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  1. mitch

    Air compressor pressure question

    Check the specs in the GRS manual, but I believe they recommend about 10psi more from the compressor than their machine requires. In other words, you should always have a little more air available than the engraving machine needs. I think i keep mine at about 45psi.
  2. mitch

    Today’s funny.

    What can I say? We get backed up sometimes…
  3. mitch

    Help with foot throttle

    Sometimes the screw hole threads strip out (it’s a plastic part) so the screw can’t be tightened. The only fix is a new part.
  4. mitch

    Announcement: RIP Winston Churchill

    No words.
  5. mitch

    Help, please: Newbie engraver, onglette heel help

    Onglettes are one of the most difficult gravers to sharpen and do consistently. Id strongly recommend picking an easier battle at this point in your journey until your skills are more advanced and you have a specific need for onglettes.
  6. mitch

    Chinese Hobo Nickels on ebay

    They’re faked. And not very well. Look closely at how uneven the “LIBERTY” lettering is.
  7. mitch

    Some things never change…

    Both! Same as today.
  8. mitch

    Some things never change…

    This book was written about 90 years ago.
  9. mitch

    Precision sharpening and polishing of these custom gravers/qc

    Keep in mind you also need a polished transition from the base of the heel to the graver shank. If the face and heel are nice n shiny, but the trailing edge of the heel meets at a rough edge with an unpolished shank your cuts may have been momentarily bright then get wrecked. The trailing edge...
  10. mitch

    New Stainless Pythons engravable?

    Scroll down below the main page (see screenshot) and it’s with metals information- CAFE GUN LIST (see other screenshot).
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    New Stainless Pythons engravable?

    Yeah, it’s still there but you gotta hunt for it. New SS Pythons are not mentioned.
  12. mitch

    New Stainless Pythons engravable?

    I know the barrels can’t be removed, but it’s only 3” and engraving would be a minimal treatment on frame and cylinder.
  13. mitch

    GraverMax G8 Air Issues

    It could probably use what auto mechanics call an “Italian tuneup”. Floor the pedal and turn the Strokes Per Minute knob up & down a few times for a minute or so. It won’t hurt anything and might clear whatever’s making it buck and stall.
  14. mitch

    Motifs & animals- shouldn’t they face forward?

    Yeah, but…. As Kevin rather poetically explained, a gun is a dynamic canvas with a clear “force vector” moving in a forward direction. There are also other traditional conventions in our art, such as north/south timed screws, checkering, etc. Having said that, one needs to know when to “break...
  15. mitch

    Example of how not to do it.

    My eyes! My eyes! If a client requests something similar the correct reply is, “As Dean said to Haldeman, ‘We could do it, but it would be wrong.’ “.
  16. mitch

    sharpen liner graver.

    And by “radius the face slightly”, Mike means side to side across the face, not top to bottom. You need to sweep the graver thru a small arc while holding it at the proper sharpening angle. It doesn’t take much.
  17. mitch

    Raised gold inlay

    You can make a smoke print that will be exact. Instead of putting the tape on paper, stick it to some sort of clear film- acetate, mylar, whatever. Be sure to clean the inlay cavities well after the smoke.
  18. mitch

    Favorite simple motifs for difficult areas?

    Like people who might be so into music they can’t appreciate silence. Or someone who thinks a quiet moment in nature, with some birds singing or the breeze in the trees, could always be “improved” with a symphonic soundtrack. Yeah, they p!ss me off…
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    Favorite simple motifs for difficult areas?

    Clients who need every square millimeter covered with something, anything, and cannot appreciate the occasional bit of well polished metal, are vulgar, uncultured slobs. My 2¢
  20. mitch

    Pendant, Practice gold inlay

    Most insects have four wings, but the second set are not always very visible. Notable exceptions are flies- dipterans, di= 2, ptera= wing.

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