Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
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Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
I'm getting close to finishing up my suppressor and need to take it to a shop to be engraved. Do you try to have the engraving in any particular orientation when the suppressor is attached to the host gun? I realize it'll end up in different orientations with different guns but I'll mostly be using the same gun. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I only get one shot at this.
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
I place them in the middle with no timing.This allows some room for repairs on either end of the registered tube.punkinhead wrote:I'm getting close to finishing up my suppressor and need to take it to a shop to be engraved. Do you try to have the engraving in any particular orientation when the suppressor is attached to the host gun? I realize it'll end up in different orientations with different guns but I'll mostly be using the same gun. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I only get one shot at this.
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
I do believe you ARE overthinking this one! Go ahead and make it so that the engraving is at 9:00 or 3:00 when it's on your favorite host, but realize that it won't be there on other weapons. I like the notion of leaving a bit of room for repairs, but I'd still have it closer to the base... that's just me.
You'll look at it once or twice after it's engraved, like what you see, then probably not look at it much again.
You'll look at it once or twice after it's engraved, like what you see, then probably not look at it much again.
Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
put it on the inside if you dont want any one to see it
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
Engraving is just work hardening. There shouldn't be any change in harmonics, heat disipation, etc. Keep it away from blastchamber. The orientation shouldn't matter. If it did, Companies would engrave twice, 180* apart.
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
Actually, it'll be material removal.whiterussian1974 wrote:Engraving is just work hardening.
I'm just thinking of aesthetics, not performance. The "stay away from the ends to allow repair" angle hadn't occurred to me but is a good point.There shouldn't be any change in harmonics, heat disipation, etc. Keep it away from blastchamber. The orientation shouldn't matter. If it did, Companies would engrave twice, 180* apart.
Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
I did one to land exactly at BDC & it turned out well. On a different rifle - who knows where it will end up?
I have another one where I did the Cerakote over the engraving. The engraving is kind of big at .210 high letters. Don't have anything I can think of to measure the depth, but you can catch your fingernail in it. First pic you're looking dead at it, 2nd is as best as I could get my camera to focus on it close up. In this case it doesn't really matter because no matter where it lands, you have to look for it to see it. Wasn't the intent, just how it turned out with a flat black coating.
I have another one where I did the Cerakote over the engraving. The engraving is kind of big at .210 high letters. Don't have anything I can think of to measure the depth, but you can catch your fingernail in it. First pic you're looking dead at it, 2nd is as best as I could get my camera to focus on it close up. In this case it doesn't really matter because no matter where it lands, you have to look for it to see it. Wasn't the intent, just how it turned out with a flat black coating.
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
I've orientated them on my integral builds so they line up with the receiver's engravings.
All others form 1's are just centered in the middle of the tube.
All others form 1's are just centered in the middle of the tube.
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
We orient them on integral builds but everything else is just engraved to ATF specs and then a shy deeper.
Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
Has anyone tried letter punching? I recently tried it on a build and I'm very satisfied with it. It's just a matter of lots of practice, printing out your font on paper, and then marking the piece with a sharpie for font kerning. Drawing the letters on the little squares with a very thin sharpie helps even more.
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
How about spiral engraving? Then it will always be on top, and bottom, and sides.
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Re: Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?
Seen it before, done right it looks pretty sweet.eric10mm wrote:How about spiral engraving? Then it will always be on top, and bottom, and sides.
I also saw a can with something like a word find on it with the information in the puzzle. All the owner did was make the puzzle and connect all the pertinent information together with lines.