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  1. SamW

    working while staying at home

    Like Mitch, no real change here. I once thought to become a hermit but decided I could not be that nice ALL the time. Marty, sunshine and snow...springtime in the Rockies! This is a Lefever project themed Sharptail Grouse. These three feathers are the Alula attached to the wing skeletal...
  2. SamW

    working while staying at home

    Very nice Adder...Stay well my friend!
  3. SamW

    Design suggestions?

    Maybe a few drops of blood coming off the thorns.
  4. SamW

    Shaping Gravers for special use?

    Jerry, those were mostly HSS gravers plus a square HSS and a stainless blank. All could be heated and bent and then re-heat treated. Plus shaping the points for proper use.
  5. SamW

    Shaping Gravers for special use?

    Here are tools I bent to get around the 6 uprights on the guitar tuner base. Some of the lines had to be scribed in. They are HHS tools heated, bent and re-hardened.
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    Shaping Gravers for special use?

    Call and ask.
  7. SamW

    trial and tribulations

    Rob, I had the same reaction when I first started studying scroll...'they didn't really touch'. But came to realize the need for a smooth continuous line for the backbone to make the scroll look right to the naked eye. Not to mention it made cutting the backbone doable. If you like open...
  8. SamW

    trial and tribulations

    The space between tendril/leaf and backbone is the width of a single cut. It is more a matter of consistency. With a good bit of extra time one could make them actually touch but I don't see that as needed. When I draw the scroll on the metal, they touch. When looked at with naked eye, the...
  9. SamW

    trial and tribulations

    This is what he means...
  10. SamW

    Note to owners of "American Engravers III"...

    Just looked through mine a week or so ago and no issues...yet!
  11. SamW

    trial and tribulations

    Ditto Leland's comments...much better backbone. Now work on the inside elements.
  12. SamW

    Critique Request Backbone

    Thanks for posting the barrel outline...now I understand your design.
  13. SamW

    Critique Request progress on first crack at gun engraving

    Much better...diffused lighting would make them really pop. Here is what I use, hanging below a 4 ft. light fixture...2 coat hangers held apart with wood dowels and covered with freezer paper. Hanging over my vise. Cheap but very effective.
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    Critique Request progress on first crack at gun engraving

    When posting photos to this site I resize to 6 inches largest dimension and a resolution of about 120 pixels per inch (150 in this case because it is narrow) which gives file sizes in a usable range of under 400kb when saved as a jpeg. The file size is variable in the PS Elements software...
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    Critique Request progress on first crack at gun engraving

    What camera and do you have an editing program such as Photoshop Elements?
  16. SamW

    Critique Request Backbone

    Those flow properly. I suggest you always draw patterns to fill a given area/shape such as a gun part or other item.
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    Critique Request Backbone

    Numbering the scrolls 1 through 6 from left to right...numbers 1, 4 and 6 come off their start points in the opposite flow that they should. Number 1 should come off like number 3 does, number 4 like number 2 (in other words flipped vertically).
  18. SamW

    slide

    When drawing on metal with a scribe keep this in mind. The metal needs to be polished to a well worn 600 grit w/d to remove any scratches/tool marks. If you do not polish this high you will have to scribe deeper and harder to be able to see it and correcting or removing will be difficult...
  19. SamW

    Pancho Villa

    I have never seen scroll done exactly like that...no idea who!
  20. SamW

    Fixturing tip

    I agree with all of the above. I have used wood dowels for years to good advantage.
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