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Old 04-01-2010, 12:04 AM
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Hi all-- I've just joined the forum and am amazed at the work I see. I'm coming from a ceramics sculpture background with a habit of making intricate line drawings like the ones I've posted. I am excited to try my hand at engraving metals in similar patterns. Isn't there a saying about a long journey beginning with one step?

I am about to order some tool steel form McMaster Carr to hack up into gravers, if the price isn't too high. I have some basic metalworking experience and have access to a jewler's studio/tools to make the gravers. Let's see what happens on copper first!

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Marc
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Old 04-01-2010, 11:42 AM
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Welcome to the forum!

Before you spend too much time making your own gravers you might want to check out the thread in the General Discussion forum with a title like "An Inexpensive way to give it a try". It's a sticky thread up at the top.

Making gravers isn't the bit that will be the real problem for you (since you have access to the equipment to neatly cut them from proper steel). Getting them properly sharpened, however...

Your designs should look really nice as engravings.
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