So says New Jersey tumblogger Wilbur Pan, who had this no-longer-cheap engineer’s square hand-engraved by artist Catharine Kennedy: “Before anyone asks, yes, this square does let me mark lines better after the engraving. I am sure of that.”
And if you like that, you’ll love Ms. Kennedy’s online gallery. Even (or perhaps especially) in this age of robot engraving and photoetching, old-fashioned hand-engraving is a real treat. Hand-engraved work has a sculptural quality that is very difficult (or perhaps impossible) to fake. [via nerdstink]
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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
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