Hey Mike,
Can't help with the rotary engraver part, but I hear you talked to Adam Dougherty (CPD, has his own engraving company)
I have been having him do a lot of my work lately. Whats the difference with the rotary engraver as opposed to the regular?
Lewis
Hi Lewis,
What I need to have engraved is a logo that consosts of three ellipses with lettering in the center. Once it is engraved it has to be color filled. A regular engraver results in one of two things:
1} Due to the curvature of the barrel he lines do not cut deep enough at the top and bottom resulting in the color fill not adhering well. The lines appear broken.
2) In order to get the engraving deep enough at the top and bottom the logo has to be reduced to a size smaller than what the customer wants.
A rotary engraver allows for the blank to be mounted in or on rollers that rotate the barrel as it is being engraved. The rollers and engraver are synced so the engraving is consistent and crisp without being reduced to small.
The engraver I have been using are great to work with and they are doing the best they can but they do not really have the equipment that it takes. I usually send them barrels in batches of 50 and there are always inconsistency between batches. A local, rotary engraver would really help out. If you are referring to CNS, they don't have a rotary that is small enough for a pen barrel. He referred me to someone else, I am waiting to hear from him. In the mean time, I'm still looking.