Engraving texture without a design

Arnaud Van Tilburgh · Jan 23, 2009

This is a different way to use an engraver.
The structure on this Titanium wedding ring is cut with a 120Â° square engraver.
I have some other ideas to cut different structures I show them later.
After cutting, I sandblasted the surface and polished the upper surface to ad some contrast between matt and shiny.
I have also cut a file with a flat engraver to fit the golden band.
Hope you like this one

arnaud

Peter E · Jan 23, 2009

Very creative Arnaud. I like the texture very much and the smooth ring accentuates it well.

Thanks for posting it.

Peter

Leonardo · Jan 23, 2009

Hi Arno,

This is a fine-looking wedding ring and very exclusive because of the random pattern. Congrats on that!
By the way, are you using a titanium tube or a welded band to make the rings?

Keep up the good work!
Leonardo.

Christian DeCamillis · Jan 23, 2009

Arnaud. Thanks for showing how to think outside the box. When teaching to goldsmiths I always tell them to think of the tool not only for engraving traditional designs,but you could do textures as well. A lot of the kind of textures possible to do couldnt be duplicated any other way. The other usefulness for power assist is to think of it as a tool for clean up of castings etc... Its possible to get into inside corners and such that are otherwise very difficult. So by thinking about how the tool operates you can come up with ways to use it that it was never intended for. Thanks again Arnaud. keep posting your brilliant ideas here so others can start seeing as you do in a different light Chris

Arnaud Van Tilburgh · Jan 23, 2009

Leonardo said:
Hi Arno,

This is a fine-looking wedding ring and very exclusive because of the random pattern. Congrats on that!
By the way, are you using a titanium tube or a welded band to make the rings?

Keep up the good work!
Leonardo.

Leonardo, I have plates of different thickness, I weld them in a way I still can stretch them 4mm.
This allows me to make other models that can't be made with tube like this one

And thanks for the compliment on the wedding ring

Leonardo · Jan 23, 2009

I can see... those are really nice pieces too!
Congrats again and thank you for your answer!
All the best, Leonardo.

jetta77 · Jan 23, 2009

I'm a goldsmith too!!! Excellent stuff Aurnad...
Jeff

Peter E · Jan 24, 2009

Christian DeCamillis said:
Arnaud. Thanks for showing how to think outside the box. When teaching to goldsmiths I always tell them to think of the tool not only for engraving traditional designs,but you could do textures as well. A lot of the kind of textures possible to do couldnt be duplicated any other way. The other usefulness for power assist is to think of it as a tool for clean up of castings etc... Its possible to get into inside corners and such that are otherwise very difficult. So by thinking about how the tool operates you can come up with ways to use it that it was never intended for. Thanks again Arnaud. keep posting your brilliant ideas here so others can start seeing as you do in a different light Chris

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