wood engraving, can anyone help?

[plippy]

i milled up a bench for a customer the other day and she asked could i engrave the top, ie draw with a pencil the outline of a dragonfly and then scribe out the shape, av been down to my local diy store but they avnt got anything, av tried with an agle grinder but it takes to much off wen u do the curved parts

 

any suggestions

 

phill

[Tommy_B]

What about pyrography?

[Rob D]

A quick, cheap and easy way is just to draw in pencil and then use a soldering iron to burn in what you have drawn....

 

 

 

[Ian Leach]

What you need is one of these,

Power Carving

 

The power carver or motorised carver or get a v chisel and do it by hand

[John Barleycorn]

What is wrong with the time honored method of using a woodcarving gouge and mallet ?

If you cant do it then find somebody who can.

[plippy]

A quick, cheap and easy way is just to draw in pencil and then use a soldering iron to burn in what you have drawn....

 

 

 

 

i thort a soldering iron would do the job, it would also burn the wood so it would define the drawing

 

hi ian,

Av looked at axminster before just didnt want to spend too much to find it was the wrong tool for me, am gona look the site, cheers ian

 

thanks for the replies guys much appreciated

[Ian Leach]

You could always use a small router then burn what you have routered out thats a cheaper way. Theres loads of different ways i can think of depends how much time and money the customer wants to spend.