[Jewelry making - Article 01720] - Re: [Orchid] An old engraving block

[Wayne Werner]

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    Don't you just love antique tools! try a small pillow filled with
    sand or steel shot for a support instead of the leather ring. as far
    as the holes being alittle big try getting a set of pins from otto
    frei. a hobby shop or your local hardware store may sell brass
    tubing. you may be able to beef up the pins by adding a piece of
    tubing over them as a spacer to fill the holes on the top of your
    gravers ball. or you can fill the holes with something called JB
    weld, you can get it at a good hardware store...then re drill the
    holes at 1/8 inch. 

    I have alot of tools that came out of the jewlers building in
    baltimore where I trained many years ago. some of these tools are
    about 100 years old.....if they could only talk....................oh
    yea they do....after a quick trip through the looking glass. 

werner
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