Help, please: Cheap ring Pad for engraving?

sybred

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Do you know how to do your own base like a ring Pad for engraving? Or maybe some tutorials? Thank you.
 

Chujybear

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If you are doing big pieces, then I guess you could see your own out of leather. Fill it with shot.
If you are doing jewellery engraving you can just use a piece of appropriate sized plate, or plywood screwed to a dowel.
 

mgdesigns

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Do you know how to do your own base like a ring Pad for engraving? Or maybe some tutorials? Thank you.

Are you needing a ring pad for an engravers ball vise? Or just a pad to place items directly onto for engraving?
 

Marrinan

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I bought a 25 lb bag of Number 8 bird shoot, lead, and put enough duct tape on it to be pretty much puncture prof. Cove with a Chummy and there you go. For inside ring work I have small hardwood blocks I drilled about .25 deep with spade bits then cut down to below center. You can put them in the vise. Fred
 

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