Daniel Houwer
03-10-2008, 07:05 PM
My name is Daniel.
I am goldsmith and diamond setter and as a hobby I try to work with techniques that our ancient forefathers used to work with metal.
We (the group I'm in) make smelting furnace's to make iron (200bc) cast bronze (1500bc up to 1000ad) and we are blacksmithing up to the end of the viking era.
A lot of our casting models are carved/engraved out of bone.
At school I had some engraving lessons but they were no good alas and a long time ago.
With my work as setter I do use the graver a lot. Since about a year I have a gravermax at my work and want one in my own workshop since.
The Lindsay graver looks much better though and for what I have heard works just as well or even better. So I've got some things to figure out and hope you can help me with that choice. I stil manly use the push gravers because I don't have a lot of time to play at work.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d51/danielhouwer123/briljantalliancecrop.jpg
So far I've really enjoyed reading the post's on this forum. Very helpfull!!! Some of the tutorials are brilliant. I've made a few myself, but for a dutch forum for goldsmiths. Sorry that they won't do any good here.
Hopefully I can be of use to you at some point, but for now I'll be mainly at the asking side. (and I don't know how to put in the icons at the bottem when you are posting something :-( )
Greetings to you all,
Daniel
I am goldsmith and diamond setter and as a hobby I try to work with techniques that our ancient forefathers used to work with metal.
We (the group I'm in) make smelting furnace's to make iron (200bc) cast bronze (1500bc up to 1000ad) and we are blacksmithing up to the end of the viking era.
A lot of our casting models are carved/engraved out of bone.
At school I had some engraving lessons but they were no good alas and a long time ago.
With my work as setter I do use the graver a lot. Since about a year I have a gravermax at my work and want one in my own workshop since.
The Lindsay graver looks much better though and for what I have heard works just as well or even better. So I've got some things to figure out and hope you can help me with that choice. I stil manly use the push gravers because I don't have a lot of time to play at work.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d51/danielhouwer123/briljantalliancecrop.jpg
So far I've really enjoyed reading the post's on this forum. Very helpfull!!! Some of the tutorials are brilliant. I've made a few myself, but for a dutch forum for goldsmiths. Sorry that they won't do any good here.
Hopefully I can be of use to you at some point, but for now I'll be mainly at the asking side. (and I don't know how to put in the icons at the bottem when you are posting something :-( )
Greetings to you all,
Daniel