[handengraverdave]

Hello my name is David. I have been engraving for a couple years now. I do not engrave in metal, however I engrave into glass and mirrors. I would love to learn the art of metal engraving and figured I would start here. Let me jst say I have seen some amazing metal work here on Mr Lindsay's site and also some really great work on this forum. I know nothing about metal engraving except it looks really cool and takes alot of time and you can get very small and highly detailed work using a microscope. I have been an artist just about my whole life. I doodled and drew in school alot of times to the dismay of teachers. I never really took it serious until I had my first daughter with my wife and had to stop running the roads and help her raise first one then two daughters. I had time at home and needed something to entertain myself during off hours. Anyway long story short started back drawing but with realistic qualities and then moved to airbrush and then brush painting, then back to really detailed and realistic pencil drawings then used the high detail style on glass. It is amazing how detailed and how many different tones you can get with glass. I also apprenticed and learned the art of tattooing. I finally gave in to my friend who was a tattoo artist and he tried for almost three years to get me to learn the artform so finally I decided to learn. I never stop learning and I am always eager to learn something new. I have had a few people ask my if i did metal engraving and decided I would look into it. :whoo: I try and make all my work look as real as possible, I have always been more of a realistic style artist and some of the metal engravings I am seeing are very real looking. I don't know how this forum feels about glass engraving but hopefully I am welcome here anyway.

One question I have a rotary drill tool that I engrave in all types of glass with, from mirror to automotive windows to large sheets of quarter inch glass with can this type of tool be used to engrave in metal? Just wondering as I use diamond and stone burrs for glass and I would assume that some metal items could be engraved with it but I really dont know of any techniques and as far as I know the engravings here was done with airgraver or with the other Lindsey tools. I would assume carbide and diamond burrs would be most effective on metal using the rotary tool. Sorry this is long just wanted to give a brief history of me and ask a couple questions. I will post a link if anyone wants to see some glass work just let me know.

Thanks
David Melton