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  1. AllenClapp

    Latest project

    I like the simple split-line border with inside features overlapping the inside half. It reduces background removal and adds an elegant touch at the same time.
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    FEGA Hand Engravers Manual 2025

    It is now available to anyone on the www.fega.com website.
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    Announcement: RIP Ron Smith

    An absolute treasure of a human being lost!
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    Practice plates

    They will cut plates to your specified sizes. Ask about their starting plate sizes and then work out a cutting design that will give you the number of plates of desired sizes without waste.
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    The Secret Meeting of Bulgarian Engravers 2025

    Were these raised dots in the background made by removing background metal around them or by inserting pins?
  6. AllenClapp

    2025 FEGA Hand Engraving Manual

    We spent a lot of time trying to find sources for learning to engrave with emphasis on drawing: schools, videos, books, castings, individual instructors, etc. We had three emails out to FEGA members for input. We did our best to make this the best resource book for engravers at all levels even...
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    2025 FEGA Hand Engraving Manual

    Next week is the annual Firearms Engravers Guild of America show and meeting in Las Vegas. See www.fega.com for details. The new 2025 FEGA Hand Engraving Manual will be debuting at a special show price [see the FEGA website after the show for ordering copies after the show]. Attached is the...
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    Question: Help Identify Artist LG

    Vaughn, your dad was a great help to aspiring engravers. Anne and I drove over to visit with him several times when we were down visiting with her parents in Tifton, GA in the 1990s. I loved looking over some of his design records and talking about some of the odd engraving projects that he had...
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    Help, please: Copper Inlaying techniques

    A good discussion of inlay is on YouTube.com. It is by Brian Powley and was made at one of Scott Pilkington's early Engrave-Ins. It may start at about 10 minutes into the video, but you can back it up to the start. You did not state the source of your copper. If you are trying to use strands of...
  10. AllenClapp

    What do I have? Hand piece

    It may be an early version of the GRS 901 handpiece that worked with the GraverMax and I think the GraverMate. It has a GRS Glensteel graver held in a GRS graver collet in the unit. I checked my notebook from my 1994 GRS class. One handout had a drawing (not photo) of handpiece parts that looked...
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    Making medal Dies (to strike medals)

    Don't forget to consider both the metallurgy and the appropriate hardening procedures. Recent adventures by folks trying to make beading tools suitable for long use on hard firearms metals and to reproduce the old NgraveR firearms stamps and similar stamps often used on firearms in the last few...
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    Microscope/camera use for recording or displaying engraving techniques to students

    We are entering the final review and proofreading phase for the 2025 FEGA Hand Engraving Handbook. We still have a little time to add a few last-minute additions in the works, so you still have time for ingraving instructors who use cameras to teach to tell us what works for you, as well as what...
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    Microscope/camera use for recording or displaying engraving techniques to students

    I am the editor for the about-to-be finished 2025 FEGA Hand Engraving Manual. We see an increasing need for information about the use of cameras to take still shots and live video for live presentations and for preparing DVD's on engraving. We need more information on two things: less expensive...
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    Trinocular scope recommendations?

    Mitch, the reason that I mentioned using a GoPro camera is several fold. It has an extra screw-on closeup lens if desired. You can record in full view and select the format later or you can select first and record the final format that you want to fit the intended screen size. It has great sound...
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    Trinocular scope recommendations?

    Mitch, Tira Mitchell has one on her engraver.com website. No price shown. It requires a call to discuss configuration. She also shows a camera to mate with it. GRS only has a separate camera mount for their scopes. Depending upon what you want to do, using a side mount for a cell phone or GoPro...
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    Advice For Achieving Finish on Watch

    Looking closely at this photo, the dimple placement is random enough that it looks like it may have been made with a stippling technique. However, to me, it looks like it was NOT made with a sharp stippling tool. It looks like the dimples were made with a stippling punch that has a rounded end...
  17. AllenClapp

    Which transparency film should I get?

    If alignment is the issue, it is easy to solve. Print the outline of the metal upon which you want to place the design along with the design placed appropriately within it. Turn the print over toner side down on a light table, or hold it up on a window, and trace over the outline on the back of...
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    I will take the pistol jig. Allen Clapp, 3206 Queens Road, Raleigh NC 27612-6233 cell: 919.247.4915

    I will take the pistol jig. Allen Clapp, 3206 Queens Road, Raleigh NC 27612-6233 cell: 919.247.4915
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    Work Bench Drill Press Table

    A complete breakdown of the parts of a current Grizzly Shop Fox bench drill press will be in the 2025 FEGA Hand Engraving Handbook. The old FEGA How-To Handbook, from which the new handbook was developed, was 98 pages. So far, the 2025 handbook is well over 300 pages and climbing. It has been...
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    Question: A question for the experts.

    Mike Dubber has some videos on YouTube showing how he holds and engraves large platters.

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