Wood Kit
wood burning kit or a soldering iron?
I am wanting to burn words into wooden frames and door plaques. Is it best to purchase a wood burning kit or a soldering iron?
The advantages of buying a wood burning kit is that is should have more choices of shapes of tips, the tips should be more easily replaceable than on many soldering irons and they might be cheaper. They may also be tougher, because especially small soldering irons are not designed for sideways pressure.
[edit-I went looking after writing this and found http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WSB25WB-25-Watt-Barrel-Woodburning/dp/B000EMBEY0 which is a lower price than most soldering irons and comes with a lot more tips.
I modified a couple of old soldering irons to make wax sculpting tools and made several tips. The ones I chose have a set screw for holding the tips, not the screw on that I couldn't fabricate from bare stock - here
http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/castgobl.htm#WAXTOOLS
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