[Jewelry making - Article 00221] - Re: [Orchid] Unusual gravers

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    Hi Melissa, 

    I read the post on the MSN forum too... and I was gonna answer it,
    so perhaps you can post my answer over there for me. Just too busy to
    do  everything at once... 

    Once upon a time the gravers you describe were not that  unusual.
    They are not a factory mistake. 

    They were used as you suspected. To overcome the lips and rims of
    spoons,  tureens, cups, bowls, and trays. Hardly anyone these days
    engraves on these  more complex compound curves - partially because
    no one knows how, and  partially because those who still can do it
    really don't want to...  <grin> 

    There is another strangely shaped graver that is used for engraving
    inside  rings and bracelets. These are bent down and to the right or
    left - depending  upon where you need to attack from. Marggi
    Markowitz mentioned them on the MSN forum, because she just learned
    about them here a couple of weeks ago. I had a  ring engraving
    workshop. 

    See both types of tools on page 103 of R. Allen Hardy's "The Jewelry
     Engravers Manual." My copy is a 1976 edition, so I don't know if
    the reprints  since then still have them on the same page. (I
    started engraving in  1969...) 

    By the way some of these were made to be used in combination with
    chasing  tools. I have some photos somewhere showing one of my
    instructors using a  couple. 

    I have a collection of these gravers, and given a time when I'm not
    quite  so busy - I'll be happy to share images of them and
    illustrations of them in use with you or others on either forum. One
    graver that I personally made up for a  job, actually reaches around
    a post that stuck up in the middle of the area  I wanted to engrave.
    Never used it but that one time! 

Back to the bench.  

Brian P.  Marshall
Stockton Jewelry Arts School
Stockton, CA USA
209-477-0550  Workshop/Studio/
instructor AT jewelryartschool.com
jewelryartschool AT aol.com

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