Jeweler's Gravers and Handles Buying Guide

Are you looking for the best deal on a jeweler's gravers and handles? On Alex Machine, you can browse a wide selection of the best gravers and handles to find one that is right for you. 

What is graver for jewelry?

A graver is a metal graving instrument. Often acting as small chisels, the engravers take different shapes and different stainless steel grades. Gravers can be pushed with the palm, thrown with a blade, or placed in a pneumatic device that uses short, powerful air bursts to push the instrument forward. When graving jewelry, the engraver is placed at a certain angle against the metal while pressing downwards and forward.

What is a handle for jewelry?

Graver handles come in various styles, and which one to choose is a matter of personal taste. Graver handles come in a variety of shapes, such as round-head, half-head, pear, and mushroom-head. The common graver handles are made of wood. All of the wood graver handles are equipped with a metal collar that is reinforced to reduce the chances of splitting.

What Are Common Graver Shapes and Their Uses?

There are 6 common graver shapes, each with a specific use;

• Line gravers are straight or curved with parallel lines evenly spaced on the cutting surface. The engraving is used for the finish, markings, coloring, and texturing. Bent line engravers help hard areas of access.
• Flat graver is flat. They are one of the most versatile engraving forms often used for colorful cutting, background removal, lighting effects, script markings, flare cutting, and decorative borders.
• Knife graverlooks like a knife blade, cutting sharply on straight sides. They are ideal for deep and fine engraving.
• Round graver is easiest to control and engraved with sharp points, right sides, and round tips. They are useful for removing backgrounds, elevating stone settings, lettering blocks, and smooth line engraving.
• Bevel gravers for engraving blocks, large and sharp cuts. The gold or silver inlays may also be cut down.
• Onglette gravers, also known as point gravers," have a cutting face with gently curved sides that reach a fine edge. The graver can be used for stone-setting, line gravure, fittings, fonts, shading, and borders.

Where are the Jeweler's Handles Used?

The process by which texture is cut or sculpted in the metal, the surface is decorated or literature, text, or drawings are called a graving in jewelry. During the engraving process, Graver jeweler's handles are used. We offer a variety of specialty graver jeweler's handles and their uses:

• Round-headed graver handles are used for a secure grip.
• Half-head graver handlesallow you to engrave the metal less and closer, allowing better transmission of force in the graver head.
• Elongated pear-shaped wood handle, gravers are held securely in the hand thanks to the elongated pear-shaped wood handle.
• The mushroom-shaped top wood handle is comfortable to hold and easy to use in the engraving process.
• Quick-change graver handles fit into a small collet that securely holds the tool in place. Quick-change handles also shrink the storage space required for multiple handles and gravers.

Types of Gravers

Here you can find two types of Gravers as well as a wide range of options with pricing details.

Vallorbe Gravers

· Vallorbe Flat Engraver HSS

· Vallorbe Flat Engraver 

· Vallorbe Round Engraver (LO0402/HSS)  

· Vallorbe Round Engraver (LO0402/WS) 

· Vallorbe Onglette Engraver HSS (LO0403/HSS) 

· Vallorbe Onglette Engraver Ws (LO0403/WS)

· Vallorbe Oval Engraver Ws (LO0404/WS)

· Vallorbe Knife Engraver (LO0406/HSS) 

· Vallorbe Knife Engraver (LO0406/WS)  

· Vallorbe Square Engraver (LO0502/WS)  

· Vallorbe Scraper with Channel (LO0653)  

· Vallorbe Scraper Without Channel (LO0655) 

·  Vallorbe Oval Burnisher (LO0788)  

Grobet Gravers

· Grobet Hand Graver Flat (G401/HSS) 

· Grobet Hand Graver Round (G402/HSS) 

· Grobet Hand Graver Onglette (G403/HSS) 

· Grobet Hand Graver Knife Hss 

· Grobet Machine Graver Flat (GM401) 

· Grobet Machine Graver Round (GM402)  

· Grobet Machine Graver Onglette (GM403) 

· Grobet Machine Graver Knife (GM0406) 

· Grobet Square Engraver

· Sella Graver Tapered Flat 

· Sella Graver Point Knife 

· Sella Graver Flat 

· Sella Graver Onglette 

How to Use the Gravers Properly?

Engravers maintain a specific angle between the graver and the metal while applying downward and forward pressure. With each pass, the graver cuts into the metal, creating a small metal curl. Years of practice and a steady hand are required. Different shaped points leave different marks when engraving. Examples of commonly used graver shapes are round and bevel. Gravers may need to be mounted and sharpened before use. These are already shortened and ready to mount when delivered, whereas traditional gravers must be shortened to be used comfortably and efficiently. A handle is then attached for additional comfort and control. These handles come in various colors and materials.

Choosing the Best Gravers

You can start practicing jewelry engraving on your own jewelry items once you have a basic understanding of the various graver shapes and their capabilities. You must first select the best types of gravers that are appropriate for your working needs. Our professional artist consists of jewelry experts who are available to answer questions and offer expert advice on many techniques, equipment, or engraving supplies you are considering.

FAQ

How do you use Gravers?

Engraving tools are mini hardened steel chisels. A sharpened tool with a specific angle is placed against the metal and pressed downward and forward in a correct graving process. The instrument is buried inside the plate, forming a chip and pushing a metal curl ahead as it cuts.

How do you hand sharpen Gravers?

Make use of square gravers or pre-shaped 120, 150, and other degrees. Start with sharpened gravers, which you should hold between your thumb and index finger. If e engraving vise has a small diamond hone on the top of it for engraving, sweep this across the hone to sharpen the graver's face.

How do you engrave Gravers?

With the palm of one hand, the engravers can be pushed forward, hit with a chasing hammer, or put in a pneumatic device that uses short and powerful air splashes to push it forward. During engraving, the jewelers preserve a certain angle of the engraver to the metal while pressing the engraver down and forward.

What is a flat graver used for?

Flat Gravers have a flat cutting edge and sides that are either parallel or slightly tapered. They can remove or texture backgrounds, bright-cut, block lettering, and cut consistent width lines for borders.

How do you sharpen jewelry tools?

No need to hire a pro to sharpen your jewelry tools. It can be done in seconds while sitting at home. To sharpen the wire cutter, use a fine-textured hand file. A coarse hand file will damage the wire cutter. Because the cutter's sharpening areas are so small. Now it's time to sharpen. Take it one at a time. Hand file the blade. Be quick but not too forceful. Soft rubbing will work.

How do you start hand engraving?

It is commonly used for jewelry, but it is also used on guns, knives, musical instruments, and awards. Gravers, which are very small, sharp, and precise chisels, are used to accomplish this. Gravers are one of the most important tools to have when start practicing the art of hand engraving. Place the graver in the palms of your hands and close your hands around it. With the handles just below the center of your palm and slightly to the right of it, place your hand on the table. Bring your index and middle fingers up to the graver. After that, put your thumb where you want it.