Flat, onglette, round scorpers (if you're raising beads rather than cutting down around them). Everything in Jason's video is, IIRC, done with an onglette & a flat.
I still use my "basic" gravers & scorpers as well as the Airgraver.
Seriously? People have been engraving and setting with gravers & scorpers for centuries. Powered engraving tools are a very recent development by comparison. Yes, they make a few things easier, but there's nothing can be done with them that can't be done by hand.
Have a look at the Art of Setting by Grether for some advice on traditional setting methods.
Hoo thats great! I will check and study them..
So come the next thing..
Is the old microscope like 8 years old are functional as new ones?
A friend told me to buy a leica a60 but is way too much for me.
Advice for a microscope with a maximun budget of 550$ ? Used or new ... wich ine should i take?
There are better optics around, there are worse. My Nikon is from the early 80s, IIRC - and I've not come across a reason to upgrade it. Amscope get sneered at by "proper" engravers, but I know a number of jewellers who swear by them; a couple of years ago Meiji were the "only" scope to use, now it's Leica.
This has more detail - and pretty much everything said then is valid now:
https://engraverscafe.com/threads/st...to-avoid.3451/
So long as you have enough working distance under the objective - it has an objective of 0.7-3x, so with 10x eyepieces it's a decent range for setting/engraving. Might need a Barlow lens though, in which case your max magnification will be reduced.
Make sure you get a suitable stand as well - normal microscope stands aren't useful in this, some sort of boom arm will be needed.
http://www.science-info.net/docs/lei...icroscopes.pdf
Or go with Amscope.
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