[Jewelry making - Article 00069] - Re: [Orchid] An old engraving block

[Brian P. Marshall]

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    Various objects will work as base for your block... look around. I've
    seen Tupperware, plastic pipe fittings, rubber cart and lawn mower
    wheels, training wheels for bicycles - almost anything round with a
    depression that fits your particular block will work. 

    You then change it's characteristics by lining with leather, cloth, a
    rag, or adding nylon "studs" to raise the block and act as a bearing
    surface. Depends on how much drag you want. We use the nylon studs on
    ours. 

    If you can wait a few months, 'till I can drag all the equipment back
    into an area I can use - I still own a saddle shop - and I plan to
    put it back into working order. I can make you an exact duplicate of
    the original. Even stuff it with flaxseed or horsehair... 

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