The Jewelry Engravers Manual by R. Allen Hardy and John J. Bowman is a classic instructioinal book to help jewelers and hand engravers develop skills for lettering and monograms.
This book covers graver shaping and sharpening, design and cutting methods focusing on hand tools. Techniques are easily transferrable to modern pneumatic engraving tools.
Table of Contents:
- Correct Shaping and Sharpening of Square Script Gravers
- Cutting Script Letters
- Cutting Ribbon Letters
- Vertical Script Letters
- Roman Letters
- Hardening and Tempering Steel
- Cutting Block Alphabets
- Cutting Old English Alphabet
- Designing and Cutting Monograms
Softcover. 8.5" x 5.5". 143 pages with 89 illustrations.