A record on a tray

[Forest Cobbler]

I'd be interested to know if any of you have come up with an ingenious way to hold a Chippendale style tray, so that you can engrave an annual record somewhere around the edge. 

 

Or, come to that, a footed tray. The feet are always in the wrong place.

 

Or even a completely round tray, when you need to line your entry up underneath a whole list of others, and get it straight. 

 

This is a perpetual time wasting problem, and one of the main reasons that we charge so much more for putting a yearly record on a tray than we do for anything else.

 

I cannot be the only one who gets them in.

 

 

[Craig Gardner]

What machine are you using a salver even Chippendale is quicker to engrave than a cylindrical cup

 

Craig

[Forest Cobbler]

It's a universal 300. 

 

Holding a chippendale tray and engraving something in the middle isn't an issue, it's when they come back year after year for an annual record to be added to the ring of records around the edge. Because a chippendale tray has such an uneven edge it's often difficult to line it up when you've got it turned round 30 degrees from true.

 

I'm just hoping that one of you geniuses has come up with a different means of holding them. 

 

I'd rather do a cup any day.

[Craig Gardner]

turn the text 30deg on screen not the salver

 

Craig

[Gray]

I concur.  Select rotate and hold down Ctrl while dragging, rotation angle restrained to 15 degree increments. You can change the snap angle in the tools menu, Options menu

[beware]

Point and shoot line to get the angle. Is that possible on Universal?

[Forest Cobbler]

If it is, I've not come across it. 

 

Thanks for the other suggestions, I'm obviously just overthinking things.