What is the guilling?
The guillochage is a guilling technique which consists in decorating the knives by motifs directly from your imagination and with your talent. You can perform a handling on the spring, the turntables and on the back of the blade. This sculpture is done by removing material with a small tool, usually a needle file. 
Which tool choose to make my guillochage?
Several choices are available to you: our Needle Limes declined in different shapes and types of cuts, to make the reason for your choice.
The advantages:
- - for precision operations.
- - Close and difficult areas.
- - At the unit or in kit.
- - Various forms: round, flat, triangles, ...
You can also use our diamond needle files, which will have a better durability, often used by art trades professionals like watchmaking, violinity, ... and cutlery.
Lime Guillochage - Fontenille Pataud
The advantages:
- - for precision operations.
- - Best life.
- - Use on hard metals.
- - Average particle size -> D126.
TIP: Guillochage is a complex and thorough job, we advise you to use our universal handle for more comfortable use and a vise to keep the workpiece from your knife.
A second way to achieve a spectacular guillo hand: our strawberries to mount on an electroportatitious tool like our polishing machine Great. It's a more careful method, but with just as incredible results.
Strawberry Guillochage - Workshop 1515
The advantages:
- - Precision - Very fine engraving.
- - Very hard metals.
- - Writing text.
I hope this little article will help you make your guillochage.
Do not hesitate to share your achievements on your knives!