We do Traditional Hand Engraving using small like chisels into metal. In years past hand engraving was the primary form of engraving. Beautiful hand engraved pocket watches, jewelry and giftware have left us with a history of items that can be found in museums around the world. Unlike today's modern machine engraving, hand engraving creates a timeless heirloom your family will enjoy for generations. Hand engravers are a rare breed of artist and only a select few are capable of doing an engraving of “pictures” on a metal surface, which makes the artist a Master Engraver. This process of learning hand engraving takes years and years of practice. The art is almost extinct as a result of less and less master engravers left.
| What is Hand Engraving |
| 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. Each grver 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 cut points; some cut lines as small as 1mm wide. A 3mm wide line is a huge cut for a hand engraver, and an average size cut would be slightly larger than the period in normal typeset text. Most hand engraving is used to personalize or embellish jewelry, firearms, trophies, knives and other fine metal goods also engraving is so fine that a normal printer can not recreate the detail of hand engraved images. |
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