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  1. AllenClapp

    graver geometry calculator

    I tried to find both of them to see why my calcs differ slightly from theirs, but could not do so. It may well be that they assumed some nonzeropost angle for the initial shaping of the sides before heels. With the advent of preshaped gravers, my calcs assume that the graver blank is dead level...
  2. AllenClapp

    graver geometry calculator

    Years ago, I found the Ritter Henley calculations and could not replicate them. I believe that there is a slight error somewhere. I could not get a response from them, but could not at the time. The error seems to be not enough to matter much, but not quite correct either. Attached is an...
  3. AllenClapp

    Critique Request My Hand-Engraved Jewelry – M.Fatehi

    I like the work and have no critique of the designs as such, but I do have a caution related to how the execution of the designs relates to wearing of surfaces over time. I notice that you have a lot of crosshatching in your shading. For my artistic taste, it is a little too much crosshatching...
  4. AllenClapp

    Free Pattern Book

    Nice. Some of these would work well as, or inspiration for, flare-cut designs.
  5. AllenClapp

    THERE was GREAT

    At Arcadia, Missouri. It is held in the gymnasium and other spaces at the Arcadia Academy, a former girls school and now a bed and breakfast/wedding venue. It is a few blocks from Ray Cover's School of Fine Art Engraving which hosted a couple of breakout classes this year. The host venue has a...
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    THERE was GREAT

    It was a great chance to greet old friends and meet new ones. The varied mix of presenters and their topics worked, as evidenced by the interest of the attendees. Even if you thought you knew all you needed to know about a subject being presented, there was always a game-changing moment with a...
  7. AllenClapp

    Help, please: “Bulino Plate Casting“ by Ray Cover

    I think that Ray had a couple left at the end of the show yesterday. He has a private class this week and will be getting to emails soon.
  8. AllenClapp

    Help, please: “Bulino Plate Casting“ by Ray Cover

    Ray should have them. He is getting ready for The Hand Engraving Retreat and Expo this weekend, so he may have limited time on his email this week.
  9. 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.
  10. AllenClapp

    FEGA Hand Engravers Manual 2025

    It is now available to anyone on the www.fega.com website.
  11. AllenClapp

    Announcement: RIP Ron Smith

    An absolute treasure of a human being lost!
  12. AllenClapp

    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.
  13. AllenClapp

    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?
  14. 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...
  15. AllenClapp

    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...
  16. AllenClapp

    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...
  17. AllenClapp

    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...
  18. 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...
  19. AllenClapp

    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...
  20. AllenClapp

    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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