how to do basic engraving cuts for beginners.

[@ceciliacrijnen9254]

Thank you for sharing exactly what nobody else shears good tips! including how learning and using your engraving skills gave you scars.

[@justinemajewelry7908]

Thanks a lot for the great video. Congratulations for the new workshop, looking forward to see it!

[@metalofhonour]

@justinemajewelry7908 I hadn't seen this message. Thank you. A new video coming tomorrow, then back to normal schedule. Thanks for watching and thank you. Been a tough few weeks, but I'm in the new place.

[@goldball328]

Thank you so much for sharing! I learned so much from your video. I’ll start practicing on some scrap. Looking forward to incorporating some engraving basics into my pieces. Please keep the videos coming on jewelry making. I’ve watched them all. You are an excellent teacher!

[@metalofhonour]

@@goldball328 that's great. Thanks for watching them all. A new one will be on tomorrow night gmt. Then back to weekly. Keep learning 👍🏼

[@ceceliahuynh]

Damn, that was peculiarly satisfying to watch - such precision cutting. Keep up the great content! 👍

[@metalofhonour]

@ceceliahuynh thank you for watching. It's only a basic video, which will lead to a more in depth version at some stage. Thanks again.

[@DeclanHannigan-t9p]

Love your videos. Thank you so much for amazing tips. Look forward to seeing more of them.

[@metalofhonour]

@DeclanHannigan-t9p thanks for the kind words. I may be quite for a couple of weeks while I shut business for the workshop move. Be back though guaranteed. Thank you.

[@sdfwoodworks]

Very happy that I've found your channel. I am learning a great deal from you. I was about tomes about sharpening the gravers when you mentioned your sharpening video. Thank you.

[@metalofhonour]

@@sdfwoodworks no problem at all. I appreciate you watching. Thank you. 👍🏼

[@____julia____]

This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing, love your style of delivery ❤

[@metalofhonour]

@____julia____ thanks for watching. Much appreciated and there's lots more to see. Thanks again.

[@tabasdezh]

Thank you for this great tutorial 👌

[@metalofhonour]

@tabasdezh appreciate you watching. Hopefully when I move workshop, I'll be able to get better footage and a more in depth tutorial. 👍🏼

[@tabasdezh]

​@@metalofhonour thanks.

[@theyakninja]

Great video! My engraving skills aren't great, so I appreciate the tips to improve. I don't have a pneumatic engraver, just a hammer handpiece for a pendant motor, which is pretty awkward to hold. P.S. Do you accept topic requests for future videos? I have quite a few things I struggle with that nobody covers properly.

[@metalofhonour]

@theyakninja it can all be done by hand anyway for engraving and stone setting. I didn't have my air graver until I was 18 years into jewellery making. About the same for a hammer handpiece. You're more than welcome to make suggestions. I have a list of over 30 videos to make so far. It may even be on there. 👍🏼 thanks for watching.

[@theyakninja]

​@@metalofhonour Thank you! Are there ways to make bevels precisely? Let's say you've made a ring blank nice and perfectly round, and the shank is nice and perfectly square. Now, you start to file it by hand for a comfort fit, and it starts looking like crap. After polishing, most of that goes away, but it's just hiding the ugly truth; it doesn't look nice and crisp anymore. How do you size collets precisely? I measure the size of the stone on the outer edge and maybe a little less, then put prongs one-third of the thickness in. It usually ends up being too big for the stone. Can you do pavé or flush setting using only round burrs if you don't have a setting burr of precisely the correct size? I often see videos where people easily just drill a thousand holes, widen them with a round burr, make prongs with a cylindrical burr, then push the stones in really snug and boom! Pavé. I tried to do that, but it doesn't work for me.

[@metalofhonour]

@theyakninja for the collets size, you just need to file or sand down the top, so that the width is a fraction smaller than the stone width. Some grain setting will be on a video in a few weeks of the two tone colour ring. I do have flush (gypsy) setting on my list. And for the inner bevel, that is going to be soon, as I'll be making the shank for the six claw setting that I made recently, so I'll make sure I mention about that technique. Very simple too, but easier to show in a vid. 👍🏼

[@theyakninja]

@@metalofhonour That's great, really looking forward to it

[@paulknapp2223]

Mate where have ya gone?

[@metalofhonour]

@paulknapp2223 taking ages moving into the new place. I should be set up this time next week. So much has been needed for this move. Hopefully have a new vid for next weekend. Already recorded a couple of weeks ago, just haven't had the camera n lights set up for commentary. But back soon. And to stay. Hope you've been well. 👍🏼

[@paulknapp2223]

@@metalofhonour mate did you underestimate the move lol

[@metalofhonour]

@@paulknapp2223 nah. I knew it would be hell, but I'm always very optimistic and kind of hoped it would be easier than the last couple of times 🤣

[@Sheepdog1314]

You don’t practice on silver. That’s a big waste. You practice on brass.

[@metalofhonour]

@Sheepdog1314 no way. You couldn't be more wrong sadly. Practice on brass if you want to be an engraver for shed and garden signs. Brass is bitty and grainy with no similar characteristics to silver. If someone can't afford to spare an offcut of silver, which they'll melt down anyway and re-use (meaning zero waste cost), get some copper. Copper is more similar to silver resistance of the cut in hand. Use brass if you want to actually payout money for a test piece that can't be used again. Brass is a waste and terrible choice.