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    Question: Inscribed Model 1886 Winchester

    John, I'd hate to disagree but what jumps out at me is the spacing of the letters, its too good. Plus the wobble in the letters is more an indication of the old New Hermes pantograph machine, where the type when it was worn would wobble when the stylus was in it. Plus look at the two lower case...
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    Question: Inscribed Model 1886 Winchester

    The thing that jumps out at me is the lettering. Its too well spaced, with a firm bottom and top line for the lower case letters. To me it looks like machine engraving. Even the C in county looks like an uppercase O with the right side not scribed all the way round to give it a c shape. If...
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    Polishing after engraving

    I deal with surface scratches all the time. There are two problems with using a buffing wheel. The first, of course is if the person is heavy handed it takes a lot of the engraving into the wheel. The second is, even if the buffer is using sparingly, it will round off the edges of the cut...
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    Honest Question

    I didn't realize I was eligible for "old fart" certification but I am. I asked my wife ( she who must be obeyed ) if she minded if I apply for this honor and she told me not to bother. I was unanimously elected about five years ago and she would have told me but didn't bother because I never...
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    Critique Request Balanced pendant for beginner

    A few things I've thought about this. The first is whether you're going to be engraving this on something or cutting it out. If your going to be engraving this onto a piece of metal you can choose the shape of the metal to fit the design with a few modifications. It might go well on a heart...
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    Honest Question

    "Maybe in 30 years the demand of such firearms will be back to the level that it was in the 1990's." "anything's possible, but I doubt it." I doubt it as well. There are things that lose a lot of value because no one wants it anymore. Doesn't matter what craft, they all go through phases of...
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    Question: Help me to know that happen at curve

    td lewis is right as is Monk. Its one of those things that hard to get a picture of. But basically what is happening is the point of the tool and the back end of the tool are in different places in the groove. So as the point is moving forward the back end has to swing wider to stay in the...
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    Honest Question

    John Life in the real world. I do jewelry engraving, not knives or guns. For about 15 minutes I was planning to switch over to doing some knives and did engrave a buck knife. I showed it to someone whose family collects knives and firearms and he put a price on it of 85.00. It was a decent...
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    lettering

    First, I'm assuming what you call shade lines are the thicker part of a script letter and the hair lines are the thinner cuts that connect the thicker cuts. Jewelry engravers usually call the thicker sections bright cuts, since they are usually are cut with a polished tool and reflect a lot of...
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    Cup & Spoon

    I get a lot of silver cups from Salisbury Pewter to engrave. Pretty good stuff & has a nice finished polish on it. Made in Salisbury Md. What to watch out for is a set where the handle rises above the rim of the cup. Its harder to hold. Look for ones where the handle is even or slightly...
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    Sketch for a bracelet

    Louis There are a lot of great engravers here to follow and I look and sketch the work of a lot of them. But for me Sam is in a category all his own. The first week I got a computer I went on line looking for engravers. Sam had a page where he was engraving humidors with a hammer and chisel. ...
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    Sketch for a bracelet

    That's a nice beginning sketch. It starts off well at the circle cartouch where the initials will go. But it seems to get overly complicated the farther west it goes. Silver can be annoying to cut the background away and what you have sketched is a lot of work for a silver bracelet. When I...
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    Concerning the business of engraving.

    There is a lot of great advice here. Tim is right, don't rush into putting out work until it is ready. But there is another bit of advice I have to give. It comes from the first master engraver who agreed to teach me. He told me that the moment you have decided to one day make money from...
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    Vineyard belt buckle

    When I started engraving in the jewelry business one of my teachers told me flat out that your first customers will be bad pays and deliver zero on promises made. And that's the way it worked out for the first few months. But the point he also made was that you get real work to engrave. Not...
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    Question: background removal vs placing cut peices of metal?

    John knows what he is talking about. But here's a reply from someone with no experience in inlay. Its probably just easier to do this specific piece that way. If its put on a setter's shelac or hot glue you can really shape the legs round without worrying about rubbing on the other...
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    lettering questions.

    Try dafont.com or 1001freefonts.com both sites have different styles of fonts with free download and play with. They should install in a word program with a little bit of finagling. I use a Mac and it took a bit to figure out how to install the fonts I downloaded; but once installed they...
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    Diane Scalese

    Go to GRS.com. Under the shop tab look for study material, there a section for videos. When you go to the video section go to page 2. Its on the bottom of page two listed as Western Bright Cut Engraving. Not sure if I remember this right but there may be a few videos on the FEGA site as well.
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    Flat Disk Grinder - Glass to Carbalt?

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    Flat Disk Grinder - Glass to Carbalt?

    " Folks here are from many different parts of the world, using maybe different words/vocabulary for the very same thing ... ... If I ve been mistaken, sorry for the confusion! " There has been confusion trying to get the exact meaning of words since words were created. The hardest part about...
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    Critique Request First piece of silver jewelry

    Its a good first piece but Monk is right. In fact the shading starts to dissipate ( first time I've used that word in 50 years. ) from left to right. The left hand scroll has decent shading, the right hand scroll not so much. Doing this without a scope is a definite challenge. Takes a lot of...

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