We purchased the trophy and engraving business from it’s previous owners about three years ago.  Included in that purchase was the engraver they were using – an old-ish Gravograph IM3 manual pantograph engraver.  Even today, this engraver still gets some use from time to time for particular jobs.  On the whole, though, the fact that it is a completely manual engraving process means that it isn’t particularly time efficient for anything other than fairly small engraving jobs.  It’s also a bit limited for the choice of font faces available.

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