Notes from the setting bench: what a tool is asked to do, and where it stops
Gravers, scorpers and burins, the geometry of the cutting edge, and the stones and slips that bring it back.
EG-002Edges and gravers
A graver only cuts as cleanly as its face is flat and its edge is unbroken. What a flat stone restores, what a slip restores, and why oil or water decides which one keeps cutting.
EG-001Edges and gravers
How the engraver's burin and the jeweller's setting graver share a cutting geometry, why each lifts a burr, and where the two tools stop being interchangeable.