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    Help, please: hand push engraving

    There used to be a comprehensive tutorial on DVD by Heinar Tamme. Unfortunately it's not available anymore :rolleyes:
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    Help, please: hand push engraving

    Thank you Roger. I'll take all this information and try again. This is a great forum and your help isn't taken for granted. Many thanks, you really helped me.
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    Help, please: hand push engraving

    Thank you all for your help and patience. Just one last question. If I want to engrave simple lines like in the picture attached, do I need to use H&C or it also can be done by hand engraving?
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    Help, please: hand push engraving

    Thank you Roger for the detailed answer. The book you recommended is very expensive for me and I don't want to invest a lot of money as a beginner, so I'll try first the book jerrywh recommended first (Thanks jerrywh). You mentioned that brass is difficult to hand push. Is it preferred to work...
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    Help, please: hand push engraving

    Thank you for trying to help me, Crazy Horse. (I tried to find a teacher in the past but I couldn't find one. There was a very skillful engraver and a teacher in Jerusalem who had learnt engraving in Europe but when I contacted him he told me that he's very sick and doesn't teach anymore. just...
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    Help, please: hand push engraving

    Thank you for the replies. I live in Israel, Jerusalem. If someone know of a teacher nearby I'll be grateful.
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    Help, please: hand push engraving

    Hello. I am trying to learn hand push engraving from the book of James B. Meek “The art of Engraving”. I purchased some gravers (picture attached) for practicing and I’m engraving on a piece of brass plate. I sharpened the gravers exactly as described in the book and I looked at tutorials on...

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