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Old 03-03-2016, 02:19 AM
Mark Diorio Mark Diorio is offline
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Vineland, NJ
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Default Re: New to engraving.

Thank you Roger. Yes, I am very determined and yes, you can get started in this art form with some very inexpensive and rudimentary tools. 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.

Yes, I will not be putting a graver to any of my guns until I have a lot more experience under my belt and only after I take a few classes from an experienced teacher/gun engraver. I value my guns too much to ruin them with my childlike scratching a. Lmao
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