Etch O Matic and Quality Stencils

AVigil

AVigil

Adam Vigil working the grind
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I know the Etch O Matic has been around for many years. I have read that some people did not like it because it left a fuzzy etching. But it appears they were using the cheap stencil material supplied with it.

If an Etch O Matic is used with a quality stencil from Ernie at Blue Lightening is the imprint one of quality?

Don't know if I want to cough up $150 for a Personalizer + $50 for a good stencil. The $80 cost of the Etch O Matic + $50 for stencil a little easier on the pocket book.

But if it does not leave a quality mark I would like to know.

Thanks
 
I had the etch-o-matic for a while and I used good quality professionaly produced stencils and it did ok, on metals that will take a quick etch it has enough power to work ok, but on stainless it takes too long and I think that is part of the problem. Put the $80.00 in you pocket and build your own, you will see alot of discussion on how to do it on this forum. I built mine and it works great, and for less than $80.00.
 
Patrickknives said:
Put the $80.00 in you pocket and build your own, you will see alot of discussion on how to do it on this forum. I built mine and it works great, and for less than $80.00.
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I second Patrick's suggestion, I built mine using the Bob Warner plans on Chris Crawford's site; works great.
 
I use Ernies stencils and a etch-o-matic and it works fine for me.

I have only marked 20-25 knives but no problems at all.
 
I'd go with making one its dead simple. It cost me nothing to build as i had all the parts laying around. The easiest way is to just get a AC charger and a DC charger both at around 12v and around 1amp. Plug them in and use the leads. You could build a enclosure to have it work like a etchomatic with switches. Even then it would cost you next to nothing and perform just as well.
 
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