Removing electric pencil engraving

[B_noser]

It might be beneficial to LIGHTLY tap the area with a small hammer to cold-form raised metal back where it belongs prior to doing anything else. The same approach used to restore bu***red screw slots.

 

[blargon]

People are funny. Do these same people engrave their fishing rod, chainsaw or axe?

The old farmer that owned our place years had engraved every hand and power tool here, but not his firearms.

 

[got to go]

It's a shame that idiots that do these things don't do it in a hidden area. But idiots do what they do. Thanks Guy's

 

[bearhunter]

How'd they manage to get every example of a letter or number, so different from each other then? Not too many freehand operated Laser Engravers, I figure.

Or was it yours at some time?

LOL! at the 'harmonics' worries.

The way I see stuff like that, is that it's pretty much like a tattoo. You pretty much live with it the way it is, or cover the area with something bigger and uglier.

If the numbers themselves are the issue, get an Electric Pencil, make up a metal shield for a protective stencil, and proceed to 'stipple' the whole area to your satisfaction, obliterating them.

If you wanted to get really Artsy, inlay a plate of silver or gold and have a name engraved on it (your kid, your Mom, someone Famous (so you can tell whoppers about them owning it) etc. over the location.

How did they manage to get everything so straight and the numbers all a very similar size and font? I've seen lots of pencil engraving but that particular job would have to take an extremely steady hand. You could be right, maybe.