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  1. Goldjockey

    Looking for diamond setter - Houston area

    My design and bench work for the last 30 years has been primarily hand fabricated mixed precious metals jewelry. I stopped designing for stone settings, and went to metals only around 1990, because for my market at that time in high end American Southwestern, and Native American jewelry, the...
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    Looking for diamond setter - Houston area

    Looking for a diamond setter Houston area, or elsewhere in the US to whom we can outsource setting jobs, for single melee gypsy set stones - up to 3mm, in our hand fabricated wedding bands. A big plus if you can supply good commercial quality stones at a reasonable price along with setting...
  3. Goldjockey

    Procreate Sculpting Tutorial

    Great tutorial! Thank you, Marius.
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    Yep. Anytime one puts a work out there, physically, digitally, in a drawing, or in print, that is considered publication. If you plan on registering a copyright for the work, keeping track of the date and form of first publication is particularly important. Your practice plate drawings are lovely!
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    Hi Dani. There is something called ”fair use”, which permits copying strictly for personal use. It isn‘t illegal to copy something, say an engraving design one finds on the internet or in a book, and use it for one’s personal studies. However, if one takes that design and uses it in a...
  6. Goldjockey

    How to hammer this pattern into a die for fine-silver coinmaking

    To preface a bit, my background is in hand fabricated jewelry design and production using many of the traditional processes and techniques employed in traditional Navajo silversmithing, so my suggestions are from that perspective. Presuming the dome has to be precise, and that you intend to...
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    A Copyright comes into existence the moment a work is fixed in tangible form. Registration is advisable if one wishes to protect their copyrighted work, and generally speaking it becomes necessary if there is litigation or a legal dispute involving copying, or unauthorized reproduction of a...
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    How to hammer this pattern into a die for fine-silver coinmaking

    Harper Mfg. in Idaho may be able to make a die for your pattern. Most people use a press to impress the die into metal. However, we used to use a 5 lb sledge hammer and stump mounted anvil to hand stamp large designs and patterns into precious metal. https://makersrow.com/harper-manufacturing-co...
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    Laser engraving patterns

    Hi Allan. I sort of got off in the weeds, but I’m glad the description helped. Once one gets used to Procreate, it is very much like drawing with pencil and paper, or pen and paper, brush and paper, depending on what brush you choose to work with. The layering occurs within a single procreate...
  10. Goldjockey

    Buying and Selling Rules?

    Good morning, Danae. Have you considered making and selling an engravers video tutorial for Concepts? The work you’re doing with the app is really outstanding.
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    Laser engraving patterns

    Haha! Ok. Layers function lets me export each layer as an individual PNG file. The brushes feature along with progressive pressure sensitive line width - using Sam’s engraving brushes - allows one to recreate the delicate progressive taper of engraving cuts. Beyond that since one is working...
  12. Goldjockey

    Printer

    Lovely work Danae. I experimented with Concepts for vector drawings, but found the program difficult and limiting to work with. It’s very encouraging to see what‘s possible, and you’ve really done beautiful work. Edited: Question withdrawn.
  13. Goldjockey

    Laser engraving patterns

    Good evening, Monk. For me Procreate offers a number of advantages. Layering, the ability to create strokes that accurately represent the taper and flow of engraving cuts, native high resolution output, and the ability to refine and edit the design iteratively to work optimally with the vector...
  14. Goldjockey

    Laser engraving patterns

    In my experience a good fiber laser is an excellent way to transfer designs especially if one is doing multiples of the same pattern, and needs both speed and a high degree of fidelity. Also experimenting with output that has the look and feel of good hand engraving. Still working out some of...
  15. Goldjockey

    Modern Hi End Shotguns and their engravings. Some observations...

    Bravo! Always the right answer.
  16. Goldjockey

    Fire at will !

    Really lovely. Well done! Central element diamond with G needs to connect to outer borders for visual anchoring and continuity. Border around G needs to be equal in width, or ever so slightly wider than outer border. Looks like you have the space to accomplish this without impinging on the...
  17. Goldjockey

    Critics welcomed !

    If it's an open shank, you'll want the actual end to end length to be 6" for an average man, and 5 1/2" for a average woman. 7 1/2"end to end will end up large enough to fit a 6'8" 450 lb. linebacker. Design looks great! I would add an inner border of about 3/32" to 1/8" all the way around and...
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    Critique Request Gift for my wife

    Looks good. However even with 14 gauge the narrowest areas of the design are major stress points for a functional pull. Suggest adding additional elements in these areas to provide additional support. Also agree with Allen regarding pointy edges. You might consider doing this as an appliqué over...
  19. Goldjockey

    Help, please: Need FFL in California

    Is that CA state law(?), because it certainly isn't federal. Federal law provides that any lawful US gun owner may send his gun to an FFL for work and receive it back from the FFL when the work is finished. CA DoJ might be the rub there though, because they want you to have a CA DoJ...
  20. Goldjockey

    Looking for engraver for medieval breastplate

    My first thought was tooled leather applique, dyed or painted to match, and applied with a durable adhesive over the metal breast plate. As the appliqués are purely decorative, it seems there would be a number of ways to achieve the effect. Tooled leather over metal seems to be a natural and...

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