{"id":998,"date":"2015-11-12T18:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/?p=998"},"modified":"2015-11-12T19:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T19:01:49","slug":"hand-engraving-the-ultimate-jewelry-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/custom-jewelry\/hand-engraving-the-ultimate-jewelry-decoration","title":{"rendered":"Hand Engraving– the Ultimate Jewelry Decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Custom Ring, Opals and Sapphires in Platinum with Hand Engraving<\/p><\/div>\n

In today’s world, some things change rapidly and some stay the same. Just in the last 20 years or so, jewelry making has changed radically. Previously we\u00a0used labor intensive processes like carving wax models by hand to create our original designs and master models.\u00a0We now use technological marvels\u00a0like computer aided design and modeling (CAD\/CAM) and 3d printing as a mainstay to make jewelry. Yet for all the efficiency of these new manufacturing methods, we\u00a0still rely on centuries old technologies\u00a0like hand engraving to add the final touch to our\u00a0finest pieces.<\/p>\n

Hand engraving is a decorative art form where designs are carved into the surfaces of jewelry, housewares, knives, guns and other objects.\u00a0Hand engraving is also used to create the metal\u00a0plates used to print paper currency and other legal documents.<\/p>\n

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Hand Engraved portrait of Lincoln<\/p><\/div>\n

Almost anything can be depicted by a skilled\u00a0hand engraver. The finished product\u00a0is a product of the engraver’s design sense, imagination and skill level. Hand engravers spend years perfecting their skills– some specialize in decorative engravings, some work mainly in lettering and inscriptions.<\/p>\n

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Exquisite Hand Engraving on William Henry folding knife<\/p><\/div>\n

The main tools the engraver uses\u00a0are very sharp tiny steel chisels called gravers. For jewelry, the engraver\u00a0uses different shaped gravers to\u00a0create various designs and patterns of leaves, flowers, curls and swirls .<\/p>\n

The beauty of hand engraving lies in its crisp detail and brightness. Unlike engraving for currency where ultra-fine lines make up the design, the jewelry engraver adds\u00a0wide grooves and notches to reflect light and brighten the surface and the gems. His\u00a0gravers are sharpened on a diamond hone and polished to a mirror brightness so that\u00a0the cut surfaces are bright and shiny.<\/p>\n

We recently created a custom ring for a client featuring the diamonds from her original wedding ring. She wanted a new look with white gold instead of yellow and she liked classic vintage styles.\u00a0Engagement rings\u00a0of the late 19th and early 20th century often featured lots of beautiful hand engraving. Here’s her\u00a0ring, before engraving and after.<\/p>\n

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Custom Ring, Before and After Hand Engraving<\/p><\/div>\n

We think the hand engraving really transformed the ring into something special<\/p>\n

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Hand Engraved Custom Ring<\/p><\/div>\n

Some jewelry makers have tried to add a\u00a0hand engraved look to their mass produced products. They use\u00a0CAD\/CAM to decorate the surface of their master model, then make a mold to make reproductions of the original.\u00a0In our opinion, this look really doesn’t have the class and elegance of real hand engraving.<\/p>\n

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Faux Engraving- Cast<\/p><\/div>\n

At Mardon, you’ll find the real thing, on both\u00a0our original creations and our custom designs. We use traditional surface decorations like hand engraving and jewelry enameling to enhance\u00a0our one of a kind jewelry and our custom designing.<\/p>\n

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Mardon One-of-a-Kind 14K Yellow Gold Ring with Ruby, Diamond & Hand Engraving<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

As full service jewelers, we work daily with the dedicated\u00a0artisans who keep these timeless skills alive. Stop by the shop to see what a difference these traditional techniques can make in our hand crafted jewelry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s world, some things change rapidly and some stay the same. Just in the last 20 years or so, jewelry making has changed radically. Previously we\u00a0used labor intensive processes like carving wax models by hand to create our original designs and master models.\u00a0We now use technological marvels\u00a0like computer aided design and modeling (CAD\/CAM) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,8,9],"tags":[479,73,308,480,481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}