[Jewelry making - Article 00142] - Re: GRS System 300

[MPark763]

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    Wendy, I have the benchmate also and love it, actually I have 6 of them and
    everyone loves them. We used the graver-mate air powered tool and the
    graver-max air powered tool for a couple of months and returned them. Heres
    why, we do tons of setting most of it channel setting, we have always used
    those pnuematic hammers on our flex shafts. I was told that these air
    powered tools were a god-sent and could push mountains of metal easily. The
    first problem was I needed a quiet air compressor because it runs all the
    time when using these (about $1000.00) and it was driving everone nuts
    (employees and other tenants in the building). This may not be nessesary
    depending on your situation. The big thing was it didn't move mountains of
    metal. Maybe my expectations were too high but for all that money it should
    open up the safe in the morning, take out the jobs and have most of them
    done by the time I walk in. Seriously it wasn't dramatically better than
    what we were using. I bet if I had sat with someone who had used it for
    years I may have been happier. I think new tools and technologies can
    really save you time and money, but with the hammer feature whether it is
    air powered or electric motor powered didnt make that much difference. The
    graver attachment would be helpfull if you do alot of bead setting and/or
    have limited arm strength, it did seem a little choppy but that would only
    take a little practice to correct. Fordoms graver flex shaft (I can't
    remember the name) didn't have enough push. For me we do engraving and bead
    work by hand, you would have to do alot to justify its puchase. If it was
    less costly I would probably buy it.

Mark P.


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