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.
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?
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...
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...
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...