Our Best Mezzotint Rockers

Rockers are (7 inches long) including the stained birch handle and made with the highest quality high carbon tool steel, EC Lyons rockers are known world wide as the finest mezzotint rockers available.

These tools come in standard width sizes 1/2, 1, 2, 2-½, inches wide. The gauge (screen) sizes are available in Course (45), Medium (65 and 85), and Fine (100) lines per inch.

By working the rocker (with a rocking motion) over a copper/zinc plate in a criss-cross fashion one creates burrs that will trap the ink to produce rich velvety black tones unequaled in any other intaglio process.

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We Sell the Best Quality Tools for Metal Work, Leather Work, Printmaking, Jewelry Making, Wood Carving, and More!

 In 1937, along with two partners, Donato Ramello, a skilled craftsman, founded the U.J. Ramelson Company, Inc. and quickly established themselves as the leader in quality, American made hand tools.  The family tradition of excellence continues with third generation owners. Blending age old traditions with advanced technologies, our tools are made of the finest carbon tool steel, hand forged, heat treated and tempered by our own expert craftsmen.  Each tool is polished, sharpened and brushed to keep U.J. Ramelson on the cutting edge in serving the woodcarver, jeweler, artist, student and hobbyist well into the 21st century.