engraving tool
Plate-carving implement
An engraving tool is any implement used to cut, carve, or etch designs into hard surfaces like metal, wood, or stone.
The term covers hand tools like burins and gravers as well as electric or pneumatic devices.
Jewelers, printmakers, and metalworkers each have preferred varieties: She selected a fine-pointed engraving tool for the detail work.
- graverMore solemn or severe
- burinPointed engraving implement
- rockerChair on curved rails
- chiselEdged carving implement
- gougeConcave carving blade
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