Announcement: Engraving Glossary Now on Line

[Roger Bleile]

After months of combing through over forty books (in four languages) on engraving and assembling photo illustrations, Roger Bleile's International, Illustrated Glossary of Hand-Engraving Terminology is now on line. Over 370 definitions and over 400 illustrations are available to engravers, collectors and writers at http://www.engravingglossary.com/.

Steve Lindsay Engraving and Tools sponsor the glossary site but the definitions include tools and accessories of every manufacture and type. I want to take this opportunity to thank Steve for his sponsorship and assistance with the site and providing some of the illustrations from his work. I also want to thank Steve’s daughter, Kaitlin for loading the definitions and photos into the site.

Though the glossary is a large body of work (22,000+ words) I expect to add a few more definitions in the future. I also plan to add additional illustrations and will be seeking out active engravers to provide pictures of their work for additional examples.

Now before you hop over to the glossary I have started another thread with a 20 question quiz to test your engraver’s vocabulary. The quiz is just for fun so take the quiz then go to the glossary and see how you did.

I hope you enjoy what we put together,

CRB

 

[Weldon47]

Roger,

My hat is off to you...what an awesome work you have accomplished! Excellent, simply excellent!! Can't wait to see it in print(?)

Weldon

 

[Steve223]

Wow Roger That is very cool and i can only imagine the work you put into it....Thank you! This is a great resorce

 

[Sam]

A most excellent resource and very well done, Roger.
Long live the art!

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Roger, that is a impressive job you did.

Thank I have ad it to my internet favourites so I can come back later instead of trying to read it all in one time.

arnaud

 

[Roger Keagle]

Roger...

This glossery of your really brings it home for me....answers all kinds of questions I have...just spent better than an hour on your site and my head is swimming ! How can I ever thank you ! Great work my friend !

 

[bronc]

Roger,
Your glossary is incredible.I can't begin to imagine how much time and effort it must have taken you to do this. Thanks you so much. It is something I will go look at often.

Stewart

 

[Roger Bleile]

Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback. While collectors and writers will no doubt find the glossary useful, it was written with my fellow engravers in mind.

Weldon, I do intend to bring the glossary to print as part of a larger engraver's reference work. Before I do I will be seeking active engravers to provide reference pictures of their work to suplement, or in some cases, replace some of the pictures on the web site.

CRB

 

[Les Riddell]

thank you roger this is a most welcome addition to my reference library

 

[Mario Sarto]

Hello Roger,
thank you for the great work! Now it will be a lot easier to understand, when you guys talk about something.

BTW i note there are a lot of Italian and German terms in it - that's cool!
And one of the best thing i found as yet is "BIGGS OCEANIA SCROLL" - that is a good sign, because it shows, what i always thought: history (e.g. engraving-history) must not be carved in stone. It is alive and the web is a good place to keep it alive. BRAVO!
Mario

 

[Kevin P.]

Roger, I've only had time to briefly dip into the glossary. You'll go down in history if you haven't already for previous work.

The past two weeks I was wondering about a glossary just for scrolls. I've been looking through Ron S's three books and he has some terms that are probably unique to him. I was thinking more terms would be helpful in order to have a clearer discussion about scroll work. That may be already in your work.
You're doing us all a service, especially us beginners.
Kevin P.

 

[ngraver98]

ur latest endeavor

Hi Roger . . . . thanks for including our tools and kind comments. Give my regards to Carl.

Ray P.