engraving supply

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Hand Engraving is the act of carving decorative or functional grooves into a substrate, usually a metal plate, using hand tools such as small chisels called burin or gravers. SMU Engraving Supply.

Each graver is different and has its own use. There are round gravers which make round cuts, and 90 degree gravers which make right angle cuts, just to name a few. These gravers have very small cutting points, some cut lines as small as 1mm wide. For example a 3mm wide line is a huge cut for a hand engraver, and an average size cut would be slightly larger than the period at the end of this sentence.

Most hand engraving is used to personalize or embellish jewelry, firearms, trophies, knives and other fine metal goods. We supply a complete line of engraving materials, stock, sheets, fonts and more. Dies used in mass production of molded parts are sometimes hand engraved to add special touches or certain information such as part numbers. Hand engraving is also used to make plates for printing money, checks, bonds and other security sensitive papers, because the engraving is so fine that a normal printer can not recreate the detail of hand engraved images, nor can it be scanned. In the U. S.

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