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Beautify your instrument

Essential Engraving Kit

Whether it's traditional ornamentation on an acoustic instrument, or tattoo-style art on a solidbody guitar, artistically hand-engraved pearl inlays beautify an instrument and increase its value. Our Essential Engraving Kit contains everything you need to get started. Detailed instructions and sample patterns help you develop your skills.

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Tools : Special tools for: Inlay : Essential Engraving Kit : Beautify your instrument: our basic tool kit gives you a good start in pearl engraving.
 Item#  Description   In stock   Price   Quantity   
 1675  Essential Engraving Kit SAVE $9.34  Yes   $60.60 

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Personalize, customize with your own flourishes, or duplicate traditional patterns: engraved pearl inlays make an instrument special! Even a lowly fingerboard dot comes alive with just a few simple cuts accented with dark filler.

You'll get all these items when you buy the Essential Engraving Kit and SAVE $8.20:
• 3 gravers: Onglette, flat and square
• 3 wooden handles
• Double-end steel scribe for tracing pearl and cutting guidelines for engraving
• Pattern tracing stylus for transferring patterns to the pearl
• Laskin's Special Blend engraving filler
• 3 pearl dots (6mm) and 3 stars (20mm) for practicing your inlaying and engraving
Instructions and sample engraving patterns
Lesson in pearl engraving from Doug Unger
Lesson in pearl engraving from Doug Unger
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In this issue:
Doug Unger restores and reproduces exquisite turn-of-the-century 5-string banjos and early archtop mandolins. Doug shares a lesson in pearl engraving with Trade Secrets readers.
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