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| DeeC |
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Dee Church Joined: Mon Jun 18 2012, 11:11AM Posts: 2 | My folks bought a cheap wood burning pen for me when I was just a young lad. It fascinated me for a short time but I did not excel or persist. 50 years later I am now a serious designer and fabricator of various woodworking creations. I'm going to invest in a pyro system that will allow me to do mostly calligraphy markings on projects. These marks will include gram weights of custom drum sticks and mallets, frequency / pitch of melodic wooden percussion instruments, graphic details on my custom "half-track" cribbage board designs, and artist signatures. I'll be practicing writing in various fonts and sizes, the smallest being about 1/4" in height. I am a little overwhelmed with the available hardware choices so I thought I'd ask the readers on this forum what they might recommend for this application. I know my needs go way beyond the single temp / tip pencil type burner. I expect to pay maybe $200 for what I need to get started and I presume I'll be needing a few tip styles and sizes to adequately explore my potential at pyro calligraphy. Any words of wisdom for a guy like me? I know that most anything will be an improvement over my Weller variable temp soldering station I've been using! | ||
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| Steven Hawkes |
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 Joined: Fri May 18 2012, 06:49AM Posts: 6 | read the post in "Nerbie here" on the forum. i dont know how my reply to you went into that post...but it did. in it i talk about the Burnmaster Eagle system. | ||
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| Danette |
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  Joined: Thu Feb 27 2003, 02:00PM Posts: 770 | Hi DeeC...Welcome to the group. Any top name burning machine will work for you. I own an Optima dual burner. I've had it 9 years now and haven't had a problem with it. You can check it out here: http://www.carvertools.com/ You get two pens with it and I think they allow you to pick, but not sure. Once on the page click on: Optima 1 Pen Styles...there you will see the different pen styles. I highly recommend a heavy duty pen. For the type of work you are wanting to do I'd recommend the #19S Ball point tip, this is good for signatures and so is #9 the writing tip. Both tips glide across the wood...they don't cut into the wood. They also have a small Chisel or Calligraphy Writing Pen. Basically looks like a small 1/8" chisel tip. Could be used for purposes other than calligraphy. Available in smaller sizes/widths upon request. I hope this helps you out. Take care...Danette | ||
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