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  1. Roger Bleile

    Help, please: Who engraved this model 71?

    JJ, Emma Achleitner was from Austria. While German and Austrian work is similar there are subtle differences.
  2. Roger Bleile

    Help, please: Who engraved this model 71?

    This rifle was engraved by a Japanese engraver using German style scroll. Over the years I have seen many guns that were engraved in Japan for occupation troops or by Japanese engravers who came to the US on work visas. While the scroll on this gun looks German at first blush, there are several...
  3. Roger Bleile

    has any one ever built a air engraver

    The Murphy machine is unique in that it operates the handpiece via a reciprocating Bowden cable. Not having handled the machine myself, I'm not sure if the cable makes the graver reciprocate or if the cable is attached to a piston that strikes the graver. Perhaps J.J. knows as he has seen the...
  4. Roger Bleile

    Laser "engraved" Beretta

    Here is a link to the Talo Nimschke edition that Sam saw: http://www.taloinc.com/colt-firearms/o1070a1ldn-colt-nimschke-engravers-edition
  5. Roger Bleile

    Laser "engraved" Beretta

    Despite my comments above, I am a Beretta fan, when it comes to shotguns. Beretta offers good quality for price and has a very broad range. Being a Mercedes Benz fan as well, I think the two companies are a parallel comparison. Firstly, they are both the oldest companies in their respective...
  6. Roger Bleile

    For those really BIG engraving projects

    I don't believe those were originally made for engraving. They were made for working on automotive and industrial products.
  7. Roger Bleile

    Laser "engraved" Beretta

    "Starting at $19,999.00" That is a high price for a sideplated boxlock shotgun with laser etching. At that price, you can get a like new, used Beretta S3 or SO5 with sidelocks and hand cut engraving. My objection to Beretta's description is calling laser etching "engraving." Many gun companies...
  8. Roger Bleile

    Liner Gravers

    I wonder if any or our British colleagues know anything about the tool maker, Stubs.
  9. Roger Bleile

    Dragon crest seal engraving

    Very nice work, Nick and I will add very nice photography.
  10. Roger Bleile

    Liner Gravers

    This is an example of wriggling a liner tool to create background for flare cut scroll. In this example I have wriggled the tool in one direction then wriggled a second time 90 degrees to the first pass.
  11. Roger Bleile

    Bank note portrait graver.

    Bob Swartley and his works are featured in my first two books, American Engravers (1980) and American Engravers-The 21st Century (2010).
  12. Roger Bleile

    Birthday Pie for Ron Smith.

    My best wishes to Ron and Liz. Happy 80th!
  13. Roger Bleile

    engraving monogram in walther ppk

    That monogram has a sort of Aztec look to it.
  14. Roger Bleile

    Curious about the Engraver

    Your pictures lack enough detail to determine much about the engraver. I can see enough to tell that this is not the work of a Colt factory engraver. Sharply focused, well lit, close-up photos of portions of the scrollwork and initials might tell me who engraved your gun. The initials EJS don't...
  15. Roger Bleile

    Ken Hurst

    Ken was a true old time American master. He taught himself to engrave using sharpened triangular files and a ball peen hammer. From that humble beginning, Ken progressed to the point that, at one time, he was master of a gun engraving shop employing several engravers. Several of his former...
  16. Roger Bleile

    Very inexpensive practice plates

    Fender washers are good practice plates because they are large with a small hole. My first practice plates were electrical junction box covers.
  17. Roger Bleile

    FEGA Convention this January..Buying a gun?

    It is my understanding that there are no guns for sale at the SHOT show. The makers and distributors are there to take orders.
  18. Roger Bleile

    Question: What is Blackleaf?

    "I have heard it called different names." Besides Blackleaf, it is often misnamed Arabesque. In German speaking countries it can be called Wetzlaub, Altdeutscher Laubgravur (old German leaf engraving) , or more simply Deutscher Laub. Belgians use "genre feuilles." I don't know what Italian...
  19. Roger Bleile

    Question: What is Blackleaf?

    http://www.engravingglossary.com/Hand%20Engraving%20Glossary%20B.htm
  20. Roger Bleile

    engraving pewter

    Engraving pewter is a case where graver lube is necessary. Without lube, a small deposit of pewter will stick to the heel of your graver.

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