Re: Salutations!
Inkling, my remark about elbow power was a referance to using the arm as a hole to push. I can not say enough about this caustion. I have stabbed myself by forgetting and pushing my way through a project to get it done, and I was even stabed by another student at jewelry school while standing next to him to watch him work. The power you can put behind the tool can be far more than you expect. If you slip out of your cut the graver point goes a long distance. Maybe others have a story or two about graver slips.
Also I think a burin is a push graver so you don't have to buy both. chickenscratcher
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