Introducing TURBO CARVER II

Incredibly smooth and as easy to use as a pencil, Turbo Carver II, gives you the power to create beautifully detailed engravings and relief carvings in Wood, Glass, Bone, Stone, Paper, Leather, Hard Metals, Eggs, Antler, Gems, and the like. If you can trace a line, using our stencil systems, training video and the ultra high speed hand piece you can create beautiful engravings and carvings with your first try.

Slow speed rotary tools operate on high torque (power) and low revolutions. Ultra High Speed tools on the other hand, operate at extremely high rotational speed, 450,000 RPM (called angular velocity) but with very little torque. That is why Turbo Carver II is so easy to control even on the hardest of materials. You can carve across the grain, with the grain, through a knot hole, and even into the end grain of a piece of wood, without reacting to, or following the grain. You can engrave or carve with the ease of a pencil on the hardest of materials. You can engrave a piece of blown glass, then drill a hole through it without breaking the glass. You can use it like you would use a knife to cut intricately fine filigree patterns in paper, leather, gasket and other materials.

All slow speed rotary carving tools operate at low speed due to their motor bulk, friction or field switching restrictions. Slow speed hand pieces use 1/8 inch diameter burs while ultra high speed instruments use 1/16 inch diameter dental burs. The slow speed hand piece is very good at doing bulk or gross reduction where detail and precision is not a consideration. For engraving, doing fine details or carving in things like knot holes, end grain of wood or cork, nothing can beat an ultra high speed instrument.

Ultra high speed hand pieces have a light weight turbine with a diameter of less than 1/4 inch. Therefore compressed gas can spin these turbines at very high speeds exceeding 450,000 RPM. On the other hand, there is hardly any torque produced by these instruments, hence the ability to carve in extremely fine detail. The principal behind ultra high speed instruments is angular velocity, not torque. The advantage of these instruments lies in their phenomenal ability to precisely remove material, without stressing what you are working on.

Turbo Carver II only uses 1/16 inch diameter cutting bits called Friction Grip Dental burs. These burs are available in Carbide, Diamond, Stone and Rubber. We stock about 30 of the most appropriate burs used for engraving and carving.

Turbo Carver II weighs only 1/2 ounce. It can be used by people with arthritis and other joint maladies because there's no weight, vibration or torque transmitted to the handle. If you accidentally drop a metal hand piece, there is a good chance you will destroy the bearings or break the bur. Turbo Carver II is so light, it resists breakage if you drop it on the floor.

Because Turbo Carver II is made from precision injection molded plastic it could be designed small and simple. It has been said and demonstrated that simplicity is elegant. Small size also increases your visibility and improves access in hard to reach areas.

It is the only instrument with a comfortable textured rubber grip. Turbo Carver II is not affected by moisture, a serious problem for metal instruments. Hand pieces with aluminum handles are very susceptible to oxidation from moisture coming through the air lines. Oxidation is what sand paper is made from and it will destroy the bearings if it forms within the hand piece. For this reason, metal hand pieces require an expensive moisture trap installed in the air line. Unfortunately, the moisture trap will not prevent water from getting into the hand piece while working with water as needed for hard materials.

This is the only hand piece available on the market with an optional Water Mist Spray. This atomized cloud of water eliminates 95% of the fine dust and fumes associated with carving in materials like bone, egg, glass, gemstones, eggshell, antler. It also keeps the bur cool for longer life and prevents any kind of fracturing of the material being carved. Creating a finer cut and strengthening porous materials is another advantage of this technology.

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Our unique design incorporates a comfortable textured rubber grip. The design also allows you to loop the tool over your finger, should you need both hands free.

Dirty drive air is the cause of many bearing failures. Turbo Carver II comes with a 5 micron in-line with the foot control air filter, which removes any oxides or minute particles that get through the main filter.

Turbo Carver II incorporates a miniature in-line air pressure gauge. This gauge is used to determine with more accuracy, the optimum setting on your air compressor regulator. Too little pressure and you won't get good results, too much and you risk destroying the hand piece. You can not rely on the gauge on the compressor because vibration and age reduce their accuracy. Also, pressure is lost in the tubing that goes between the regulator and hand piece. As much as 1 PSI can be lost per linear foot of tubing.

Turbo Carver II comes with a variable foot control, an expensive option with the competition.

All ultra high speed air-driven hand pieces have an inherent problem. They draw contamination into the front bearing whenever you operate the instrument. The effect is called Carman Street Vortex and is a leading cause for bearing failure. This means when the drive air to the turbine is shut off, it takes several seconds for the turbine to spin down. During this time the turbine becomes a vacuum pump and pulls airborne contamination into the bearings.

Turbo Carver II has solved this problem with a patented pinched valve/air regulator mounted on the exhaust port. This regulator maintains positive pressure within the turbine housing during shut down, thus preventing a vacuum from forming. Once the hand piece is turned off and set down, the one-way valve closes shut thus preventing dirt from entering through the exhaust port.

The second cause for bearing failure is heat buildup in the rear bearing. During operation air passes through the front bearing because of the path available around the spindle. However, there is not enough pressure within the turbine housing to get a good air flow around the rear bearing. The pinched valve on Turbo Carver II increases the operational pressure within the turbine housing. This increased pressure makes it possible to create an air flow around the rear bearing.

The third reason for bearing failure is caused by the lubrication process. Manual and automatic lubrication is an imprecise procedure and too much oil is as bad as too little. Also, no matter how careful one is it is inevitable that dirt is going to be introduced during lubrication. Turbo Carver II uses the most advanced bearing technology available to eliminate the need for external lubrication. The bearings used in this instrument are Lubricated For Life and because of this the bearings will last much longer. We have recently increased the warranty on the bearings from 3 to 6 months and additional testing will probably increase the warranty to 1 year in the near future.

Our instrument is the only one that will operate on both compressor air or as an option, bottled CO2. CO2 has the advantage of being less expensive than an air compressor, weighs less and is therefore easier to haul around. CO2 does not require electricity and is totally quiet. This makes it easy to work in remote locations or places where power is not available; it's ideal for trade shows.

Turbo Carver II is a complete package with hand piece, variable speed foot control, small particle air filter, in-line air pressure gauge, training video, 2 burs, operators manual, bur catalog, sample of our peel off mylar stencil material, small brush and dust mask. Also available with 1/2hp tank-less air compressor and foot operated electrical switch to operate compressor and Water Spray System.