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When we were solely doing engravings by hand and by manual mechanical engravings we had a few "fonts" to choose from and it was kinda nice to not bog Clients down with choices. Now that we are in full swing with laser engravings, the available fonts are nearly unlimited. Of course, with hand ...

We recently had to engrave a Benchmade knife with S30V steel. I was scared to engrave this because I had not done an engraving on this type of steel and it was for someone else. I did not have a practice piece, and there are no preconfigured settings. After a lot of other testing on steels and ...

We recently purchased several Spancal Morphvises to be used at the bench. I am not sure how much usage we will get out of them, but as part of our continuous search for +1% more efficiency we shall see how these work.

Approximately how long did it take to get this scan?

Did you take a lot of images or snapshots to get a higher resolution or more thorough scan?

Did you do any editing of the scan within the software?

There is a ladies round dial Gucci yellow metal watch with black trim, a single lug on top and a single lug on bottom (two lugs total), that sometimes comes in for battery replacements. This watch has a crystal on the front and on the back.

FRONT:
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BACK:
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To ...

My first guess is a poor imitation of a tiger's eye link. This is just based off of a Google Image Search using the image you provided. The links in the chain you provided seem to be longer. The lack of uniformity is probably due to it being made by hand in an unregulated and most likely not quality ...

There are very generally two different thicknesses of watch back, thin/light and thick/heavy. This is a very intentional over-generalization, but keeping this in mind is helpful when it comes to engraving stainless steel watch backs.

"THICK" or "HEAVIER" Stainless Steel Watch Backs
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Hey, I just found your topic here. I am looking into engraving my first rings. Sadly I can't see your pictures here. Can you re-post them? Its my first time with expensive rings and I want to get it right. :-)


No pictures were posted. The following quote is not saying there is an image in the ...

For the inside ring engraving, after several more tests, I am leaning towards running TWO JOBS of the following (run one job, then reprocess it without moving anything):

Text [Centaur]
Engrave
Fiber IR laser type
70 % power range
400 mm/s
2 pass
Bi-Directional engraving mode
30 kHz

Running this ...

The following testing was done, using a rotary, on a 14 karat white gold mens ring that was approximately 2.21mm thick and 6.57mm wide (actually it varies and I did not measure it) where it was engraved. Using the following settings I was able to get fine details and very clear legibility with text ...