Engraving needs a show: (Masters of Metal!)

[griff silver]

There seem to be trend in art specific shows example: Orange County Coppers, Ace of Cakes, Monster Garage. and my favorite Mami Ink. ( and i dont even have tattoo.) These show seem to depict the drama of the process rather than the boring actuall process. I can see this working in in the gun engraving markets with some of you guys that are the elite. I can tell that the personalities are diverse, and there is no shortage of talent. Engravers seem to have the same demograpics: people who do; people that want to do; people who know they cant do but want to buy; people who cant afford to buy but want to dream. This is a common tread in all these markets. This industry has gatherings and contest just as the others. If I was a "master" I would get with my buddie masters and get two custom western revolvers with hex barells donated by what ever manufacturer would play ball. Each of the master buddies would do one cylnder and one flat side of the barrel. I would see to it that these guns are at every gun show and engraving show posible, then I would sell raffle tickets for them at all the shows and use that money to fund a pilot show shot by proffesionals( about the art not an instructional video[then I would market the video to TLC,dicovery or some of the other ones untill someone gave it a shot. Once they bit and I think they would. Gun companyies, the Nra and countless other related market demographics would advertise. It might spark a big craze in the engraving world school attendence could shoot sky high, gun sales could go up, hand engraving jobs for gun manufacurers could open up, The 5 day wait system would get cloged, the Nra could rally more support in "protecting our rights, It could be great! perhaps a far fetched Idea 6 years a go when gun control was the hot topic funny how they shut in times of war. Just a though Ive been told im nuts...Griff DONT THINK IT WOULD WORK WITH SPURS

 

[Weldon47]

Interesting idea, Griff! Someone, somewhere that reads this forum is bound to have contacts in the TV/film industry. The concept sure sounds a lot more interesting to me than some of the TV currently available.

Weldon

 

[Ray Cover]

It is not a bad idea per se. The only drawback I can see is getting a mostly liberal mostly anti gun media outlet to pick it up.

Yes I know that is a large biased generalization on my part. However, it is trued that most of the powers that control the television and cable media do not want to do anything to glamorize firearms as anythign but killing tools. You might have to target the hunting/outdoor related cable program producers to get it done.

Actually a better idea might be to have an engrave off like some fo the custom bike shows have build offs. Make it a competition between two or three engravers each on their own project. I think the final products would turn out better than having two or three guys try to agree on design and execute it to all match what the other two had done.

my 2 cents,

Ray

 

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Griff,

Maybe they could focus on people preparing for a certain event. Much like the annual TCAA show. Might be kinda cool to see how much planning and work are put into a such a project over a years time.

QUICK!.....Someone call TLC, SpikeTV, or Discovery.