I engraved this watch (dial and movement) as a present for my dad's birthday, and my husband made a big job to put it all together))
Beautiful design is made by Ken Hunt, I'm his huge fan! It was a big thing for me to make the shading...
I didn't made black paint on purpose, to show the light...
I'm practicing a bit different engraving style this time (it's the main plate of watch mechanism), and I'm a bit stuck... can't figure out what kind of graver geometry I should use to engrave the part which is below main level (marked with a pensil on the photo).
I have couple of idea, would...
My first practice on real watch movement, first time engraving brass and lots more of “first times” for me in this project)) it took me more than one week of work on the movement, brass with rhodium plating.
I was practicing those little swirls on bronze, it was not working at all, then...
Is anybody using a microblock XL from GRS? It is positined as a good compromise between microblock and standard ball vise.
Is it sturdy enough for engraving? Asking, because in my experience microblock was great for deep relief but for flat surfaces I had to put a lot of effort to keep my...
Struggling to get the shading right...
Design inspired by Sam Alfano))
I am a total newbie, took a beginners engraving class at GRS in St.Petersbourg in February 2018, but only bought my Gravermach and had it delivered to my country in April, started to engrave in May, 2018.
Last week I took...
Trying to make stippling for the first time today, but it looks too shallow to me...like sand blasting. Should it be like that or maybe I try to work deeper?
One more question, at which Gravermach spm preset do you usually do stippling? I'm on 33, it feels fine, but just in case)
Sorry for...
I'm a newbie, just couple of months practicing after a GRS class in April. I'm not really good in drawing, today I've been trying to get a "perfect" scroll to be used in further design, out of a dozen backbones I got couple of good ones.... I got them together on a tracing paper, would...