[Jewelry making - Article 00087] - Re: [Orchid] Full set of 'finished' Onglette gravers!

[R . E . Rourke]

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Gerry

    for many years I have received your notes, and tips. They are truly
    a gift to the jewelery community and your generosity is overwhelming
    at supplying the copious amounts of photocopies and posting, etc. BUT
    I have also used gravers before I met you via Orchid. I have
    successfully ground them on a non mechanized wheel and then onto a
    power hone (before it met an ill-fated death by water!) with
    equally successful results for 30 years of grinding them. They can
    most certainly be shaped by machine. Hand polishing at this point is
    also equally as mirror finished whether by a 3Mpolishing paper,
    crocus cloth, glass cloth, emery, or by any number of compounds on
    any number of different buffing wheels of various materials and
    sewing's and cores to produce a mirror finish on whatever the
    material the specific graver in hand is made of regardless of how the
    mirror finish is achieved. by hand or machine both shine the same,
    and the finish lasts the same. 

    Yes it is valuable to know how to do these things by hand. .if not
    critical at a point in ones complete education as a jewelry
    professional, however. .when time becomes a factor, and as All
    gravers must be repeatedly sharpened to retain their cutting edges.
    .particularly if stone setting. I know I read that in your onglette
    notes, and many many books and magazine articles on the subject all
    attesting to the necessity of continual sharpening. So they can be
    shaped by hand and machine, and polished by hand and machine, and
    sharpened while in use with stone, polishing papers, power hone or
    whatever the means one employs to keep them true, sharp, mirror
    finished and in good service. It matters not whether done by hand or
    machine assisted prior to the constant sharpening they all need when
    in use in any application. I don't want beginners to think there is
    only one way to do anything -particularly an art or creative
    process- there are as many ways to execute things as artists , once
    one has a thorough knowledge of the basics- in this case how to form
    and sharpen a graver for use in setting, engraving, printmaking, etc.
    The toys that are sold to expedite the maintenance come later. but
    are none-the-less equally valuable and with the same results
    possible. 

R. E. Rourke
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