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  1. AllenClapp

    Help, please: Setting benches

    Tira Mitchell has a couple of benches. You can even get one with adjustable legs for height adjustment and you can get one that you can take down and take off to shows. https://www.engraver.com/benches/
  2. AllenClapp

    Critique Request Some doodles to show

    You may find that reducing some of the very long shade lines by adding a few leaf folds will add depth, particularly on the left side and bottom.
  3. AllenClapp

    Question: What 1911 to use as a canvas?

    If you are only interested in a slide to practice engraving, two sources are SARCO, Inc., and 1911 Builders. Availability varies. Right now 1911 Builders has nonfunctional slides available for 40. https://www.1911builders.com/product-category/blem-parts/ Sometimes they have blemished ones that...
  4. AllenClapp

    Latest knife learning inlay

    The shading on the leaves to emphasize the main vein appeals to me.
  5. AllenClapp

    Question: Cleaning wire after annealing

    What do you use to clean or neutralize it?
  6. AllenClapp

    Question: Cleaning wire after annealing

    What do you use to clean wire after annealing? I assume that it is always best to clean it before either drawing to a smaller size or inlaying. Correct? Do cleaning issues/solutions change between gold, copper, silver, and brass? If starting with new wire of the correct size, do you bother to...
  7. AllenClapp

    Question: What 1911 to use as a canvas?

    JJ, is the Lysol TBC for stripping off bluing or for stripping off Parkerizing? Or both?
  8. AllenClapp

    Question: What 1911 to use as a canvas?

    As to taking a 1911 apart, there are many books that include complete stripping instructions and many YouTube videos showing how to do so. As to taking off a Parkerized finish, many people just sand it off. However, there are some chemical solutions made for the purpose (most blue remover...
  9. AllenClapp

    Cleaning old Engraving

    I should have added something else to my comments. Using ultrasound cleaners and most of their related liquids to break loose screws and plates is relatively safe compared to using SOME chemicals commonly used to break screws loose. Some of them that are meant to loosen rusted screws can remove...
  10. AllenClapp

    Question: What 1911 to use as a canvas?

    Some classes at GRS use the Rock Island Armory GI series. They are relatively inexpensive and have a clean slide. The logo that you see on the slide is not engraved into it and the slide and frame clean up nicely with lots of room for most any kind of 1911 design...
  11. AllenClapp

    Cleaning old Engraving

    I used my ultrasonic cleaner to degunk a revolver that apparently had not been cleaned since I was born. That got me to where I could make screws work easily and parts slide. Then I took it down to parts and cleaned them all again. Even then, I wished I had thought of using my old electric...
  12. AllenClapp

    Cleaning old Engraving

    They can do a great job, but you have to immerse the whole item in the liquid. It sounded like all he wanted to do is clean the outside without taking things apart.
  13. AllenClapp

    Cleaning old Engraving

    Both dry and solvent-wet wooden toothpicks are useful. Both pointed and flat toothpicks are useful as they come, but I sometimes nip the ends off to get a little larger area. I LOVE THE IDEA OF THE ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH! I suspect most of us who use one also have an older model we can devote to...
  14. AllenClapp

    Critique Request Dainty flower

    Thank you for the photo. Makes great sense now.
  15. AllenClapp

    Critique Request Dainty flower

    I must still be sleepy this morning. I am having trouble figuring out what is going on with the flower petals--at least I assume they are petals. First, the central large vertical petal looks like it has jagged edges that curl around to the OUTSIDE. I don't recall ever seeing petals like that...
  16. AllenClapp

    Upgrade my current hone or go for GRS?

    My first response to your question dealt with the honing system itself. I thought that it might be useful to add some comments about the sharpening fixtures that are available. I started engraving in the 1990s using an earlier GraverHone and a sharpening fixture that held square graver stock...
  17. AllenClapp

    Upgrade my current hone or go for GRS?

    Your basic question seems to be whether buying a GRS Graverhone is worth the money, versus using a home-built wheel system. For me it was, and I am not making my living with engraving. I actually had an earlier version and upgraded to the current version for the extra features. First, it is very...
  18. AllenClapp

    Critique Request First time ever showing my work

    I like the design in general, but the shading seems a little flat. I think part of this is because all of the leaves are covered with shading and you have a lot of very long shading lines. You might want to consider folding some leaves over so that you break up the long shading lines. You also...
  19. AllenClapp

    Question: Newby question about sharpening

    The dual angle fixture holds gravers directly (i.e., NOT in a QuickChange holder). GRS has an adapter set that allows QuickChange graver holders to be used in the dual angle fixture.
  20. AllenClapp

    Comics

    The one above on resumes would make a serious bulino practice plate!

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