Modern letter engraving in theory and practice; a manual for the use of watchmakers, jewelers and other metal engravers .. by Rees Fred Holmes

Author:Rees, Fred Holmes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Engraving (Metal-work)
Publisher: Chicago : Hazlitt

hand up and turning or rolling the tool right and left, quickly and gently, the fine work is done, and as the hand is lowered and turned to the right and left a little farther the wriggling becomes coarser. The student should practice a great deal at this class of work, as it is very useful if well done, but if executed poorly is one of the most abominable manifestations of sin applied to engraving. The graver should be rocked evenly and the pressure forward should be kept the same, thus assuring evenness of the wriggling.

When wriggling with a half round graver, the incision is first cut with the same graver that the wriggling is to be done with, thus making easy the accuracy of wriggling. It is not necessary to do so with the flat tool, but in letter engraving it is often done, to sink the work so deeply that it will not be subjected to wear. The heavy bars of Roman letters are wriggled with good effect if on polished metal and the wriggling is very fine.

Roman, block, and gothic letters are very effectively executed on metals having a satin finish by cutting them with a flat bottom tool that is perfectly polished.

Gothic letters (commonly known as block) are very much improved by squaring up the beginning and ending of each letter with a flat bottom graver a very little larger than the one used to cut the letter. To execute this cut we use the graver nearly the same as we do the square graver to square up the top of a script letter i or t, except that we begin the cut a little to the left of the bar to be squared and push it forward so as to make it lap over on the other side of the bar exactly the same as it does on the other side where we begin. By following this method we square the ends of the letter, giving the bar a swelled appearance, and all is

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