Steel cage microscript lettering challenge

[Sam]

Pretty small there, Kevin! This is an excellent exercise in graver control.
Since it's crazy small, an easy word is fine. "engraver" seems to be a good one, but any word is ok I suppose.

 

[GertGraveur]

Can't beat Sam

 

[Sam]

:clapping:

 

[GertGraveur]

Can't go smaller, it should say Handgraveur...

I'm on 0.19mm for the lower cases, measured Sam-wise

 

[rayf24]

Gert
Thats small what tool did you use and the sharpening geom:clapping::bow::bow:

0.19mm Sam looks like your drinking money on the line:biggrin:

 

[GertGraveur]

Square 90°, 45°face, no heel, yes it's small but not very well cut...

 

[rayf24]

gert
If you have a look at my attempt your's is perfectlly cut. I would be happy if I could do that well at twice the height and thanks for the geom info.

 

[Sam]

very small, Gert! I will try to do another one

 

[Brian Hochstrat]

That is real nice micro script Sam, but why did you cut it so big

 

[Sam]

I had a feeling we'd see something from you, Brian! Ok, let me see what I can come up with!

 

[Sam]

Brian: Here you go...0.2mm (or less) as close as I can measure.

 

[K Frei]

Wow!!!! I tried this, and was happy when I got just under 1mm; even though my lettering looked like a pile of dog mess, that small..... Not that it's much better bigger. Sam I hope to some day shake your hand. That's incredible.

 

[Lee]

What, no gold inlay?

 

[Lee]

I have seen Sam's micro-lettering in person and thought it was a smudge or scratch on the plate until I looked through the microscope........unbelievable.

 

[Lee]

Well done Brian, yours would also be undiscernable without a microscope.

 

[Brian Hochstrat]

Well done Sam, a steel cage match for sure. I'll take off my barlow lens and see if I can go smaller.

 

[Tim Wells]

I'm gonna have to quit reading this and go out to the shop and make a "special" graver...:hammer:

 

[Brian Hochstrat]

Its not cut as well as Sam's, but it is as small as I can go .15 mm as close as I can measure.

You don't realize how wobbly your set up is, until you start working at this scale.

 

[Kevin Scott]

The smallest is about .4mm. Used a 5X loupe like the one in the picture clipped to my reading eyeglasses. Had a hard time getting a decent picture. Used a good "point and shoot" camera, Macro setting. It looks much better than the picture shows, (honest) but not nearly as good as Sam and Brian's. And theirs are much smaller.

This time used a soft steel plate that has a thin blue paint. Was easier than the nickel used before.
Maybe this will get me in the top 20.
Kevin Scott

 

[Andrew Biggs]

This morning, just before breakfast, I engraved the entire King James version of the bible, as it was translated from the original Hebrew, complete with references and index, on the head of a pin using a fly's hair split in half as a graver.

Oh yeah, if anyone's interested, I used old English as the font just to keep it authentic looking and my only magnification was an 1.5 optivisor.

My apologies in advance for the poor quality photo but unfortunately my camera is not really up to the task as you can see.

Cheers
Andrew

PS. I was thinking of illuminating the headings but that would have just been a bit of overkill