How to do wood engraving on your pet urn.
Note: You can do wood engraving with a wood burning tool and these are relatively cheap but they can be difficult to use for this sort of detail without quite a bit of practice. However, if you would prefer to take your urn somewhere, here is a list of places that do laser engraving. With laser engraving you can have words or images engraved on wood.
done on a wood pet urn with a magnifying
glass. Click on the image to see it enlarged
Pet Urn
Before you engrave your wood urn, you should practice for a few minutes on a spare piece of wood. Take a small smooth piece of wood and write some words on it with a black ball point pen. Trace back over the words a couple times to make sure they are very dark. (The reason for this is because when you hold the magnifying glass over the wood to "burn in" the words you have written, the dark ink on the wood burns much faster than the surrounding area and this makes it very easy to trace over the words with the hot "bead" created by holding the magnifying glass away from the wood.) Go outside on a sunny day with few clouds and set the piece of wood down in the sun with the side of the wood the words are on facing the sun. Take a magnifying glass and hold it about a foot away from the piece of wood and directly inline between the wood and the sun. Move the magnifying glass closer to the piece of wood until it makes a very small bright circle on the one of the words on the piece of wood. Once you have made a small circular bead on one of the words, as soon as it starts to burn, start moving the magnifying glass very slowly and trace the words on the wood.
Now that you have practiced engraving a few words on a scrap piece of wood you are ready to engrave your urn. At this point the words you want to engrave should already be written lightly in pencil on your urn and you are almost ready to engrave it. Before you burn over the words you have written on your urn, you will want to trace over them with a black ball point pen. After you have done this, you are ready to take your urn outside and burn in the words you have written on it just as you did with the scrap piece of wood.
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Creating Pet Urns - Home Materials: What You Will Need & Where You Can Get It Part 1: Preparing Your Wood Urn Part 2: Engraving Your Wood Pet Urn Part 3: Laminate Pictures To Your Urn |