Engraving - do you try to "clock" the lettering?

punkinhead · Post by **punkinhead** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:13 am

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.

Capt. Link. · Post by **Capt. Link.** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:22 am

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.

I place them in the middle with no timing.This allows some room for repairs on either end of the registered tube.

Baffled · Post by **Baffled** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:32 am

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.

sub-sonic · Post by **sub-sonic** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:45 am

put it on the inside if you dont want any one to see it

whiterussian1974 · Post by **whiterussian1974** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:48 am

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.

punkinhead · Post by **punkinhead** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:14 pm

whiterussian1974 wrote:Engraving is just work hardening.

Actually, it'll be material removal.

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.

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.

CMV · Post by **CMV** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:54 pm

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.

twodollarbill · Post by **twodollarbill** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 2:04 pm

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.

Bendersquint · Post by **Bendersquint** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 2:23 pm

We orient them on integral builds but everything else is just engraved to ATF specs and then a shy deeper.

LavaRed · Post by **LavaRed** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:39 pm

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.

I'll post pics of how my builds look marked, one day.

eric10mm · Post by **eric10mm** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:47 pm

How about spiral engraving? Then it will always be on top, and bottom, and sides.

Bendersquint · Post by **Bendersquint** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:16 pm

eric10mm wrote:How about spiral engraving? Then it will always be on top, and bottom, and sides.

Seen it before, done right it looks pretty sweet.

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.

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