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I've always been a big-vise engraver - that's why my old Ray LaTourneau Block has always occupied Engraving Bench #1.
Sorry old friend, I moved the 45lb LaTourneau to Bench #2 this afternoon shortly after my new 90 pound Lindsay Titan arrived. ![]() This thing is massive, and unpacking and lifting it in place no easy task. It's also smooooooth, and it doesn't move - at all! For all the good things I can say about the LaTourneau, it's biggest downfall is that it still sits on one of those silly rubber tires, and it just feels spongy. I had gotten used to that, and it really didn't occur to me that the new Lindsay Titan would "work" so solidly. Seriously, the graver action is far more effective when the block (no matter what its weight) sits solidly on the bench, and without the rubber tire absorbing some of the impact of the graver strike. This big boy sits on a solid aluminum ring lined with hard leather - the leather provides enough "tac" to keep the ball tightly held in place. The tension between the block and the base is enough enough that works equally as well with the air graver and the hammer and chisel. I had been working this Python for the past few weeks. When I placed it in the Titan and started to engraved new lines and scrolls I felt the subtle differences in the graver action immediately. ![]() I have some major inlay and sculpting work to do on this gun, and I just know that all that heavy pounding is going to be so much more effective in this block. Re: GRS Positioning Block - that used to be at bench #2...now it's in storage. I'm not much of a Microscope user anyway, and it was the heaviest non-LaTourneau available. It's for sale................ |
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Glad it arrived safe, Mike!.. And it is going right to work! As the Python projects moves along if time allows, please post more pictures of the project.
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Super Mike! Thank you for adding more photos of this Python project! Do you have some custom jaws bolted on to the vise? If so, is it using the large 3/8" bolt holes in the top of the jaws or the 1/4" bolt holes?
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Great work, as usual, Mike. Your work is inspirational to us newbies. That is a huge vise. I'm going to be buying one of Steve's Goliath vises as soon as he has one that is ready to ship. I'm assuming that as a newbie (just under one year since starting engraving), that a Goliath should serve me well for quite some time?
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Hi
Mike thank you for the work in progress pictures of the python revolver. The pictures were interesting and intuitive. Most Appreciated SE ![]()
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Steve is probably already working on a vise big enough for helicopter parts...
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Hi Mark, A guesstimate for when the updated stainless Goliaths are ready is mid to late January.
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I loved always as a youth looking at that dome driving by in the family car. Later in years watching it being restored. Now to see it engraved on a gun. Thanks, Cliff
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Thanks, Steve. |
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