[Tim Wells]

Ray,
I appreciate you taking the time out of becoming a millionair knife engraver to break that down for all to see. :whoo: Well written!

I've written that down a few times for folks that come by the shop to get introduced to engraving equipment of various types. Everyone that has been by here to try my old gravermax and the three Lindsay tools sitting on my bench with absolutely no prodding from me has went home and ordered a classic. One guy got a classic and then a Palm Control not long after. I've always been strictly unbiased in letting them "play" and let them come to their own conclusions.

When a tool works like it should no matter who makes it, it'll sell itself with no help needed from me. One of the things that aggrevated me so much about the Gravermax is that they don't tell you that you have to have all these other handpieces for different things; you have to know to ask, same with the gravermeister I had. I updated the RPM to the modern verson and had to buy new handpieces as the old ones wouldn't work. They didn't tell me that or I wouldn't have bothered and put it on eBay as is, or was I should say.

And any given handpiece, say a 901 won't operate in the entire stroke per minute range or varying air pressures; I always had to fool with it to dial it in and then do it all over again when I changed handpieces which didn't take long to frustrate me enough to relegate it to stippling duty.

When I got that Artisan handpiece, I sold the Gravermax to help pay for the Palm conversion to my Classic and I use it for everything but stippling which the Artisan now does among other things.