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    Commercial post/announcement: my custom jewelry business

    I spent a long time looking over your etsy store and have a few impressions. The first is that the photographs should have been taken on more neutral background so the focus is on the product, not shared by the carpet looking reflections. Second is the range of prices for a small store. You have...
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    You Want Chips With That?

    There is no solution. The chips are little coiled springs that when released fly everywhere. Usually for me they fly forward so I have my block on a stand close to the bench. A lot of chips land on top of the bench but not all. When I moved into my present locationI put down a carpet and let...
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    Critique Request First real drawing

    The great thing about pencil and paper is that it comes with an eraser. With it you can make minute changes to a drawing so that it looks more balanced. With drawing you draw it with you hand, eye and brain coming together to work in unison to create; and it also helps you gain a better eye...
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    Critique Request First real drawing

    " It would be perfectly suitable for some, but if your just trying to figure things out and have zero artistic talent “myself” then a pencil and a piece of paper just changed my world. Sounds absurd to say out loud but there it is" We should give an award to Monk whose first rule is to pick up...
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    Dani The whole entanglement of intellectual property rights became really muddled in the 1990's when two members of the rock group, The Turtles, sued hip hop artist DeLaSoul for using a small portion of their music in one of his numbers. It was about 20 seconds of music that was looped and...
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    Printable drawings for practice plates

    Copyright law is why lawyers were invented. Goldjockey is right about his understanding copyright law. I can give an actual example. I created a jewelry design 22 years ago. It was made into a completely hand made pendant by me and listed in the store's catalog under my name. I sold over...
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    practice

    Its a lot better than your previous scrolls. The shade lines actually follow the leaves, the scroll cutting is much smoother with only one major flat spot. Pretty good. I think what happens when you start engraving you have to learn to see what you're looking at. And the beginning is starting to...
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    I customized my phone case.

    The problem we ran into was the amount of nickel in the mix. This was in the days the Hunt Bros. ( look up Silver Thursday on Wickepedia )tried to corner the silver market and drove the market price of silver wild. Nickel was introduced into a lot of different alloy mixes. Back then the tool...
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    I customized my phone case.

    They look great.The engraving is wonderful and even the cutting out looks incredibly precise. I always thought nickel silver was a hard metal to cut. In the old days ( think old days and then think even older ) I couldn't cut nickel silver with normal engraving tools and hand pushing them...
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    Laser engraving patterns

    Can't thank you enough for that explanation. Read it through a half dozen times before I realized what you were explaining. It was the explanation of how you used to lay one transparent piece of paper over another to create designs that opened it up for me. I understood the layer concepts when...
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    Laser engraving patterns

    Goldjockey wrote : 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...
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    practice

    Learning a craft that requires practice to improve is like learning a musical instrument. And if you've heard a young kid with a musical instrument practice in the beginning, that's where you're at with engraving. I'm sure there are some engravers who picked up a graver and started quick...
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    practice

    The difference in the plate shown on Feb 23 and today is amazing. Got a ways to go but the progress you are showing is an indication of increased understanding of the flow of the design and shading. One of the common mistakes that some beginner engravers make ( I was guilty of this 45 years ago...
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    FULL Engraving setup for sale

    I don't know about this issue with a stolen palm control, It seems to make sense. But I do have an issue with a guy who uses the forum only for a store front. If you go through his posts they are all buy and sell and nothing about actual engraving. I would not touch anything he's selling just...
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    Glock 43X

    The nDLC finish described on the Glock website: GLOCK's nDLC provides tougher, more durable protection than previously used finish. So what was almost engraving on a crazy hard metal seems to even harder to engrave. I think Mike 576 mentioned the metal was hard. Its hard. Allan
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    Question: Search colleagues

    Sorry for not contributing earlier but I've looked over your photos and they are fantastic. I used to do a lot of crest work but as I aged I gave it up to an apprentice. The detail and precision needed became more than I cared to handle. But your work is above and beyond; and the photos showing...
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    Just finished

    As an old engraver once said , " don't know what you're charging but it isn't enough" Incredibly beautiful, amazingly balanced and just dazzling. Allan
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    Nowruz in persia

    Happy Nowruz also to you. If you could make a photo of the Lighter as an attachment to a post it would be much easier to see. It took me a while to get it to a size where the beauty of your engraving was more visible but not in much clarity as it should have. I noticed a green tint in the...
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    thoughs?

    Not mandatory but probably expected because of wanting a gun like the one they've seen elsewhere. Not sure if you've finished your plate but its looking pretty good. The thing about english scroll is that its kind of dazzling. And the inexperienced eye has trouble focusing initially on one...
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    practice

    To make shading easier either get a hold of Sam Alfano's shading DVD or start copying with pencil and paper what you see of fine shading. As Monk always said, drawing is a big part of learning to engrave. To me the point of shading is using fine lines to establish the physical contour of the...

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