, and scoring grooves with the edges
  15. Chujybear

    Penguin Pin

    I think i may have met these penguins in a dream
  16. Chujybear

    Stones vs Sandpaper

    I’m not totally sure I am following you.... but what may be ya-penning is the paper is breaking down, effectively giving you a “higher” finest grit at the end of your process. The stone breaks down as you work, exposing new fresh stone all the time, so it will be a true 1200 polish at the end...
  17. Chujybear

    Question: Complain to a non-engraver

    Definitely if it’s plate.. can arrived all scuffed up, or pitted if it is steel.. in person you can examine... if it is gold, it’s a matter of it being in the mail
  18. Chujybear

    Question: Complain to a non-engraver

    When I cut around the waste.
  19. Chujybear

    Dividers and Calipers

    That’s pretty tricky!
  20. Chujybear

    Curious what is going on with this gun- etched, engraved, corroded?

    Maybe a little more rust and a little deeper which each new bleeding

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