Raymond now uses a more modern hand-engraving technique than his father, and he recognizes that hand engraving is a dying art, mainly because machines are now taken over.

In the late ’60s, as machine engraving was coming into vogue, he opened an independent shop at Fifth Avenue and Broadway, Art Jameson Jewelry Engraver, where he continued to work by hand.

There are not many hand engravers left; it’s like everything — computers are doing more of the work. I’m still using the same tools from 2,000 years ago — just a piece of steel with a ...

Now, I use a hand-held engraver that’s like a small air hammer with a little piston inside. It gives me total control, and it’s faster, which is good for everybody.

When Zelesnikar is not at work, she is at home engraving, designing and making jewelry. Lynn Zelesnikar, a journeyman hand engraver, works on a piece at the silversmith shop of Colonial ...

But on this day, Meirose, 57, is quietly hand-engraving the name of the school into the side of college football's elusive prize for the second time this decade.