Re: Slanted Beams thickness

[Luca Fascione]

Yes but look at the took and how it's held in the hand: you won't ever get
a clean line from it holding is slanted to the direction of motion, that
thing is meant to be pushed straight ahead...



On Fri, 25 Mar 2022, 13:19 Dan Eble, <dan@lyric.works> wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2022, at 04:35, Luca Fascione <l.fascione@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This video shows Hans Kuehner at work
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyoKdW-Big
> >
> > at 4m36 shows beams being engraved, he appears to keep the instrument
> > orthogonal to the line direction,
>
> It's fascinating, but those beams are nearly horizontal and Valentin's
> concern is about steep beams.
> —
> Dan
>
>