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[Kayin]

My name is Edward, I'm recently disabled and have been a musician all my life. I recently started playing again and have acquired some amazing vintage instruments (yay Ebay) and some of them are amazingly engraved, and some are rather plain (my C trumpet is bare.) I found this place and have decided that I'd love to learn this art. I've been doing Dremel-carved PC case sides for many yeaars, and I'd love to learn this to apply to my instruments. In my new role as impromptu musical instrument technician, I figure it'll be well worth my time...

[Michael Linkous]

Edward, welcome to the forum. I am new to engraving also. I've been cutting for almost 6 months now. There is an interesting video on you-tube showing a gentleman hand push graving a saxophone, I believe. The video may have originated here. I just joined this forum the other day, so I am still learning my way around. Push graving would be an inexpensive way to get into engraving to see if it's for you or not. Check out the video and good luck!

[chickenscratcher]

Hi. I to have a handicap, but arms, hands, eyes still work just fine and I think you should give it a real try. When I was in jewelry school learning to engrave there was a class mate that had such bad eye sight that he almost had his face on the work he was engraving. He was the best engraver in the school. A tuch of a feather and smoothness of synthetic oil. He engraved silverplate without a slip or mistake, most likely because of his handicap, don't know. Best of luck. chickenscratcher