Engraving Tools

These single flute, are stocked in 40° and 60° included angle tools and are available in a variety shank diameters from 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" for additional rigidity.

Our SOLID carbide tools offer long tool life and faster cutting speeds than other substrates, but must be used with rigid toolholding systems.

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The first evidence for human engraving patterns are hatched banding on ostrich eggshells used as water containers found in South Africa in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter & dated to the Middle Stone Age circa 60,000 B.C. 

In antiquity, the only engraving on metal that could be carried out was the shallow grooves found in some jewellery after the beginning of the 1st Millennium B.C. The majority of engraved designs on ancient gold rings or other items were produced by repoussage.

If you are engraving then you are continuing a tradition that has been done through millennium!