Feb. 17, 2014 | Posted in Reports, Jewelry Making , Student Reporter | Tags:S.K., Jewelry MakingReporter: S.K. | Course: Jewelry Making

Incisione

1. Heating a red wax with alcohol lamp to attach a sheet of copper on it to hold it while engraving.

2. Heatig a red wax on an alcohol lamp to melt it.

3. Teacher explaining to the class how to attach the burin blade to the wooden handle properly.

4. Teacher showing how to shape the burin blade with a mola.

5. Preparing for engraving. Teacher showing how to pass lightly the copper sheet with emery paper before starting to engrave.

6. Teacher showing how to sharpen the burin in a 45 degrees with Arkansass stone.

7. An Arkansass stone for sharpening burins, and a halfround, flat, knife shaped and striped burins, the blade has been protected with a cork while not using them.

8. First writing exercises on a copper sheet using english letters.

9. Students attaching the copper sheet to the base with red wax.

10. Different engraving bases for different objects. Backround student heating a base for a ring and in front student attaching a flat copper sheet to the base.

11. Closeup picture about a burin cutting the copper.Burin must be held firmly, and the thumb and index finger are guiding the blade.

12. The text is first written on a copper with a pencil, and then engraved with a burin following the pencil design.

13. Teacher Marco and a student Aoi showing the engraving base for a ring.