Diamonds are a girl’s best friends! (and for the boys who engrave too)

Photos 1) Screen shot of Diama Diamonds main page 2) Sample of some of their burs as they are packaged when they arrive.

Diama Diamond - a great supplier of high quality diamond burs at a great price.

So if you live in the USA this is our favorite place to buy diamond burs and one of the tricks of smoothing your engraving their name is Diama Diamond and here is the web site:

http://www.diamadiamonds.com/?section=home

Why do we love them??

*Because they have amazing customer service, you call and a person answers! NO ANSWERING MACHINE!

*Their prices! 1.25 to 1.75 each! That’s it!!! Though you need to buy them in minimum of 5. It is a great deal. And I got an email this year where the prices went SUPER LOW my order of $50 dollars came down to $30.

TIP FOR SMOOTHING: Start your cut with aregular standard coarse bur one of the cheaper burs you get as a pack on amazon or ebay like this for example:

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Quality-20-Piece-Diamond-Point-Rotary-Tool/dp/B000MOI9G6/ref=sr_1_5?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1311326250&sr=1-5

Or buy some directly from Diama Diamond. (standard coarse)

These above can give you a rough cut and start your engraving but if you want to smooth it and prepare it for polishing I would go back and smooth it with one of the burs from Diama Diamond and any bur that has a very fine to super fine or micro fine composite polishers from Diama Diamonds, a very light touch and slow speed and you will get the smoothing done. It takes practice but it’s not that difficult.

All their burs are for a size 1/16 collet so make sure you have that, you can also download a PDF copy of their catalogue which the original size of the burs once you print them.

Shipping is not that expensive I believe about $10 for every order under $100 dollars; though my last order took a week to ship, good thing I was in no hurry. Give them a try if you are looking for no hasstle, quality products with great customer service at a good price! They are closed and shut down their website to celebrate Jewish holidays. So if the site is down when you try it please try again at a later day. Thank you and I hope this helps! If you know of any other suppliers please give us the information so we can know about them as well! Thank you and happy engraving!

Foredom drills and micromotors - For the drill engraver

So… if you live in the USA I think this is one of the best places to get a micromotor or a flex-drill. Foredom has been in business for many years and their customer service is amazing! I bought a kit from them a year or so ago, that I have never had a problem with. It came with two hand pieces. The collets I use are (the sizes of burrs I use I should say) are 1/16”, 3/32” and 1/8” the number 28 hand piece is very nice, thin and light. The truth of the matter is that all you need is a hand piece, the motor, foot operated control and the sizes of collets mentioned before. So save your money and do not go buying a whole kit with dvd and all that good stuff! ≈ (that’s my opinion) We tend to over buy things when we do not know exactly where to start. The best thing to do is GOOGLE search. I got my kit which is listed here for over 400.00 dollars:

http://www.foredom.net/search.aspx?find=kits&log=false&category=38

however I got it for about 330.00 US Dollars. Foredom also sales diamond burs, which I have not tried, but I have tried their stone burs and were not very good. So I will post a supplier for burs later this week. This is the link for the micromotors (which I wont comment on because I do not own one and have no experience with them but if anyone know please comment)

http://www.foredom.net/micromotors.aspx

This is their link for some of the diamond burs

http://www.foredom.net/search.aspx?find=diamond+ball

here are the stone burs

http://www.foredom.net/search.aspx?find=Aluminum+Oxides%2c+3%2f32%22

Play with the site and do some searching you will find a lot of cool stuff!

I hope this helps you and please comment or write if you have any questions =0)

Also a few more things, make sure the motor is about 1/6 of horsepower and also make sure you get a motor hanger (unless you want to lay the motor down on a table) However I find it to be more practical if it is hanging. You can also buy a kit (like the one pictured above) on amazon.com (but remember you don't need a whole kit just the basic stuff) or as I said before, do some research and you might find it cheaper. Good luck =0)