Talk:Engraving

Would a summary of how the process of engraving works be appropriate here? --Alex 01:30, 2004 Sep 9 (UTC)

Yes. If you have knowledge in this area, then please feel free to expand the current article. Be bold. [[User:Noisy|Noisy | Talk]] 03:24, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Intaglio?

Intaglio (printmaking) and Chalcography are the same? I'm Allman in thhe catalan wiki. Sorry for my english. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.14.125.168 (talk) 19:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC).

engraving is, apparently: Chal`cog´ra`phy

n. 1. The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.

- it's not really used as an English word. Comes from "greek word khalkos meaning "copper" Johnbod 02:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Not just a metalworking technique?

I've popped a paragraph on Roman glass engraving into the History section... I think engraving could be expanded here to include glass engraving more expictly, or should this go in a seperate article? Ruth Fillery-Travis (talk) 18:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Ideally a seperate article, with a para here, when it is big enough. For now, here is probably best. Perhaps add it to glass art too; I can't see anthing else on the subject, after a quick look. Johnbod (talk) 18:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not going to edit this article, as it looks pretty good. I'm jeweler and dabble in engraving now and then. I'll point out that some purists consider engraving to be the pushing of little chisels (burins) that create chips. Meaning that rotary engraving, as glass, is not really engraving - nor are lasers or CNC milling. There's actually a point there, though I'm not such a purist. At least it's good to remember that there is true engraving - pushing little points through metal, and then there is all the rest. Laser is actually only engraving in the sense that it creates tiny images, though people call it that. An old school engraver would take umbrage at the idea, frankly. Just FYI - not saying things should be excluded. Jjdon (talk) 23:16, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

big hatnote

I've reverted this because it just runs against the WP:MoS - you just don't see things like that. I have expanded & bolded etc some bits to meet your concerns, which had some validity, and altered some of the incoming links - articles that describe people as "copper-engravers" etc should really be dealt with by updating the language. Graven should go to "graven image" which instead of redirecting to Idolatry should be its own little stub, imo. In thius contect it really means "carved" not "engraved". We don't need extra had notes for all forms of a word, like engraves. Johnbod (talk) 20:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Add section about hand engraving techniques, usage?

Should I add a section about different techniques used in hand engraving? For example there is bulino (scene engraving, often used on guns and knives), sculpting, western bright cut, precious metal inlay, deep relief etc. For each of these you need to use different tools and they all have very different look. Vilts (talk) 08:47, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

That sounds good. Are you aware that material should be sourced, and should not be like an instruction manual? The article (like many others) is somewhat deficient, but it may not be desirable to add a whole new section without any references. I am just an interested onlooker and can't help much with the topic, but feel free to ask if there is anything you want clarified about conventions on Wikipedia. Another issue is that it's not clear where new material might be added (hand engraving is only discussed in Engraving#Process), however, articles are always a work in progress and any difficulties can be sorted out later. Johnuniq (talk) 09:21, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Sourcing can be a bit of a problem, but I have bunch of books about engraving, so I will see whether they have sections about different techniques. Most of the stuff I know are learned from other engravers. Also, there is online engraving glossary. Would that work as good/verifiable source? Its author has published book(s) about engraving, so he definitely knows the area. Vilts (talk) 12:44, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

The engravingglossary.com site is probably fine for a small number of references, but we try to avoid basing a significant amount of work on one source (particularly a website). Personally, I do not mind a small amount of "how to" information in articles, but I assure you that many here would delete a section that appeared to fail WP:NOTMANUAL, hence my warning to not put a bunch of effort into that type of text. Feel free to start anywhere you like, and we can sort out any problems later. Johnuniq (talk) 01:21, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

If you are going to add a lot, then Hand engraving could be split off again. It was only merged because [1] it had been only 4 lines long for years. But I'd add it here for now. Johnbod (talk) 13:10, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I've been very busy at work, and not active on WP... I have to say I think this article looks pretty good right now - imperfect as all articles are, but pretty good. The woodcut of tools is of etching tools, BTW. I'd suggest that engraving began as a hand process - everything newer comes from that. I'd resist breaking this into little articles without real reason, myself. Jjdon (talk) 20:53, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

I've removed the tools pic - though it could be good somewhere else; also that sheep, which isn't an engraving. Johnbod (talk) 01:07, 5 June 2010 (UTC)