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    working while staying at home

    It's not Corona, it's Yuengling. Ok, technically I'm still just drinking my usual one beer/day before dinner. However, I put the empties behind the tires of my 4Runner to flatten 'em when I back out of the garage and lately I've been setting new records for most cans crushed in a trip since...
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    How to transfer any image on metal

    My main problem with using parchment was that the toner was so fragile it flaked off with a stern look. I even tried rubbing the paper with acetone to improve adhesion, which helped a little, but it was still almost impossible to use without damaging the image. I finally gave up. Maybe using...
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    How to transfer any image on metal

    it would have to be printed on some sort of coated paper (silicone parchment?), because you can't just lift an image off plain paper with tape, regardless of the printer type- inkjet or laser.
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    Engraver's sample plate from 1902

    "he remembered a lot of engravers. Unfortunately they were all drunks and hung around Franklin Square." the more things change...
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    120 chips MUCH SHARPER than 90s

    and just so we're clear, this is not happening while brushing away chips, or accidentally trying to flick away a chip that's still attached, i'm getting stabbed by metal slivers that are just lying around loose on the surface of the work, on the surrounding vise jaws & base, etc. the sharp...
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    120 chips MUCH SHARPER than 90s

    No, I've come to really prefer the 120, but even being extra careful I'm getting kinda tired of being impaled. The left index finger I mentioned in my first post happened just by turning my vise and there was a chip hanging on the side. As far as I can figure, the 90 made a pointier, but more...
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    120 chips MUCH SHARPER than 90s

    Anybody else ever notice this phenomenon? I used 90deg square gravers almost exclusively for about 35 yrs, and during that time I might have stuck a chip in my finger a couple times a year. It virtually never happened. I used to walk around my workshop barefoot in the warmer months without a...
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    working while staying at home

    I keep telling people I've been working for myself, by myself, for going on 40 yrs so what everybody is now calling "social distancing" & "self-quarantining", I call "business as usual". If the power, gas, water, & food supply continues uninterrupted I can do this indefinitely. In fact, not...
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    600 dpi vs 1200 dpi

    i can't imagine any transfer-to-metal process will be perfect enough to see any difference. what are you engraving that you think you need resolution that high?
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    Design suggestions?

    I knew my 'peeps' would come up with some good ideas, thanks! The flames, spiky thistles, thorns, and tribal stuff all have potential. I'll keep y'all posted. I guess my entire career has been spent trying to make scrollwork as 'pretty' as possible, it just never occurred to me to make it...
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    Design suggestions?

    I have a client with a pair of pistols who wants them engraved in a "darker style bad dream and a more whimsical style good dream". Seems simple enough, right? Except he wants these themes depicted or evoked in all scroll, without resorting to 'cheating' by weaving in demons, dragons, skulls...
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    Leonardo Da Vinci s Treatise on Painting

    Just speaking for myself, I would disagree with the first sentence of the preceding paragraph. In most instances, I'm my own worst critic. Most of my career I've lived in fear of clients or fellow engravers seeing my mistakes...
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    Fracassi in the news

    in Brescia, so perhaps a relative? https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/03/18/report-respirator-valve-manufacturer-threatens-to-sue-over-3d-printed-copies-that-saved-lives/
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    Note to owners of "American Engravers III"...

    I just pulled out my copy for the first time in a few years to look at something a client wanted me to see and a LOT of pages were stuck together. Not horrible, mostly right along the edges, and not too tenaciously so they parted with little or no damage. I'd recommend pulling out your copy...
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    Kinda New Here

    Hi Joshua- My main suggestion at this point would be to work on tapering* your shade lines from fine/thin to heavier/thicker as they converge. This creates the nice gradient tones of light to dark and accentuates the illusion of depth between the 'high' areas and the 'low'. *i suppose it's...
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    Pancho Villa

    Roger, I'm not suggesting this piece is one of his, but didn't Cole Agee engrave some guns for Pancho Villa? Or am I confusing him, or perhaps both parties, with someone else?
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    Dammar Varnish

    I've aways just used the Winsor & Newton stuff in the bottle. Didn't even know it came in "Folger's crystals"! ;-)
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    Fixturing tip

    As many of you know, I'm a big proponent of fixturing parts on cylindrical blocks of wood. They allow an almost infinite degree of rotation, while providing parallel opposing surfaces for clamping securely in the vise. For smaller parts, hardwood dowels are handy, but they can be difficult to...
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    Scissors?

    yes, i do! mine are Gingher 5" craft shears. they're very sharp, but over the years i've occasionally wished for shorter blades with more mechanical advantage/leverage. they've gotten the job done for 30-some-odd years, but you might want to investigate some others' suggestions. also, i...
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    Question: Magnification

    a little Anbesol and you're good to go! Or maybe some oil of clove. Isn't that what Laurence Olivier used on Dustin Hoffman in "Marathon Man"?

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