So I'm restarting this as I didn't do my due diligence on the photo I used to derive my template, while I did end up using a creative commons image at the time I didn't know that and Sam rightly came down on me.
So now that that's resolved and I have his blessing I'm going to put the stuff and...
After seeing a couple of the quick and dirty coin templates I ran out for learning a bit about engraving John messaged me and suggested I should consider knocking out a couple templates for firearms.
I've taken a bit of a shine to the idea and have ripped out a template for the slide of a Ruger...
So I'm still working on teaching myself engraving and using pennies as practice stuff. Since I realized that trying to design on the coin itself was frustrating the heck out of me I scanned a penny and made myself some MUCH scaled up template blanks with a very light grid background.
These were...
Discovered u/calebkraft's pile of practice coins on Reddit (ref: ) and thought, yeah I've got a bunch of pennies and that gives me some space constraints to work around and fiddle with. So I've been poking at them.
After making a couple of gravers out of broken m2 drills and reamers I decided...