engraver

One worrisome data point is the increased impact of the Douglas fir engraver beetle.

They might not be aware that those signatures go to an engraver, who uses them to decorate that year’s trophy.

Blake left school at the age of 10, having learned to read and write, and he was apprenticed at 14 to a commercial engraver.

Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years, played a key role in the transformation, Ayo said.

“The main thing is practice,” said Raftery, 61, who picked up a burin, the engraver’s tool, in his third year of art school and was hooked.