Color engraving and repouuse

[Dave London]

Tim Herman gave me the idea to try this, I still need lots of practice but fun anyway. Frog made from copper sheet. Not quite done yet though. Dave

 

[Dave London]

Duh might help to add photo

 

[Ranchman]

That's really neat. Can you do a close up of the frog?

 

[jimzim75]

Nice looking Tsubo. I like the bamboo. Should be interesting to see how the frog comes out.
Ya know the something eerie about the idea of getting killed with sword with a frog on it.
Talk to ya later,
Jim

 

[Dave London]

Ranchman
Frog attachment, needs some texture an patina

 

[Tim Herman]

Dave, thats pretty cool! Nice work.

 

[Dave London]

Hi Jim
Maybe poison sword frog , Thanks Tim I will post the finished version. Dave

 

[Ranchman]

Very nice. I couldn't figure out what you had made until Jim said nice tsubo. Now I just realized how small that frog is. Do you make your own swords?
I'm in Berthoud CO. Are you east or west slope?

Jeff

 

[Dave London]

Hi Jeff
yea the frog is about 1"longX5/8"wide. about 3/8"high I live in Colorado Springs

 

[jimzim75]

Hi Dave,
I thought this might be a good texture for the frog.
http://www.rieo.net/amph/frog/tuti.htm
This one sort of looks like your copper frog also. The site has a lot of good reference pictures.
Jim

 

[Dave London]

Thanks Jim
Cool photos

 

[Ranchman]

Dave please post a pic when your finished. I'd really like to see it.
I'm way north close to Ft Collins.

 

[Dave London]

Well I finally finished the practice tsuba moved some things around and added some friends for the frog.Dave

 

[Ron Smith]

How cool is that?? Bravo!!

Ron S

 

[Ranchman]

Very nice and very unique. Thanks for showing it.

 

[Dave London]

Thanks Ron and Jeff