'elp me! 'elp me! argh!

[Drac]

somebody had posted a pic of their workshop somewhere on here (nope, it's not in the workshop pics) and they had an air powered tool that they chucked their bevelers into and now I can't find it! I wanted to know what exactly it was (it was mentioned in a reply what it was) and I wanted to look into getting one so I kinda need to know exactly what it was. any ideas peeps?

[anne newkold]

somebody had posted a pic of their workshop somewhere on here (nope, it's not in the workshop pics) and they had an air powered tool that they chucked their bevelers into and now I can't find it! I wanted to know what exactly it was (it was mentioned in a reply what it was) and I wanted to look into getting one so I kinda need to know exactly what it was. any ideas peeps?

is this what you are talking about? this was most of the way down this page. http://leatherworker.net/forum/lofiversion....php?t1458.html

From Bruce Johnson

Mar 3 2008, 11:15 AM

QUOTE(whinewine @ Mar 1 2008, 02:16 PM) *

roo,

sorry to pop in, but it looks like a fordham (a flexible shaft dremel tool on steroids)

Actually it is a flexible rotary shaft tool. The handle oscillates and has a large enough chuck to put stamping tools in it. The tool then oscillates. They used to sell these under the trade name of "SpeedStamper" in the LCSJ. Not anything you couldn't buy from other sources, although the large chuck oscillating handpiece might be a bit of a hunt. Some guys who do silver work have their stamping tool shafts turned down to fit the Gravermax handles as well. Barry was even making tools with thin shafts to fit the graver handles. All of my bevelers fit this particular handle with no modifications.

I bought this right after I dislocated my thumb, and it helped take some of the heat off. It is good for repetitve stamping of "walking" tools like bevelers. I know guys who pear shade with them too. Basically you just run it down the cut line to bevel. I did a bunch of winelist covers last year for a restaurant, and had a lot of beadline borders with light beveling on the inside and outside of the beadlines. This makes that kind of beveling fly, and less fatiguing. Not the tool for everyone or used everyday, but nice to have when you do need it.

tazzmann

[Art]

Hi Drac,

Not the cheapest way to go, But a Gravermach or or Gravermeister with a #720 QC handpiece is the ultimate. Barry King used to make his tools available cut for the GRS QC holders that go into the #720 handpiece. You can also cut standard tools on a lathe, you just have to reduce the diameter to fit the QC toolholder. Link to Gravermach here:

http://www.grstools.com/engraving.html#gravermach

Art

somebody had posted a pic of their workshop somewhere on here (nope, it's not in the workshop pics) and they had an air powered tool that they chucked their bevelers into and now I can't find it! I wanted to know what exactly it was (it was mentioned in a reply what it was) and I wanted to look into getting one so I kinda need to know exactly what it was. any ideas peeps?

[Drac]

thanks guys! that's the page I was looking for.