I have one of the original 1000 Golden boy 22lr lever guns when production was still in Brooklyn NY. Does any one know something these rifles? I know the engravers who engraved all the rest of the hand engraved ones in my collection, I would really like to know who the engraver was on this one...
These Winchesters were all done for me over the last 20 years. I think all engravers are FEGA members. Completion dates were 2003, 2008, 2013 & 2018
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Being a hobby engraver and retired at that I just can't see the expense of his palm engraver setup. I guess when it arrives I'll give it a road test. In the mean time has anyone else used one of these gravers?
Well I spent the day on this image.
As an analog guy living an digital world, I learned one good thing and a couple of not so good things.
1G) If your printer isn't capable of reversing the image, you can copy the image onto a sheet of transparency film. This transparency can be flipped over...
Most of my plates are steel, I have done some in brass and one in copper. Man, I really dont like copper. What do some of you more experienced engravers think?