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  1. KevinCunningham

    Critique request Celtic High Cross

    Circles I use a slightly dulled scribe and a plastic circle template. For the edges I have an ancient starrett set of dividers and one leg is a hair longer than the other- I try to drag that one around the outside. It’s not an exact science, but it works better than eyeballing the line. Those...
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    flat gravers

    Very cool! Now I won’t be able to read your posts without hearing your drawl
  3. KevinCunningham

    Critique request Celtic High Cross

    Since you asked for critique and it’s what I would consider the greatest form of love from an artist to an artist: I like the design and layout. The stipple texture is nice too. I agree that the borders look sloppy along with the squareness of the whole piece in general. It looks a little...
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    Critique Request Not quite bulino I think?

    Thanks so much Marcus! I’m still struggling with getting a full range of value. I’ve been doing stuff like this for 25 years tattoing so there’s some crossover in making marks and building up values but obviously it’s apples and oranges. So far as an engraver I’ve been making drawings to...
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    Critique Request Not quite bulino I think?

    Trying to post a good pic is almost as hard at taking one!
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    Critique Request Not quite bulino I think?

    Todays work- factory commission, woman supplied reference art for lion head on her trap shotgun. It’s supposed to sorta have a little ink spatter effect.
  7. KevinCunningham

    Gustavo Aragao work/knives

    I’ve loved Mucha’s work since I was a kid! Is that “spring”?
  8. KevinCunningham

    Embossing

    Do you often use this in your engraving? I primarily cut firearms so moving metal around some with a punch in combination with cutting is totally possible but I don’t see myself ever doing heavy repoussé or sinking. I would like to get into some more sculpted raised inlay though.
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    Venting about carbide order- learning the hard way that 3/32” comes 20% oversize. So much grinding…

    Ha! Yep. Reminds me of what my grandmother called “the lazy man’s load” when you struggle instead of just taking two trips. In my baby engraving career I’ve found some success and continued good paying work cutting some pretty hard & tough guns. I assume those with more skill and experience...
  10. KevinCunningham

    Alternative to Lindsay Vise?

    Deviations from the plans when I built it: -base was a larger flat 3/16” plate. With decent width it’s proved very stable. -three ‘ears’ on flat disc are tapped for screws, I only had longer screws and they would catch my clothes while spinning. I pulled them with plans to shorten them or use...
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    Alternative to Lindsay Vise?

  12. KevinCunningham

    Alternative to Lindsay Vise?

    Here’s what I did- works amazing
  13. KevinCunningham

    Hand Engraving Makes Brain Stronger

    I’ve only been at this “professionally” for about a year. I think as my face gets more wrinkly with age the lines have simply been moving as my brain smooths out. It’d be nice if I could reverse the process some!
  14. KevinCunningham

    Dumbest engraving request you’ve ever gotten?

    Ha! I was going to say “what it wouldn’t fit in your vice” but somebody beat me to it. In this case stamps are the answer not only for ease of application but because the work hardened impression can be seen with acid even if thieves sand it off. This technique has been used by state police...
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    Venting about carbide order- learning the hard way that 3/32” comes 20% oversize. So much grinding…

    I don’t know. They made me feel like I called home depot and asked why my 2x4s were neither 2” nor 4”- it’s the industry standard duh. I’ve been online looking and I found references to people looking for non chinese “finish ground” carbide blanks as opposed to how it’s normally sold “carbide...
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    Venting about carbide order- learning the hard way that 3/32” comes 20% oversize. So much grinding…

    Yeah I sharpened and cut with a dozen of them today. It took an extra hour to get them ground but they cut fine. What did you order and what did you get? How do you use it?
  17. KevinCunningham

    Ron Smith's Advanced Drawing of Scrolls 3rd Edition Soon Available

    I have my copy but this is good news- that book is really a treasure. Thanks for doing this for the community
  18. KevinCunningham

    Venting about carbide order- learning the hard way that 3/32” comes 20% oversize. So much grinding…

    Howdy I was referred to Centennial carbide and specifically their ultra-grain blanks by another engraver. He let me try his setup which worked great- he buys their 1/16” round stock and uses the GRS collet system so once a graver is locked into a collet it can be indexed repeatably for...
  19. KevinCunningham

    Krieghoff Factory Tour

    From what I heard through the grapevine they give their guns to their engravers unhardened? Also that they won’t honor warranties on privately engraved guns, which are not fun to cut anyway? Makes sense they’d want to protect the (large!!) $ markup and prestige of engraved kreighoffs. I’ve seen...
  20. KevinCunningham

    Question: Narrative engraving

    I hate Cy Twombly’s art- giant crayon scribbles and messy writing supposedly referencing classical themes. His ‘paintings’ sell for millions. I do very much enjoy Marcel Duchamp though but his conceptual art and readymades are the kind of statement that can only be made once before losing their...

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