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  1. Goldjockey

    What's your favorite 1911 to engrave?

    Currently working a pattern for a 5" Springfield Armory 1911, and finding the factory logos and text on the slide a bit inconvenient and disruptive for good design flow. I'll make it work, but would like to work with something that provides a better all around blank canvas for the next project...
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    Stuff we listen to while we're engraving.

    Here' one for Roger. Cossack's Lezginka:
  3. Goldjockey

    Laser toner transfer discovery

    Just placed the order. Thanks Sam! Looks like I owe you a chicken dinner.
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    Stuff we listen to while we're engraving.

    Love bluegrass! Thanks for sharing the Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra with us :) Don't know if you've discovered Ricky Skaggs yet, but if not I think you'll enjoy his music as well.
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    Stuff we listen to while we're engraving.

    I love to have the shop filled up with music while I'm working. My tastes are eclectic, and I'm constantly going on YouTube journeys into different types of folk music. Recently, on one of these journeys, I discovered Otava Yo, and fell in love with the music.
  6. Goldjockey

    Pendant kit by Sam

    Seems like a very reasonable price for a set of expertly designed, and well made practice plates from one of the great grand masters of the engraving world, Sam! That and a license to sell the work?! Christ almighty!!! These should be flying off the shelves. Lately I find I'm having less and...
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    Question: Andu Engraver

    This is true. Viagra is now off patent for example. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is completely subjective.
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    EFFECT OF BLUING PROCESSES ON INLAY METALS

    Plating effect is an interesting idea. It's why jewelers use copper tongs rather than steel to take items out of hot pickling solution. What happens within the (acid based) pickle is that over time, copper which is present in sterling and other alloys leaches out and is suspended within the...
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    Question: Andu Engraver

    Those were wild times, Monk.... I was just trying to keep food on the table. What I learned first hand is if you have something worth stealing (specifically something that makes money), as sure as the sun rises, someone will come along to take it. Like clockwork. They won't ask permission, and...
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    Question: Andu Engraver

    True Mitch. The cases involved jewelry counterfeited from my copyrighted designs, and rest assured we did seize suitcases full of the stuff, and I personally oversaw its destruction at Academy Refining in Albuquerque.
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    Question: What to Charge?

    What governs pricing for something of this nature is not the time involved or whether or not one is starting out, but an important intangible called 'Perceived Value'. Starting out or not, be acutely aware that whatever you charge will be the value the world tends to place on your work from that...
  12. Goldjockey

    Need A Better Microscope!!!

    OK. I'm sold. Thanks Sam!
  13. Goldjockey

    Need A Better Microscope!!!

    My current set up is a Meiji EMZ5 on an old Acrobat stand. It works, but I find myself constantly adjusting focus and zoom to stay precisely on target and within depth of field/focus. Not casting shade on the Meiji, but getting tired of reaching up to focus within an extremely limited depth of...
  14. Goldjockey

    Silver Finger Picks

    Really beautiful picks. looks like the dies are laser engraved from original drawings, struck flat and formed around a mandrel?
  15. Goldjockey

    Silver Finger Picks

    Not to get away from the thread, but holy cow! Just incredible. Sam! Seafood, to wild game, to goats! This has everything!!! Whatever this is on, the incredible work and detail makes me want one : )
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    Spiral Staircase

    Absolutely stunning photo.
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    Silver buckle source

    PM sent.
  18. Goldjockey

    Bench Pin

    Dan's suggestion is a good one. Will definitely work. Theres also a non elevated version I've used that clamps directly to an ordinary workbench top: https://www.riogrande.com/product/fancy-v-slot-bench-pin-and-clamp/110013 Along the same lines, many former employees, Navajo silversmiths, used...
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    Question: What Drawing Skills Are Needed for Engraving?

    One piece of advice I can offer, is to practice and design iteratively. Pick up traceable paper at your local art supply store, and rather than recreating the drawing each time, draft by draft, from scratch, use one draft to trace the backbone, and the parts of your design you are happiest with...
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    Critique Request New member..."first practice plate"

    Really beautiful. I don't have a problem with the design exceeding the borders, but the design could benefit from a second square outward proportional border to frame it in. You've got some blank areas in the upper left and lower right hand corners that need to be proportionately filled in...

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