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Old 03-03-2016, 10:58 AM
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Default Re: New to engraving.

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Originally Posted by Mark Diorio View Post
Most people would have no idea what the thing is on the far right of the picture of my tools. It is a dental material called "green stick". We use it to melt along the edge of an impression tray and then while it is still warm and soft, we place the tray in the patient's mouth and form the soft plastic to the shape of their gums.

Well, I cut 3 holes on a small block of wool, melted the green stick into the holes and come red the top of the wood block with about a 1/4" of the material. Now all I have to do is to reheat the top of the compound, embed the piece (in my case, coins), and let it cool. Now I can hold the block of wood or put it into my bench vise. Later, after watching a few European YouTube videos, I found that a lot of engravers use shellac in the same manner. Lol.
Hi Mark,
That sounds like a thermoplastic. In '98 Tyler Teague came out with a product called Jettsett that is a thermoplastic. Recently he improved it by adding Kevlar. It icalled Jett Ballistic.
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