Dani Girl, One of these days your going to walk out the front door and let your boss know that any engraving work he needs done will be fifty to one hundred fifty per hour if you can fit him in your schedule, Humble is good but so are you and getting better all the time. Fred
Here's a couple of slightly better pictures of script done with a cheap $100 to $150 rotary tool which only does 45,000rpm which I use at work every day. It's good to know how to use one of these for times when you just can't vise what you want to engrave for chisel or machine engraving.
Is thermo lock safe to use on anything provided you don't overheat it? It won't pull the laquer off cheap jewellery? Leave anything on expensive jewellery, using the craft type heat gun is the best heating meathod i think i have heard... would anyone have a few words to say on thermo lock?
You can make two haves that separate, no need to heat when taking off, take some warm thermolock place some in two plastic bags, bring them together around your piece, shape them accordingly, let dry now you have a mold, of course you would want to do this with a shape you use often.