Has anyone tried engraving a rifle (metal) using a Dremel Tool?
Has anyone tried engraving a rifle (metal) using a Dremel Tool?
Boy I'd like to see it if they did! Can you say skating?
As stated, definitely a bad idea. Rotary tool will make a mess of it. If you are just curious, try it on a pipe nipple.
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That would pretty much agree with my simple experiments with the couple of real Dremels, a Wen, and a couple of HF semi-clones I've tried. They're great for polishing and sanding and grinding. To try to engrave something again, I'd want to hook up CNC equipment to drive it. Sure ain't gonna happen if I'm holding it in my hand.
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I goggled "Dremel tool metal engraving", clicked on "images", then scrolled down to get this.
https://www.google.com/search?q=drem...h=620&biw=1366
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A distance of fifty feet minimum should always be maintained between a gun and a Dremel tool.
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Some look good on the google images. If one has good steady hands and can write real clear. And is artistic. I think that will be helpful. I would practice on some scrap metal 1st.
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Guess it was a bad idea. That is what happens when I can not sleep at nights
Bad idea. VERY BAD IDEA. Dremel tools have a VERY limited use, but never engraving! Even with dead steady hands (which I have), the tool bit would skate all over the surface and make a real mess.
If the Dremel was held VERY RIGID in a good metal panto-graph, you might have some success. But I would not count on it.
https://www.amazon.com/Proxxon-27106...82392628&psc=1
Proxxon is leaps and bounds better than any Dremel garbage. I have several of their tools and they are precision!
But engraving.............that is why I have hand gravers!
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Yikes....just the thought makes me cringe.
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Actually - no. I f you had that Proxxon system above and the right tracing patterns for the tip, you could actually do some decent engraving. The trick is the master patterns you would have to make! But the Proxxon pantograph system is fairly rigid and can do some engraving, but not the type you guys are probably thinking of on guns. Depending on the size, you could actually copy the original engraving/carving on a gun/stock to another one! That is what a pantograph is used for in drafting or engraving, allowing you to scale up and down from the original pattern.
PLEASE DON'T!
Look for a local LASER engraver. There are several in your area. They need a Fiber laser, not CO2 and ask if they can engrave INTO the metal.
$20 or $30 for caliber or similar engraving..... no dremel
I'd do it for you, but shipping ain't cheap any more.
I have used a dremel tool with a carbide burr to engrave the caliber on the underlug of a handi rifle barrel that I built from a shotgun barrel with a rifle barrel liner. The barrel is parkerized and you can only see where I engraved it when the barrel is removed from the receiver and it looks pretty good to me.
My eyesight is bad enough that I cannot see most small stampings on barrels without reading glasses so I had enough room to engrave 357 Maximum in large letters and can tell what I have easily.
I would post a photo but to find the gun and remove the forend a take a photo would take more time than I have right now so you will have to take my word for it.
Jedman
I can’t do steel with Dremil . Softer metals brass and aluminum it does fair job. I have extensive collection of molds for fishing lures & tackle. They are cast aluminum, I engraved a number, code and my name in each one. Did a fine job and I can pull out the one I want without sorting through them. Attachment 266177
Saw this on flea bay what do you think? ( Pneumatic Engraving Machine Double Ended Impact Graver Jewelry Engraver DE)
It is no different than those electro-magnetic vibro-engraver tip tools that have been around for decades. I have one and it just vibrates a carbide tip at 60 Hz and digs into metal. OK for putting ID data on things, but not a very pretty sight. That thing just runs on a little air pump internally that moves a piston in the hand piece in and out.
I really do not think that is what you are looking for!
I put it in the category of: It can be done, but not by me.
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If you want to do engraving, you could try acid etching instead. You cover the (warm) part with a thin layer of beeswax. When the part has cooled you "draw" in the soft wax with a pointed stick of hardwood or plastic. Then use a mixture of nitric acid and sulphuric acid, known as aqua regia, to etch the part where the steel has been laid bare. With a little practice you can make som pretty decent patterns - and you can keep redoing the pattern until you're satisfied before using the acid. Not so with the Dremel tool! You better have a steady hand as you only get one shot at it...
Do a google search for "steel acid etching"to see some nice examples.
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