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  1. Roger Bleile

    Ken Hunt thread - engraving and artwork

    Harry Kell and Ken Hunt work at auction.
  2. Roger Bleile

    Info on an Engraver

    A friend pointed me to this on the internet: https://poshmark.com/listing/A-HYKES-14k-Sterling-Gator-Belt-Rare-Ventage-5cd0f4c1969d1fc89d3ffe21 Apparently Hykes specialized in buckles and other silver items. He also engraved cigar tubes.
  3. Roger Bleile

    Info on an Engraver

    Mike, Since nobody has replied to your question with an affirmative answer, I decided to comment since I am usually the "go-to" person here to answer "who dunit" questions. I have never heard of Alan Hykes. Perhaps that is because he didn't primarily engrave guns or custom made knives...
  4. Roger Bleile

    Announcement: Deep Relief Engraving Master Class video

    Who is the English lady doing the voice-over?
  5. Roger Bleile

    A fun diversion

    That is so cool. To think of the historic people who walked on those boards.
  6. Roger Bleile

    Colt Cylinder scene engravings

    I have that book and found it very informative. It explains, among other things, how the roll dies were made and used on percussion Colt cylinders.
  7. Roger Bleile

    A little scrollwork

    I recommend Brownells as a good source for gunsmithing, engraving tools and accessories. They are a major supporter and contributor to FEGA and are the original publisher of "The Art of Engraving" by James B. Meek.
  8. Roger Bleile

    HD Motorcycle Cover

    Good to see you posting your work again Paolo. Best wishes.
  9. Roger Bleile

    Bright cuts on firearms

    I agree. That is Flare Cut. Bright cut is the type of thing seen on western wear. The bracelet pictured below is an example of bright cut done by Chris Malouf.
  10. Roger Bleile

    Turntable use ... i dont get it :(

    Dan, I want to make it known that the picture of the bottom of the revolver is not my work. It is the work of the late J. Ron French of Texas. That was the first image I could lay my hands on that illustrated my point.
  11. Roger Bleile

    Turntable use ... i dont get it :(

    That works great as long as you are working on flat plates or something like a knife bolster but gun engraving is not that simple. Look at the picture below and tell me how you would clamp that up in your vise and keep the workpiece in focus as you work. Keep in mind that the front of the frame...
  12. Roger Bleile

    The Secret Meeting of Bulgarian Engravers 2020

    I think it is a joke. In the old Communist days everything in Bulgaria was a "secret." I wonder why the magnets are lettered in English rather than in Bulgarian.
  13. Roger Bleile

    Turntable use ... i dont get it :(

    When I wrote "sliding the jaws" I meant that the centering yoke has been removed from my vise so that I can slide the jaws side to side to get the area I'm working on in the center of rotation. If I was working on something like that buttplate in the picture above, I could slide the block of...
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    Turntable use ... i dont get it :(

    I do the trick by sliding the jaws side to side. I have a Leica scope and the field of view is very good. I just don't have a turntable and never learned to use one.
  15. Roger Bleile

    FEGA -The Engraver - issue 127

    Layne Zulke's article on becoming a gun engraver should be required reading by everyone even considering engraving guns.
  16. Roger Bleile

    Turntable use ... i dont get it :(

    Is it possible to effectively use a scope without a turntable? If so how?
  17. Roger Bleile

    Help, please: Is this hand engraved?

    Hand cut. Look at the bottom serifs of the 1s. The cut was started thin on the right then popped out at the end on the left. No rotary machine did that.
  18. Roger Bleile

    A book by Marty Rabeno?

    Yes on the smoke pulls!
  19. Roger Bleile

    The "Tombstone Trio"

    Mike, Thanks for the WIP pictures. Can you explain your process when working on multiple guns in a set. For instance you could engrave the first gun completely before moving on to the second gun or you could cut the cylinders of all three guns then move on to all three barrels, and so forth...
  20. Roger Bleile

    Engraved S&W Model 66-2

    Ray, At first the engraver's mark looks quite cryptic but if you use some imagination you can envision that the mark loosely resembles a Conestoga wagon. That is the mark of Vernon G. "Vern" Wagoner, late of Mesa Arizona. Vern was a WWII veteran who was initially trained as a jeweler and...

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