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Offline jerrywh

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Re: Nick and Dot
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2016, 09:07:34 PM »
 Here is one tip. you will have a lot better luck doing nick and dot if you put a 25° heel on the graver because it helps coming out of the cut. With a low heel the comming out cut will usually look very jagged unless the nick is very shallow. When I do nick and dot I do it best wit ha hammer and chisel. OR if I use the gravermach I slow the stroke down to about three or four strokes a second If I want it perfect. 
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Re: Nick and Dot
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2016, 09:41:06 PM »
"Dive, dive, dive, pull up, pull up, pull up!" ....the oft repeated mantra when nick and dotting.
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Re: Nick and Dot
« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2016, 05:00:59 AM »
I have a few different ways I do it but I've never found a real "tutorial" about its technique. I've done with flat,square 90,120 and plunging perpendicular. All seem to have their benefits but for me it's just repeating evenly. I can do it with h/c or my Lindsay but generally my air graver gives me better results.
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Offline Carl Young

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Re: Nick and Dot
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2016, 08:16:12 AM »
Quote from: Acer Saccharum on January 15, 2016, 09:41:06 PM
".... pull up, pull up, pull up!" ....the oft repeated mantra when nick and dotting.

Sounds like a flight instructor to me.... :D
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Offline Ron Scott

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Re: Nick and Dot
« Reply #29 on: January 16, 2016, 08:41:21 PM »
American Pioneer Video has the engraving Tutorial done by Wallace Gussler. The nick and dot border in its various forms is demonstrated .
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