Beladran
Elite Cafe Member
Maybe for Geico but not engraving!! = ( mater of fact it looks like a blind caveman has been cutting on my practice plate with a dull rock!!
little about me. I have enjoyed metal working from a small age. I made my first knife when I was 14..(I didnt do the engraving)
and really never looked back. The past couple years something has been pulling me towards this and I cant really explain it. The only thing holding me back was $$$$. So finally I had some change saved up and was about to order a Gravermeister. I called my father-in-law(jeweler) and asked him if he had a ball vice laying around I could buy from him.. he said no but I got one you can barrow..(100 year old echarco). I told him I was taking the plung into engraving and was going to order a gravermeister soon as I get off the phone with him and he told me dont bother I got one that we dont use any more. (oil type 1200 spm) Also gave me a optivisor, 2 120 gravers, 2 flat gravers, and one stipple graver. His bench jeweler gave me a quick run down on how to sharpen everything and gave me "The Jewelry Engravers Manual" and said have at it. So I have been scratching on every piece of brass I can get my hands on. I have mainly just been trying to get the feel for the graver and cut a half way straight line. Sometimes I can do it and it looks like a pro cut it.. other times it looks like I fell in a bottle of Crown and I just barely cut the surface or my cuts are so deep you could float a battleship in it.
When I get home in the evening I go out to the shop and fire up the graver and get to cutting and every night when I go in I am thinking "Geezus I suck at this!" but every morning I cant wait to get home and get after it again.
Hi, I'm James and I'm an addict.
little about me. I have enjoyed metal working from a small age. I made my first knife when I was 14..(I didnt do the engraving)
and really never looked back. The past couple years something has been pulling me towards this and I cant really explain it. The only thing holding me back was $$$$. So finally I had some change saved up and was about to order a Gravermeister. I called my father-in-law(jeweler) and asked him if he had a ball vice laying around I could buy from him.. he said no but I got one you can barrow..(100 year old echarco). I told him I was taking the plung into engraving and was going to order a gravermeister soon as I get off the phone with him and he told me dont bother I got one that we dont use any more. (oil type 1200 spm) Also gave me a optivisor, 2 120 gravers, 2 flat gravers, and one stipple graver. His bench jeweler gave me a quick run down on how to sharpen everything and gave me "The Jewelry Engravers Manual" and said have at it. So I have been scratching on every piece of brass I can get my hands on. I have mainly just been trying to get the feel for the graver and cut a half way straight line. Sometimes I can do it and it looks like a pro cut it.. other times it looks like I fell in a bottle of Crown and I just barely cut the surface or my cuts are so deep you could float a battleship in it.
When I get home in the evening I go out to the shop and fire up the graver and get to cutting and every night when I go in I am thinking "Geezus I suck at this!" but every morning I cant wait to get home and get after it again.
Hi, I'm James and I'm an addict.
