{"id":3863,"date":"2011-11-08T06:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2011-11-07T17:42:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:42:24","slug":"engraving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3863","title":{"rendered":"engraving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, while talking about my work in Seoul, I promised local legend Woo Jin Soon that I would sign my works, after she looked at the backs of my pieces and noted no notation. I completely forgot, until I finished my latest plate work, and thought to myself\u00a0 ‘a promise is a promise’.<\/p>\n

In preparation I borrowed a really fabulous micro motor from a friend, as my old Forbo is a hand me down, and has quite a kick to it. Also, I was keen not to spoil my work, and given that I’m not that hot at engraving, I wanted to give myself any head start I could!<\/p>\n

I went to Koodak<\/a> and had a chat about what bits to use – I’d seen mostly round ones in some demo’s on the net, but there is a proper engraving bit also, so I got a couple of each version, in 0.9mm and 0.7mm.<\/p>\n

Then I practiced. Different metals do different things. Different speeds do different things. Different bits do different things. In the end I just had to choose, and hope for the best.<\/p>\n

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Melissa has a go at engraving her own name. She’s been writing it, almost legibly, for years. Engraving? Maybe not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,109,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-objects","category-process","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}