Deland
Member
I'm a engraver of printing dies (self taught) and use round gravers 90% of the time. I know most of you use 120 square gravers. My question has to do with the tool geometry difference between the two gravers. The reason I use round gravers is that they hold more ink in the line (even in the finest of lines) due to the rounded bottom vs. triangular bottom made by a square graver. But also because the side wall of the cuts are up right vs. the slanted cut from square graver (which would allow the ink to be wiped out when the die is printed).
So my question is "When your engraving is paint/inked black why don't you use round gravers for at least your shading lines?"
This may be a dumb question but from my experience round gravers would seem to be the logical choice.
Thanks!
So my question is "When your engraving is paint/inked black why don't you use round gravers for at least your shading lines?"
This may be a dumb question but from my experience round gravers would seem to be the logical choice.
Thanks!