Noobie question

[Nofd1977]

Hello folks, been on the site for a while reading all the wonderfully info on engraving from all the knowledge on here. I really would love to jump into this unique craft aside from my jewelry. I guess my first question would be is there any beginner machines and videos anybody would recommend to help get me started? Thanks for having me and glad to be here

 

[mrthe]

welcome to the forum!
If you are jeweler a must to have DVD is Successful jewelery engraving
you can find it heare
http://www.engraving-videos.com/
is very helpfull and you will love it

 

[Sam]

Welcome to the Cafe, Nofd. There's some used equipment listed in the Buy & Sell section. I'm a GRS user so that's the equipment I'm familiar with and use every day. The Gravermax G8 or Graversmith are excellent machines with less bells & whistles than the flagship GraverMach AT. Coupled with a 901 handpiece you can do a variety of engraving from jewelry to guns. I also recommend getting a sharpening system so your gravers are prepared and sharpened perfectly every time.

If you can take a class, it will make equipment selection a lot easier for you.

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Welcome as well Nofd,
Besides all the useful info you can find here, you also will find lots of video, demonstrations over here. There is a special chapter for beginner engravers in the "video blog" section and the free pdf documents to practice. All are free to watch or download.
Besides the GRS systems Sam's talking about, there is also the En-Set.

arnaud

 

[mrthe]

Like Sam say ,take care and try to buy a good sharpening system,a good sharpened graver make the difference and save you a lot of problems whatever type of engraving method you will use,push H & C or neumatic system

 

[Robert Jobe]

Take a good class somewhere before you buy anything. I like GRS classes, always full of great people. Good luck

 

[Tim Wells]

I have a two CD set of Don Glaser that I'll give you. It has some basic information, a little humor, and a short conversation with James B. Meek at the end. PM your address and I'll send it to you and you can go from there. Can't beat the price...

 

[unclejim1955]

Lots of video you can watch on youtube and engraversstudio.com. I think most of us, me included, tried to ease into it. So many aspects are interconnected, before long you realize it requires a pretty big leap, but worth every bit of it.

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Tim, free always can beat the price

Arbaud

 

[Nofd1977]

Thanks for all the replies fellas. I thank you for all the advice. Tim I will PM you with my addy and thanks so much.

 

[Mike Cirelli]

Nofd get Sam's video on sharpening to start with. With you being a jeweler you'll understand it quickly. A graver sharpened correctly will knock off many hours of disapointment. http://www.engraving-videos.com/info_graver_sharpening.html There's some great info on the engraversstudio.com also.