Illustration] About eight or nine gravers of different sizes, beginning from the outline tool, are generally sufficient.
Ornaments and borders are sometimes engraved on solid brass by means of chisels and graversin the same manner as a wood-cut.
In this cut are shown the faces and part of the backs of nine gravers of different sizes; the lower dotted line, A C, shows the extent to which the points of such tools are sometimes ground down by the engraver in order to render them broader.
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It is difficult to believe that they could have carved and engraved these hard substances without metallic gravers or tools of some kind.
The oyle stone is to whet your gravers on; drop one or two drops of sallet oyle upon it, and whet your graver thereon, and it will have an edge presently.
These Gravers made and hardened after this manner, doe farre exceed all the other Gravers.
If your gravers be too hard, heate them a little, and thrust them into tallow, and they will be tougher.
You can judge pretty accurately of a watchmaker by the corners he leaves on his work, as well as by the appearance of his gravers and screw-drivers.
As before stated, much depends upon the condition of your graversand the manner of using them.
It is advisable, though not absolutely necessary, to have three gravers similar to those illustrated in Fig.
The International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers was organised, and the Atelier Carmen in Paris was planned, both so important that their history is reserved for other chapters.
Sometimes the tool has slipped by, indicating that it was held and used after the manner of the gravers of the present day.
Almost all the chief types of gravers (burins) have now been invented, and tools of bone have become extremely numerous and varied.
Thereupon the youth began, "Right wondrous and marvellous is my case and that of these fishes; and were it graven with gravers upon the eye corners it were a warner to whoso would be warned.
All the tools you need are different sized graversand gouges, a small chisel to cut large spaces, an engraver's rest for the block, so that it can be turned freely and easily about, and a whetstone to sharpen your tools.
Instead of spit-sticks, tools known as gravers are often used.
Having attained skill with gravers and scaupers he may proceed to engrave patterns and pictures of black lines on white, first in plain outline, and then, last of all, he may attempt the modelling and elaboration of the general surface.
Thereupon the youth began, "Right wondrous and marvellous is my case and that of these fishes; and were it graven with gravers upon the eye-corners it were a warner to whoso would be warned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gravers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
