Many of our everyday products are mass-produced in factories, such as clothes, toys, snacks, and towels. Some of our decorative items such as jewelry, watches, and hair clips are also privately produced. We love handmade not only because it relaxes us physically and mentally but also because it allows us to create unique products that are just for us. It is therefore not surprising that engraving has become so popular as we wish we could create our own designs of jewelry or other household items. Engraving can be done in two different ways, either by your own hand with a carving knife or with an engraving machine. So which of these two popular approaches is better? As the saying goes, to each his own, both methods certainly have their advantages. We will introduce the differences between these two engraving methods in detail, and hope to provide you with some help.
Hand-carved
Hand carving is the process of creating a work of art using tools such as carving knives and chisels. The advantage is that you create a piece completely manually, and then the quality and finish of the piece is entirely in your hands. Hand carving takes a very long time to learn how to control the strength of the carving knife how to sharpen the implements and so on. It is a very patient and time consuming endeavor. Secondly, the cost of time invested will be slightly more than the engraving machine.
Understanding engraving machines
With the improvement of technology, there are more and more types of engraving machines on the market. The most common are pneumatic engraving machines and laser engraving machines. Pneumatic engraving machine is the use of air compressor or electricity to make the work handle vibration to sand, engraving products machine. There are two types, one is an external air compressor, which needs to be connected to the air compressor in order to be used. One is a hybrid type utilizing air compressor and electricity, it has a built-in air compressor so it is very portable. Along with the development of technology, there is also a kind of electric air compressor was invented, it is smaller than the first two types, do not need to built-in air compressor completely rely on electricity to make the engraving handle vibration. Engraving machine vibration frequency varies in different cases. The higher the frequency, the higher the strength of the carving, the faster the speed may be, the requirements of the carving technology may also be correspondingly higher. Its workflow is operated by a person who operates the engraving handle and sanding, fusing and other handles on the raw material to be engraved, which is a little bit similar to manual engraving. The engraving handle can also be sanded to the shape you want. Because the engraving handle can vibrate by itself, you don't need to use your own hand to exert special force, which saves time and labor.
Laser engraving machines are relatively efficient engraving machines. It carves and moves in a similar way to a pencil, and it can create patterns that would be difficult to carve by hand with particularly complex patterns. Its workflow is linked together using a computer program that uses a laser beam to burn away the excess of the material in accordance with a set pattern to carve out the desired product. The pattern it carves out can be almost the same. Its advantage is that it is very fast. The advantage is that it is very fast, the disadvantage is that laser engraving is not hand engraving, or will be missing the soul of the hand.
Safety
Handmade carving knife in the process of chipping wood if your strength is not right or unskilled especially easy to scratch the hand, so try to carve with cut-resistant gloves. Jewelry engraving machine engraving handle is safer, do not put your hand on the tip of the engraving handle. Laser engraving machine in the carving more attention to safety issues, to wear professional protective equipment and wear goggles to avoid laser beam injury to the eyes, but also pay attention to prevent the leakage of gas cylinders. Before engraving must understand the safety aspects of the relevant knowledge, do not have the psychological fluke and do not do any protection, which is very worthy of our attention.
Requirements for engraving effects
When it comes to engraving results, which engraving method is better depends on what kind of results you want. But in reality, both pneumatic engraving and hand engraving require your own hands, it's just that the difference in tools between the two brings about a difference in results. Hand engraving may be more rustic, pneumatic engraving machine engraving may be a little more precise in handling the details. A laser engraving machine can create products that are engraved almost exactly the same, very quickly. Since it is a computer program running, it can create very intricate and detailed patterns, but the textures may not be as vivid. You can decide what type of engraving machine you want based on your aesthetic.
Requirements for productivity
If you only carve a piece or two on a whim every now and then, then hand engraving with its low cost and average engraving speed may be more suitable for you. If you are a hobbyist or a frequent engraver, then both hand engraving and pneumatic engraving machines are better choices. If you enjoy the feeling of hand engraving more, you can choose hand engraving. If you find the engraving machine easy and convenient, you can still study the use of engraving machine if you have the budget. If you have a factory then it is recommended that you buy an engraving machine to batch engraving jewelry, wood carving and other products, the production efficiency will be higher, the workers will operate faster.
In conclusion, after our introduction, you understand the difference between hand engraving and using engraving machine engraving? I believe that the people who see here must be a genuine love of the art of carving or carving interested in people. Wish you soon can hand-carve a work you like, quickly hands try it up. Wish you a happy life, every day happy!