Engraving Machine

What a glorious find! It'l take months, but it will be a beautiful machine when done!
 
Nice....can even start a small business with that making signs and plaques on the side for extra money.
 
I have a 3-U Gorton engraver, and really enjoy using it; plaques are one thing, but with a few accessories, you can make steel stamps, both flat and rotary, can engrave on curved surfaces, graduate scales and dials and many other neat stuff; just for kicks, I one time engraved my name in characters only .013 high, which was nothing! Gorton engraved the Lord's Prayer within a circle .005" in diameter; the characters were .00025" high and only several millionths deep; this was in the late 1930s when the 3-U model was introduced.
 
benmychree said:
I have a 3-U Gorton engraver, and really enjoy using it; plaques are one thing, but with a few accessories, you can make steel stamps, both flat and rotary, can engrave on curved surfaces, graduate scales and dials and many other neat stuff; just for kicks, I one time engraved my name in characters only .013 high, which was nothing! Gorton engraved the Lord's Prayer within a circle .005" in diameter; the characters were .00025" high and only several millionths deep; this was in the late 1930s when the 3-U model was introduced.
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Do you have any pictures?
 
Say, Is that snow on your car? If it is, send some my direction.:big grin:
 
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