simply grab a lot of the facts and figures from the Turbo Carver
website and present them here. In fact, you can download a brochure
from the bottom of the next page, but I think personal experience
tells the story better... about why I use the Turbo Carver, even though
I own almost every high-speed air tool ever made. When I first
started, almost 20 years ago, I bought the Paragrave tool, which was
the only game in town. The entire kit was $3,500.00 including rights
to be a dealer. I bought it to personalize items and to engrave glass.
However, the second day I owned it I found eggs and although I do
still have an engraving business, carving eggs became my passion,
my means of expressing myself through art. When I began
buying them in order to be able to review them in my publication so readers would have all the pro's
and con's. I still do so when new drills come out. The photo below shows you a sampling of, from left to
right, the Endura, the Turbo Carver, the PowerCrafter, the SCM (really a Shofu), the Paragraver and -
at the bottom, a Turbi-flex, which hooks up to your vacuum cleaner. No, honest!
speeds of about 100,000 rpm's (faster and better than a Dremel, but
still not a serious, useful tool), until I found Turbo Carver I was a
dealer for most of the other drills which were all very heavy and
required oil as frequently as every 20 minutes. Plus, they all required
a water trap. Worst of all, they were all very expensive. Then along
came the Turbo Carver, something that looked as if it came out of a
Cracker Jack box. But, it was my job to buy and review it, so I did.
Quite frankly, I was shocked. For one thing, I was having tendonitis
and carpal tunnel problems at the time and the Turbo Carver only
weighed half an ounce! The other more expensive drills were all
far as fatigue was concerned. I never had to oil it and the entire system, with foot pedal, pressure
gauge, tubing, particle filter, burs, cleaning tool, mask, mylar pattern paper, patterns and video all cost
less than to replace one turbine in the more expensive drills! When I first started teaching classes I
would hand out all of the drills and tell the students to pick what was most comfortable and worked
best for them because I had plenty and some of them already owned the more expensive drills. Every
single one always chose the Turbo Carver. The weight was the first thing they noticed, but the fact that
they could actually "feel" what they were doing made it possible for them to go back and smooth cuts
like never before. The weight of the other drills were pulled down by gravity and nobody could feel
what they were doing. So they always ended up with rougher cuts than before they began the
smoothing.
For me, however, there were two other factors that made the Turbo Carver the only drill I ever use...
First, the head is so tiny that you can get the tool flatter against the surface of your eggshell while using
several techniques. But the most important advantage of all is that the Turbo Carver spins truer, or
more concentric, than any other drill I've ever used. That means I can make cuts and holes that are
almost on top of each other without breaking shell in between. I could never have made this duck egg
with any of the drills I have except my Turbo Carver. In fact, I had a student coming in who wanted to
use her own SCM drill. I had to rearrange my air lines to accommodate it and as long as I was doing
that, I decided to get my other drills out and see how they felt. I was absolutely stunned! I felt as
though I were using a chain saw rather than an expensive high-speed air tool in every case. I've used
the Turbo Carver for so long that I'd completely forgotten how primitive they were and how much the
burs wobbled. So I guess that's my personal testimonial and as a drill manufacturer said to me the
other day, "...you know more about air tools than anyone I've ever met!" Well, perhaps that's so, but I
doubt it. I know enough that if you have special needs that my products don't address, I can get you in
touch with the right person. But such needs are rare, so let's see what's up on the next few pages!
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