Thanks for the feedback, Monk and tdelewis. I'm going to look at more scroll work to see where I can improve. I suppose I should study and draw more, then try again!
I was doing practice with laser jet transfer and engraving. The image is from one of Alan Revere's books if I remember right. The first photo is bare, the second with paint, and the third is the image I used. I sized down the image to one inch in Adobe Illustrator and did an acetone transfer...
I have another good one for you: A kid at work (19 years old or so) asked me if I thought he could last 30 seconds in the ring against a semi-pro boxer. I told him I'd give him 10 seconds at most. He didn't think I was giving him enough credit, but I told him he didn't know just how good a...
I have tried my hand for at least several hundred hours at engraving now, but my main thing has been jewelry and jewelry repair. I can say that if you are asking this question, you must've not tried your hand at it long enough to know the difference between a 1k and 10k engraving. Even with...
I wish I was this good at flare cutting. I've been trying to practice much more. I am still a novice, but this piece is definitely something I would be satisfied with buying if I were the customer.
This isn't any sort of request per se; I just wanted to post something again. However, feel free to post your opinions on this work, as I appreciate even scathing comments. We don't know what we don't know, right?
So I've never engraved stainless steel before, and decided to try it on a very...
I wouldn't say I'm new to engraving, but I haven't really put in a lot of hours into it. One thing that helped me immensely with graver coordination was doing straight lines and circles on practice plates until well after I got tired of them!
I did this about a year ago. I used a Gravermax G8 with 120 degree graver. The image was printed off a laser jet printer and transferred with acetone. I'm still trying to get good at doing this, as it doesn't produce optimal results; I get too much image bleeding in some places. The...
Disclaimer before I start: I got my engraving setup to augment my jewelry some time ago (around 2014) and it's done well for that purpose. I used a gravermax G8 here, with 901 handpiece. That being said, I figured I'd start trying to do real engraving eventually, so here I am. I'm just...