"Beneath the Blood Moon" Pendant

[tsterling]

I've been away from engraving for a few weeks, and I decided I needed to practice up a bit before starting on a knife commission. This is an extension of a knife design I intend to engrave in a few weeks, and I thought it would make both a nice pendant, and be a good practice piece to get my hand back into the swing of things. I decided the moon behind the owl's face would look good in copper and make a nice contrast to the grey of the titanium pendant. The copper is my first overlay, and I (mostly) used Sam Alfano's overlay technique from the iGraver tips archive: http://www.igraver.com/gold_overlay/index.shtml

Thanks, Sam, for the tip! Incidentally, you can see an ad nauseum description of my overlay attempt here: http://sterlingsculptures.com/wp/?p=3180


Above is the finished pendant, in 1/8 inch thick Grade 2 titanium, copper, and 24 karat gold, with silver hardware. The pendant is about 2 1/4 inches tall (about 57 mm).

Thanks for looking!

Tom

 

[RDP]

Every time you engrave something, I learn a lot from you, congratulations on your magnificent work Tom, and thank you for all your tutorials, just keep them coming, I will never get enough of them,

Richard.

 

[don hicks]

Thanks for posting this . I checked your description on your web site, no nausea at all, great clear tutorial.
Cheers
Don
ps Can't wait to see the finished knife.

 

[Silberschweif]

very nice
I added your blog to my fav.

I like your obsidian knives
chris

 

[sam]

Very nicely done!

 

[pedroito]

Thanks for sharing, great job Tom!

 

[tsterling]

Hi Folks,

Thanks so much for the great feedback! You're the people who keep me going, and I appreciate your postings very much.

Tom

 

[LVVP]

Cool! Thank you for sharing