How to engrave on a pencil

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Jig for Engraving Multiple Pencils: Repeatable positioning

I’ve been thinking about the whole alignment thing but haven’t gotten to the point where I had something to test. I won an attendance prize the other day at a luncheon and came home with a beautiful stationery desk set, pastel colors, with 12 pencils that had sayings on them. They are round. Here is what they ended up looking like: [image] Here’s how I got there: [image] I cut a flat piece of cardboard that had two factory edges which I used as the main reference, then used by acrylic fra…

Jig for Engraving on Pencils

I made this jig from Draftboard, to consistently position pencils for engraving. Other small round objects similar to a pencil will also work well. The jig consists of four components: a base, a holder and two pegs. [Jig components] Once assembled, the pegs align with the holes in the honeycomb grid of the Glowforge. I glued all the components together but gluing only the base and holder together would the pegs to be replaced if needed. And if gluing only the base and holder, use the pegs to…

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