{"id":3876,"date":"2011-11-09T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2011-11-09T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:20:25","slug":"engraving-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3876","title":{"rendered":"engraving tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to <a title=\"engraving\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3863\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> on engraving, here are a couple of shots of the burrs that I was using. The first is a #2 Busch burr (the gentle folk at <a title=\"Koodak!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koodak.com.au\/main.php\" target=\"_blank\">Koodak<\/a> called it that) and the second is a straight up round burr. The ones in the image are the 0.9mm ones, though I ended up using\u00a0 the 0.7 #2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=3879\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3879\" title=\"both burrs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/both-burrs-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/both-burrs-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/both-burrs-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/both-burrs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/both-burrs.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3878\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=3878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3878\" title=\"2 burr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2-burr-600x421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2-burr-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2-burr-440x309.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2-burr-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2-burr.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the so-called #2 burr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3877\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=3877\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3877\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3877\" title=\"1 round burr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1-round-burr-600x428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1-round-burr-600x428.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1-round-burr-440x314.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1-round-burr-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1-round-burr.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">round burr (or spherical burr, perhaps?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the difference? Well, to my eye the #2 produces a more traditional <em>engraved<\/em> appearance &#8211;\u00a0 suited more\u00a0to your calligraphic style of handwriting perhaps? Whereas the sphere was more like a marker pen, writes on everything easily but has a duller tone. The #2 produces edges in the metal that catch the light, while the sphere, by its nature, lends itself to producing more of a matte surface. As ever, it depends on what surface finish you&#8217;re after.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3880\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=3880\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3880\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3880\" title=\"round versus no 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/round-versus-no-2-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/round-versus-no-2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/round-versus-no-2-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/round-versus-no-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2011\/11\/round-versus-no-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the top two versions are with the #2, the bottom one is with the sphere. Oh yeah, and my actual signature looks nothing like this \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burrs!<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-objects","category-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","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=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}