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    Vintage label for a gun case

    I've always be fond of the kind of labels you can see in the web site Sheaf Ephemera : http://www.sheaff-ephemera.com/list/steel-engraving/ Beautiful lettering with some ornaments around , I spent hours studying similar lettering you can find in SANBORN maps at the end of 19th century ...
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    engraving Damascus pattern

    Bonjour à tous, hi dear engravers:) The early barrels were made using thin layers of iron wrapped around a mandrel and then forged. Here is a video of Belgian blacksmiths forging Damascus barrels near Liège around 1920. Later the barrel were made out of plain steel and the bore was machined...
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    Restoring, Engraving and Color Case Hardening a pin fire revolver

    Hi every body:) Here’s a project I’ve been working on during the whole December , while staying at home due to the pandemic. I had to restore a pair of guns for my collection : a small garden carbine 9mm smooth bore from 1900 And a pin fire revolver , 12mm calibre, a Triple Action Lepage et...
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    Exemple of old lettering

    Isn't that beautifully engraved ? https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/confederate-foot-officers-sword-by-dufiho-new-orleans-presented-to-col-joseph-solomon-179068
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    Of Camera Lucida and engraving

    Hi everybody:tiphat: A few years ago, my friend Salvi Carracuel , a Spanish engraver who lives in Malaga (Spain) made me a gift : a Neolucida, sort of camera lucida used by artists for drawing after a model. It’s not easy to use it directly for engraving with a burin instead drawing with...
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    Restoration of an old Boutet's flintlock pistol

    Hello everybody, We have been staying at home for two months, so I had a lot of extra time and head a project of restoration of 3 old French pistols from Napoleon Bonaparte’s era. I’ve found these pistols many years ago , on a flea market that we have every Sunday in the small villages here in...
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    Help for identifying a seal

    Hello everybody, A friend of mine has just found this old seal on his his family’s house . He ask me what are the letters engraved on the seal. The photo is mirrored to see what would appear on the wax. I read L for the first one; can anyody help me for the second one please? Merci ,thank...
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    Abuelo Angel's revolver

    Good evening everyone I’ll show you a few steps in the restoration of an old pistol that my grandfather Angel gave me when I was 14 years old. This gun didn’t have the proper hammer and therefore couldn’t not fire, I think this was the reason why my grandfather offered this gun to his young...
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    Firearms Engraving in 19th century America by R.L. Wilson

    I ‘m an avid reader of R.L Wilson , his book ‘colt an American Legend’ is one of my favourites and is always in my night table. Here’s another Wilson’s interesting article : Firearms engraving in nineteenth century America...
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    metal chequering

    I had a request for chequering a hammer by a friend armourer . He was restoring a German shotgun from the early 20th century with a broken spur on one hammer, and he welded a new one. The original left hammer had small squares 0,4mm large. I do have two liners with 6 and 10 lines that are...

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