Id like to thank everyone who contributed advice for me. Ive finally gotten success. I ordered some 316 stainless dog tags and sharpened the heck out of a carbide 90 degree graver. I tore one up until i found the right angle and machine speed and whatnot and got it cutting nice curls of metal. I...
Thats awesome to be getting advice from a fellow tattooer. Im looking to open a shop of my own as well. Will take some time but the plan will remain until the goal it met. And you are so right about tattoos being jewelry for people who dont change their minds lol ive tattooed jewelry on people.
Did you spend time as a tattoo artist? Ive seen you reference tattooing a bit
. Tattooing is one of my other artforms ive done for years. Its definitely helped a lot with getting into engraving.
It was sold as for powered handpieces so i assumed it would be. I guess if i snap it off smaller and grind it into the proper shape to fit it should work no?
I ordered a grs N20 flat graver and it just came in. The part that goes into the handpiece is flat and large and doesnt fit in either of my handpieces. Do these need a specific handpiece to work with? Its much larger than all my other gravers. Said it was for pnumatic and not hand push so im not...
Ive done some work with micromotors on metal and through experimenting learned that if you do what everyone says not to do and push the bur toward the lines like you would in hand engraving it creates a much closer look, deffinitely not hand engraved but much nicer than what the common...
How much does the heel play a role when cutting stainless? ive read to not use a heel when cutting stainless but wouldnt that cause the graver to dig into the metal?
Thank you for the response, it sure has been frustrating trying to work with it and is making me second guess my desire to work on guns. These tiny pieces have been a nightmare so far lol. The deepest i can cut on them is what shading lines would look like. Ill do 3 passes and barely do anything.
Ive done lots of dremel engraving and can do it very clean. This definitely looks like someone who used a dremel and hasnt gotten very good with it yet but none of that even matters with how terrible the artwork is. Id be furious if someone sent this back to me.
Ive got a bunch of copper brass aluminum and stainless steel blanks to practice on. The stainless blanks came from amazon and dont have the type of steel labeled but they are stamping blanks and all of them on amazon seem to be 304 stainless steel. I cant get anything but a very shallow cut on...
This looks amazing. I have some stainless pendant blanks i got from amazon that did not state what type of steel they are. Needless to say i can barely do anything but cut very shallow lines into it. They are stamping blanks but are so hard they break every graver tip ive tried on them. Super...