I'll be the first to admit that I did. I couldn't wait to engrave a gun, and my first efforts were very poor, although customers were happy with them.
Looking at Bram Ramon's recent post of the beautiful drawings and careful thought and design process done BEFORE engraving inspired me to ask the question if newbie engravers take the leap too quickly.
There are 2 schools of though I guess. One being "hey, it's my gun and I'm going to engrave it and I don't care if anyone likes it." And another being "Dang, you just turned a $1000 gun into a $200 gun with poor engraving."
I advise my students to take it slowly until they can enhance a guns value as opposed to devaluing them. What do you guys think?
Looking at Bram Ramon's recent post of the beautiful drawings and careful thought and design process done BEFORE engraving inspired me to ask the question if newbie engravers take the leap too quickly.
There are 2 schools of though I guess. One being "hey, it's my gun and I'm going to engrave it and I don't care if anyone likes it." And another being "Dang, you just turned a $1000 gun into a $200 gun with poor engraving."
I advise my students to take it slowly until they can enhance a guns value as opposed to devaluing them. What do you guys think?