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    still kicking

    “having a lot of trouble getting them to sit upright” - I use the same type of tool holders as for beading tools and fix a piece of hard 2.5mm brass rod inside. I file it to a blunt point and use it to press down the stones into their holes. By pressing down at one side or another, I can change...
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    still kicking

    I would not dare to use machine drills made from carbide (the one with the red marker ring) in a handpiece, as they break like glass. I use tool steel drills 0.5 or 0.6 mm for the pilot hole, and often have to correct their grind after inspecting them under the microscope. The enlarged photo...
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    still kicking

    Hello Meshach, I use different styles of flex shafts. One standard size came with the big green-gray motor, the other standard size shaft (the red one) I bought as a spare and connected it to a really slow DC motor. Both accept exchangable handpieces of european style. The red flex shaft is...
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    still kicking

    pictures of flex shafts and controller
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    still kicking

    For stone setting I use only flexible shaft tools at low speed. Position of the stone marked with a deep dot from a scriber, I drill first a 0.5 mm hole through the metal with a spiral drill. For the rest of the work I use round dental burrs, got tons of them from the flea market and collecting...
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    Question: Contacts

    I‘m a german hobby goldsmith who engraves a bit as well. Live in France at the german border and work as an electronics/RF engineer in Germany. Region Karlsruhe - Rastatt, PM me if interested. Cheers Ralf
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    Question: Best bench stone for polishing hss gravers?

    I second the fine degussit stone, I use it with either oil (does not penetrate the stone) or with a polishing compound like Simichrome. I found all my degussit stones all on ebay (needs patience!!), there is also sometimes a coarse version that is not produced anymore. Cheers Ralf
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    sharpening..stones vs hones

    For the Crocker setup I mentioned above see the Meek book (The art of engraving), pages 104-107
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    sharpening..stones vs hones

    It is easy to use a common drill press as a hone, as Shaun Hughes shows at youtube the drill press bit starts at about 5:30 I used a similiar setup to shape gravers before I built my minihone, as I found shaping the blanks purely by hand too tedious. For the quality of the faces and angles...
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    Marius Mellebye - EngraverHand Designs and Artwork

    Hello Marius, I absolutely adore the drawings you post. Technical question: Are they done with AD at iPad, or at Mac? I’m looking for a replacement for Linearity Curve at my iPad, since they jacked up the prices. Cheers Ralf
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    Foot control

    Faced with a similiar challenge, I made a pedal that uses a simple two-lever-gear and just gradually opens a squeezed-shut silicon hose to provide a finely controllable bleed valve. please excuse my German… No drawing or plans are available, as I made after some coarse estimations on the...
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    Parallel Point Length

    To avoid heel drag when flare cutting, I was aiming for shorter and shorter heels, until I realised that a very short heel makes the graver hard to control and requires lower angles of attack. Else it will dig in. I had not enough freedom for my handpiece and fingers. I grind now arround 0.2 mm...
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    an alternative to cast iron and ceramic laps for minihones

    Hi, while browsing the net for 50-60mm ceramic discs for my DIY mini hone, I had an idea. Instead of using a hard ceramic disc for graver polishing, I could use a hard anodized aluminum disc. The anodized layer is aluminum oxide, almost as hard as sapphire or ruby. Fortunately, I have a stock...
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    Some thing different

    So far only for stone setting, where very short cuts suffice. I‘m just experimenting with carbide-tipped microgravers, shall I try one without heel? They where pretty capricous with heels already, until I polished the heels with a felt wheel (radiused the edges) and polished the face afterwards...
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    transfers

    The best translation I found is „greaseproof paper“. It might also be called parchment substitute or vellum subsitute. The type I use is made to wrap sandwiches, as a traditional replacement for cling film. It is made from wood-free paper pulp which was ground with so much pressure the the...
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    transfers

    I tried baking parchement paper, it did work by far less effective than the Butterbrotpapier. I found my favorite transfer method, I could just not tell you where to find similiar paper outside Germany. Cheers Ralf
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    transfers

    just three fresh examples how the "Butterbrotpapier" transfer works. I put varnish on the piece while it was still warm from hot melt glue, so the varnish layer got a little bit thicker than usual and did also stick to the paper. The scale in the photos is divided in 1/10 mm, one can also see...
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    transfers

    My brother DCP printer/copier/scanner makes no transfer at all with acetone. After many experiments with different solvents (aceton, isopropanol, artist‘s transfer fluid, lighter fluid, NC paint thinner, two kinds of brake cleaner) I read that my brother toner is wax based. That prompted my to...
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    Announcement: Iconic Scrolls practice plate

    I like all the different scroll designs very much. I would prefer to purchase the file, as it avoids all the hassle with shipping to Europe, customs and delivery time. Best regards Ralf
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    Announcement: Intermediate engraving class @ GRS

    I likethe design very much. I would also prefer to purchase the file… Best regards Ralf

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