its funny how we find things that work. i like so many started with James Meeks book and started with Chinese white. i still use it a lot, i just use a thin layer to cut the shine off and draw with a .03 hard pencil. when i transfer a cut i use Sams transfer wax. i caught something from Roger...
thank you for all that insight that's a lot. my background is i started life at gunsmithing school but also come from a long line of railroaders so that is where i spent 48 years making line A meet line B at the exact spot it needed to be. Some where in there i became interested in photograph...
i have a lewis model to restore. just thinking of patterns. that was fun to cut but thinking light english scroll and a some hunting dogs. i have found nothing that shows lewis models all decked out.
i made it, covered in asphaltum then scratched in her image etched, then recovered the plate in select areas and re treated until i got the different levels in her face and surrounding areas. it was a fun project, hours wise 15 or so most of the time was waiting for the resist to dry. i then...
i have dies and have loaded a couple of boxes. i haven't shot it much. like the rest of the gun the barrel was pretty pitted. it shot better than i thought. of course i will take credit for that for my reloads. i have several boxes of Old Dominion that i picked up somewhere but i haven't shot...