Hey Guys, well the other day my step son came back home from work and said to me I got you something you might like. He pulled out a engraving pen....battery operated. Said thank you ill give it a try. so today I sat down and freehanded a design on a blade with a sharpie and started engraving with the pen. lets say for a 25.00 bucks Canadian tire product...I think its not bad. Has any one engraved before...tips tricks.... here is my first freehand engraving attempted. Cheers
Thanks Guys, after I posted that picture I had the bug and had to do something on the other side..lol ill be posting a picture soon.
Like it and not bad for an inexpensive product. Combined with acid etching to various degrees and I think it would be pretty wild looking
Hey John, yeah I agree I was thinking about getting the dremel pen adaptor with the engraving bits , that would give me more options and more power. I also thought about the acid etch, just to darken the lines too, or see if I could create some type of shading effect in some areas. With the different bits I could add more details to the images. Now if my wife gives me the green light Ill be off to Canadian tire!
With the acid or bluing compounds you can get: Grey-Ferric Chloride or muriatic acid Dark Grey to Black-Nitol or Nitric Acid Blue to Black with gun bluing Browning was also a old method of protecting rifles, forget the exact mixture but it is online. So there is some potential to do a Sepia type coloring too the engraving and add in gold leaf to make features really stand out. As you can tell I have been spending far to much time trying to figure out how too color steel
Have you worked with gold leaf? Just worried it would be easy to rub off....in and out of the sheath kinda deal...
Was planning on trying it on a handle for a fillet knife. On the blade I imagine it would have to be recessed so it would not wear away, probably not very practical in the long run.
if the engraving is deep enough...ie handle or blade...guess it would add some type of protection to the leaf.... handle you can always add some type of sealant ...
