Eddi
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Just got my engraving study kit from GRS. Great stuff. I´m as exited as a kid at christmastime! I think this is the best way to learn engraving if you can´t go to a GRS course.
Eddi
Eddi
Study kit arrived...Life is good!
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pappy
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Study kit
Is this the Ron Smith kit? If so, be careful because the steel cuts very, very, easily. I had been cutting on cronite, but as I started to cut the kit plates they were unexpectedly soft. I spoiled my first one by going to deep. But they are The Best! After you do a plate, blacken it and take it upstairs and just study the shading. I am working in the Advanced book and I'm starting to get the way shading works.
Happy cutting!!
pappy
Is this the Ron Smith kit? If so, be careful because the steel cuts very, very, easily. I had been cutting on cronite, but as I started to cut the kit plates they were unexpectedly soft. I spoiled my first one by going to deep. But they are The Best! After you do a plate, blacken it and take it upstairs and just study the shading. I am working in the Advanced book and I'm starting to get the way shading works.
Happy cutting!!
pappy
Eddi
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Yes it is the Ron Smith kit. I am used to cutting gold and silver so the steel not too soft for me.
I was going to post a picture of the first plate I engraved but they are so shiny that the only thin on the picture was the mirrored image of me and the camera, and you don´t want to see that!
I wish I could play with that practice kit all day but I have to work too.
Eddi
I was going to post a picture of the first plate I engraved but they are so shiny that the only thin on the picture was the mirrored image of me and the camera, and you don´t want to see that!
I wish I could play with that practice kit all day but I have to work too.
Eddi
pappy
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Eddi, I've never cut anything but steel, but I plan to get some silver and gold to inlay with. What would you say those plates cut like? Silver or Gold?
Eddi
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Hi Steve
I think it´s closer to gold. I mostly cut 14k gold. It can be very different. Something that is cast is usually much softer than the things that I make. All my stuff is hammered into shape. It cuts much better.
The silver is that way too. Cast is softer than "die struck" or rolled or hand made. I hope you understand this. I´m not sure how to explain this in english. I can explain it better in Icelandic, but that will probably not help.
All the best
Eddi
I think it´s closer to gold. I mostly cut 14k gold. It can be very different. Something that is cast is usually much softer than the things that I make. All my stuff is hammered into shape. It cuts much better.
The silver is that way too. Cast is softer than "die struck" or rolled or hand made. I hope you understand this. I´m not sure how to explain this in english. I can explain it better in Icelandic, but that will probably not help.
All the best
Eddi
pappy
Elite Cafe Member
Thanks Eddie!
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