MICHAEL
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I was practicing drawing the Nimschke 1865 Rolling Block pistol design and thought it would look good on the reciever of a 1887 Winchester shotgun. I guess it would have looked good if I could cut as well as I draw. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around. I had a hard time getting my #3 punch dot close without overlapping dots. Any tips on getting them to touch?
First of all, this was an unshootable reciever, so no real guns were harmed in the engraving of this piece.
I prepped the metal with a belt grinder. I'm still not there as I lost some edges and almost removed the serial number. But I'm still working on it. I did remove some very deep gouges. Someone had added some extra holes also.
I purposely left off a border. I tried to recut some lines and really made the first few worse but then started to make some better. I used a liner for the first time and mixed single point shading with the liner. I ended up going over the single point with a liner as it looked unbalanced.
I had to change the design as I drew / engraved it to make it fit the area. Any suggestions on making this a better design for future use would be much appreciated. I already started designing the other side of the reciever and thought about leaving the rest of the gun without engraving. I'm still thinking about this though, so ideas for other areas of the gun would be welcome to hear. I haven't seen an engraved 1887 Winchester so if someone can point me toward pic's of one I would appreaciate that also. Thanks:thumbs up:
First of all, this was an unshootable reciever, so no real guns were harmed in the engraving of this piece.
I prepped the metal with a belt grinder. I'm still not there as I lost some edges and almost removed the serial number. But I'm still working on it. I did remove some very deep gouges. Someone had added some extra holes also.
I purposely left off a border. I tried to recut some lines and really made the first few worse but then started to make some better. I used a liner for the first time and mixed single point shading with the liner. I ended up going over the single point with a liner as it looked unbalanced.
I had to change the design as I drew / engraved it to make it fit the area. Any suggestions on making this a better design for future use would be much appreciated. I already started designing the other side of the reciever and thought about leaving the rest of the gun without engraving. I'm still thinking about this though, so ideas for other areas of the gun would be welcome to hear. I haven't seen an engraved 1887 Winchester so if someone can point me toward pic's of one I would appreaciate that also. Thanks:thumbs up:
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