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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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...
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...