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    Cafe Support

    Sorry to respond so late, been crazy busy because of Christmas. I remember emailing with you for a short time. But then my wife almost died twice during that time and everything, including my work, fell aside. She's great now; learned to walk, talk, eat and complain again. It was amazing...
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    Cafe Support

    T.G. Thanks very much for this. Of course when I wanted to reset my password I couldn't answer the security question until a dead one simple came up. Allan
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    Cafe Support

    So I went to post something on the Classified page and couldn't because I haven't sent in my semi-annual support contribution. So I went looking on the cafe website and couldn't find where to donate and to who it should be made out to. Can anyone show me the way back into the fold? Thanks Allan
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    Graver Sharpening Help (please)

    Like oniemarc said plus few other things. If you are very new with engraving it may take you a bit of time to get used to the tool. Engraving is not magic and takes a bit of adjustment to get your hands and eyes working together. Second is getting a piece of non-textured metal so you can see...
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    New work: J.Mitchell MoP Slipjoin folder engraved by me. 24k wire inlay, diamond setting

    John I'm a big fan of her work.. She has a knife, and Sarah, I'm sorry if I shouldn't use this picture without your permission. But it's fabulous and has a prehistoric type crocodile on one side that's truly great. But if you look at the scroll from this knife you see the same shading but it...
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    New work: J.Mitchell MoP Slipjoin folder engraved by me. 24k wire inlay, diamond setting

    I like this as well but I have a problem with the shading inside the gold inlaid scrolls. For me it doesn't harmonize with the fine shading on the leaves. Just doesn't have the finesse of the leaf shading which I really like. I don't do scroll engraving in my work, I do lettering for jewelers...
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    Engraver Identity Colt Woodsman

    Just a hunch but could CC stand for Corpus Christi ?
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    Microscope setup to avoid back and neck pain.

    The only thing I notice, other than the glass of healthy juice sitting on the bench top, is that you may be sitting pretty rigid, With the microscope in a completely vertical position you may be unconsciously stretching to microscope which causes the muscles to tense. Also the block is all the...
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    Otto Carter did the same for the PGA Wanamaker trophy. Something I wouldn't want to do. watch
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    Microscope setup to avoid back and neck pain.

    That's a good point. Because I engrave a lot of different items during the day I'm constantly changing the microscope tilt angle to a more comfortable place. Allan
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    Microscope setup to avoid back and neck pain.

    Scott Pilkington has a video on you tube about this
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    The Hand Engraving Podcast, Episode 7. Beginners Start Here…is on the air

    I've listened to every episode and I'm a dedicated listener. Every show has been interesting and worth listening to. Sam Alfano is great at promoting hand engraving in a lot of different forms. But if you've been engraving for a long, long time then you would remember when, unless you knew...
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    Lettering Sample Plate

    AO84 Well the flat tool in a lot of jewelry engraving has been mostly replaced by liner tools since they are easier to cut with. I still use a lot of flat tools mostly for cutting script letters and inside ring engraving. In the plates lettering examples you're right in that in creates the...
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    Lettering Sample Plate

    Sam My wife and I had a talk about what I should do when I actually retire. She said I should take up a hobby. I said it was a good idea, so how about I try hand engraving? I plan to retire from the store I deal with once my apprentice is sufficiently trained to take over. After that I plan...
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    Lettering Sample Plate

    This is a sample plate that was given to me when I helped an apprentice purchase used engraving supplies. The guy who sold the supplies had a father who engraved jewelry. It was given to the father, passed down to the son and he gave it to me because he had no one to leave it too. . I tried a...
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    Emu egg

    I really like this. The lettering has an antique style of layout which looks great. The name does not get lost in the scrolls. The scrolls give the inscription a kind of unity where it ties everything together. And the sculpted emu is also above since instead of being a profile where the...
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    best way to sharpen beginner

    ALK123 The size blank you ordered from GRS is fine to start with. I buy blanks and if I need a thinner one for a certain job I just grind the sides down to what I need. The process of sharpening works on any width of square stock. I even have a few square gravers that look like sewing needles...
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    best way to sharpen beginner

    AJB Using the cheaper gravers to get the sharpening down is a good idea. Being able to sharpen precisely with templates and fixtures is actually a new thing, maybe just thirty years old or so. But before that all tools were hand sharpened and yet still produced some pretty impressive work over...
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    best way to sharpen beginner

    AJB There are a lot of different square stock gravers available. But no matter what the recipe for the steel the main thing is sharpening it correctly. As a novice engraver it makes life a lot easier. If your expensive and cheap tools are sharpened correctly, use identical layouts to test...
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    best way to sharpen beginner

    AK123 Sam's video is great way to sharpen until you get a more accurate setup. Takes practice but in a little while you should get the hang of it. Take a closer look at the length of sharpened sides. It may seem really short, but if its what he goes for you should too. Plus at the beginning of...

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