hey, wait one ! i once carved the gettysburg address on a toothpick with a chainsaw. i cant find the foto, though.
Lords Prayer on a pinhead
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mdengraver
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Lords Prayer on a Pinhead and other Miniature Work
Miniature Work
http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=157
Graham Short Miniature Engraver
http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?/section.asp?catid=178&docid=2400
http://www.grahamshortengraving.co.uk/engraving.php
Miniature Work
http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=157
Graham Short Miniature Engraver
http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?/section.asp?catid=178&docid=2400
http://www.grahamshortengraving.co.uk/engraving.php
pilkguns
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I fail to understand why he could only make two or three strokes per day and it would take months to complete. If you have fine motor control to make 3 strokes why not 5 or 10 or 20
Arnaud Van Tilburgh
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He probably only could count to three as he also needed three years to engrave it.:just kidding:
"It took master engraver Godfrey Lundberg three years (1913-1915) to painstakingly inscribe the twelve lines"
arnaud
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Arnaud Van Tilburgh
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Sure I’m a non believer about the “The Lord's Prayer engraved on the head of a pinâ€
And why did he not sign his work? :big grin:
As I will have to see this with my own eyes. But searching around on the Internet, it seems one can see the pin as it is in a museum.
So did someone of us see that pin life under the microscope?
It seems the pin head is 2 mm, anyone who would give it a try? Just the first three letters, otherwise we will have to wait three years. :just kidding:
arnaud
And why did he not sign his work? :big grin:
As I will have to see this with my own eyes. But searching around on the Internet, it seems one can see the pin as it is in a museum.
So did someone of us see that pin life under the microscope?
It seems the pin head is 2 mm, anyone who would give it a try? Just the first three letters, otherwise we will have to wait three years. :just kidding:
arnaud
KCSteve
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Our beloved dictator, Sam Alfano has done work in that size range.
Let me go look on the GRS site for his Airtach penny....
Found it! click here
Let me go look on the GRS site for his Airtach penny....
Found it! click here
Barry Lee Hands
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A cronite zero could do that easy enough.
The problem with the prison story is, how would the guards notice engraved pins?
The problem with the prison story is, how would the guards notice engraved pins?
Roger Bleile
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ROTFLMAO:big grin::big grin::big grin: You kill me Monk! Did you lose the photo of the toothpick or the chainsaw?
Roger
Mario Sarto
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I tried my smallest engraving on this euro-cent. The hight is 0,7 mm (the "M" letter). The four gray points around are 2 mm width.
I have to say, i really can't believe this pin-head engraving-story done by hand ...
Regards, Mario.
I have to say, i really can't believe this pin-head engraving-story done by hand ...
Regards, Mario.
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Arnaud Van Tilburgh
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Mario, thank you for taking the time to give it a try.
Myself I already was convinced I could not do one letter, the size of those that are on the pinhead. Of course we are no “master engravers”. :big grin:
If I do some mathematics, There are 13 lines on a circle of 2 mm, taking charge of the space between every line means every letter is about 0,12 mm high.
So in my opinion there is only one hand tool that could do this, a tiny bulino tool.
The wide of your “Mario cut is approximately the height of one letter.
Never the less in my opinion only a crazy one would like to spend three years on something that can’ bee seen.
I don’t know much about A cronite zero, problem is the cutting tool in my opinion, even a needle is to wide.
So it could probably be done by a laser engraving, but in my opinion not with a mechanical tool or by hand.
But I always will correct myself if I’m wrong when I see it with my own eyes.
Perhaps Phill could do this, Katherine Plumer sure she can.
BTW Mario, nice lettering on the euro cent :big grin:
here is the image
arnaud
Myself I already was convinced I could not do one letter, the size of those that are on the pinhead. Of course we are no “master engravers”. :big grin:
If I do some mathematics, There are 13 lines on a circle of 2 mm, taking charge of the space between every line means every letter is about 0,12 mm high.
So in my opinion there is only one hand tool that could do this, a tiny bulino tool.
The wide of your “Mario cut is approximately the height of one letter.
Never the less in my opinion only a crazy one would like to spend three years on something that can’ bee seen.
I don’t know much about A cronite zero, problem is the cutting tool in my opinion, even a needle is to wide.
So it could probably be done by a laser engraving, but in my opinion not with a mechanical tool or by hand.
But I always will correct myself if I’m wrong when I see it with my own eyes.
Perhaps Phill could do this, Katherine Plumer sure she can.
BTW Mario, nice lettering on the euro cent :big grin:
here is the image
arnaud
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Mario Sarto
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hard to believe ...
Willem Parel
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I agree :thumbs up:
Marrinan
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I dont know about that crazy bisiness. The fellow who did the tiny micro carving from England that was post here a while back. The one with Stute of Liberty in the eyeof a needle and about twenty to thirty pieces and he sold to collector for 22,000,000. Not bad pay for a few years work. Fred
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