Hey guys,
I am trying to find out what's the best way to engrave with a dremel.
Is there a website where you could buy a stencil ? Custom stencils ?
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Hey guys,
I am trying to find out what's the best way to engrave with a dremel.
Is there a website where you could buy a stencil ? Custom stencils ?
I'd recommend an extender cord and a fine pointed diamont tip, plus support for your hand and a guide for the dremel. It can be done, but it is so very easy to mess it up and ruin the whole thing in a split second, so preparation is 90% of the battle. Oh, high speed and slow movement. And lots of practice.
Good luck, and let us know how it goes.
I Googled "dremel stencil engraving" and found all kinds of info on it.
Not sure wether you're planning it on an SR but stensils only work nicely on single curved surfaces. Also make sure to have depth control. I would try to find an engraving system or go to jewelry shop.
Good luck
Please don't call anything you do with a dremel "engraving"...
It feels like an insult to those who really can engrave, I'm not one of them even tho I have been engraving a lot.
My plan is to learn it good when my body won't let me do anything else than sit down with gravers, pitch and an old cannon ball.
My advice: don't. Especially on hardened steel like a straight razor.
I can pretty much guarantee it will end in tears.
Not a very helpfull reply..?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
Yes it was. If you must; were safety glasses.
Perhaps not as diplomatic as it could have been. However, what you do with a dremel can only be called engraving in the same way that using a sledgehammer to remove light fixtures can be called 'redecorating'.
And trust me, even with a fine tipped point, the results are really, really underwhelming.
You don't want to do that to a razor. And that is assuming that you don't suddenly have the tip driving over the surface, scratching the hell out of it because it acidentally caught something.
Man, I wouldn't trust myself for a second doing that... Lol.
I'd either get it professionally done or not do it myself unless I had a TON of practice doing it before touching my blade. Just me, though. Best of luck man.
I have been a jeweler for years, using a foredom flex shaft, which is the same thing as a dremel just better quality. I am also a hand engraver (hence the logo to the left) and I would not even think of using a dremel to try to engrave. Just my two cents worth.
A bit hard, but I agree with Lemur really. I learned engraving with purpose made tools (gravers, bullstickers, scorpers, etc):
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a hard sand-filled leather rest and boxwood blanks:
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You can buy air-assisted variable hammer action tools now, mostly used by rifle engravers and costing mega-bucks (GraverMach, NgraveR, etc):
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but if you haven't a knack for the basic process then all the tools in the world won't make an engraver out of you.
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Like Bruno says, comparing work done with a dremel to the real thing is an exercise in futility - the dremel - and tools like them that use a rotary action rather than a hammer action - are a poor imitation at best.
Regards,
Neil
I didn't mean to be harsh, it was like 0600 here and I hadn't had my coffee fix, sorry!
The Dremel and such are fine tools in trained hands, no jeweler want to be without them, tho they mostly use the flexi shaft or some micromotor, but "engraving" as such is an art form, one that I hope I will master one day, at least to some degree.
I can borrow the big GRS Engravers Block, GRS Power Hone Sharpening System and GRS GraverMach from a friend, for "as long as I need them".
I might take the block only, I prefer true hand gravers.
This.... I'm out of words! HAND ENGRAVING TOOLS AND HAND ENGRAVING EQUIPMENT FOR JEWELERS AND ARTISTS. Learn to hand engrave with the patented Lindsay AirGraver Engraving Tools for Hand Engravers, Jewelers and Artists ~ Steve Lindsay
Ah - I knew I had forgotten the best one - thanks Lemur! If I had the money, the Lindsay is what I would go for. I keep hoping to find a UK or EU stockist one day, as the import duties into the UK would be a killer!
As far as I'm aware, most jewellers use flex arm micromotors like dremel and foredom, but for polishing, setting, cutting and so on - engraving (I mean 'proper' engraving - not names and simple designs) is still done by hand.
Regards,
Neil
