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The onglette is a Super tool I learned engrave with it in Antwerp still use it daily for; recutting borders, chiseling work and lettering. The onglette is sharpened ore for right handed ore for left...
Graver geometry is extremely important...........but only to the person wielding the graver. It's like the flies in a fishing vest. We only use 3 or 4 favourites and all the rest are to impress our...
For a work holder you can use a dowel with a plate on top with shellac. Round the borrow of the dowel and you can but it up against a divot in your bench pin. You will have no less range in a cut...
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I have an sharpening fixture ,looks just like...
I have an sharpening fixture ,looks just like yours,except the thumb is on the other side.
tundratrekers@mtaonline.n 05-19-2013, 10:19 PMI see no heel?
Pepole,ANY shape graver can have an cutting tip with angles you wish.
An onglette can...