Wood Engraving Tools

Cutting

Judith Jaidinger's obsession with cutting began in her 1960s student days at the School of the Art Institute, and is linked to her equally long, frankly sensuous relationship with boxwood. She was introduced to both in an engraving class taught by British-born print-master Adrian Troy, who did his best to keep her interest in wood and what could be done to it on the straight-and-narrow path to high art. But he made a critical mistake along the way.

At that time, woodblock engraving was dangerous territory for serious artists. A thriving industry in the 19th century, when it was the primary means of illustration for everything in print, from literature to the Sears catalog, it involves intricate, fine-line incisions on end-cut hardwood (sliced across the grain). It was considered a trade, and was painstakingly learned through apprenticeships of five to seven years.

"Twentieth-century artists were embarrassed by commercial wood engravers," the practitioners of a mere craft, Jaidinger says. "It was looked down upon." And the art world zeitgeist, recoiling from Victorian elaboration and delicacy, was all about bold, expressionistic modernism. That made the woodcut—with a wider, rawer line incised on wood that's been sliced in the direction of its grain—the preferred technique. The few American artists who still practiced woodblock engraving were likely to turn out prints that emulated its cruder cousin.

At the same time, printing industry technology had moved on, supplanting woodblock engravings with line drawings and photography. "A dying art," Jaidinger says. It was also a seriously slumping industry. But in the 1960s in Chicago, hub of an enormous catalog business, there were still a few commercial wood-engraving establishments turning out the precise, detailed images more typical of the previous century. One of them, Sander Wood Engraving, on Dearborn Street, was where Professor Troy, a committed modernist, sent his students to buy the best material: rare, English-grown, boxwood blocks, so expensive they're sold by the square inch.

"He warned us," Jaidinger recalls. "He said, 'If you go to Sander and buy your wood from them, don't look at what those engravers are doing. I don't want you to be influenced by them.'"

That made it irresistible. Like Lot's wife, Jaidinger looked, and her life was changed. "I fell in love with it. I couldn't believe what they could do with a piece of wood. I was hooked." She landed a job at Sander, and later, at Zacher Studio on West Jackson, that allowed her to learn woodblock engraving as apprentices had learned it since the 15th century—by working for years at the side of senior craftsmen.

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  Our woodworking machines could be customized according to your specific needs such as dimension of engraving area, motor, spindle, control system, software, and other configurations Application Industries: Our woodworking centers are high automatic machinery. It is suitable for mass processing of solid woods, density boards, composite boards, rigid plastics, artificial marble, acrylic, and other materials.Our woodworking center has wide applications. It is extensively used for deep processing of semi-finished products of accessories of industrial equipment like the countertops of industrial sewing machines and electric appliance cabinets. It also can be used to make building models.Other applications are specified in the following text.Furniture IndustryThe woodworking center can be used to make lock holes or engrave patterns on solid wood doors, composite gates, cupboard doors, interior doors, sofa legs, headboards, antique furniture and other panel furniture. Decoration IndustryThe woodworking center is applicable to engrave various decorative patterns on the surface of decorative paintings, screens, three-dimensional wave boards, and acoustic boards.Musical Instrument IndustryThe woodworking center is suitable to engrave decorative patterns on the head of musical instruments, or to process the semi-finished guitars. It also can make three dimensional curved surfaces.Mould IndustryThe woodworking center can make wood moulds, evaporated pattern casting moulds, food moulds, and other moulds.Craft IndustryThe woodworking center is used to engrave decorative patterns on relief craftworks, pendants, automobile accessories and other craftworks.Advertising IndustryThe woodworking center is applied to cut or engrave patterns on acrylic. It also can make acrylic adsorption moulds, chest cards and various label plates.

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