Roger Bleile
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
For a moment I thought of calling the flair cut/transition scroll style the "dead" C scrolls but...nah, I'll stick with Ron's "flair cut" style.
Anyway in the Transition Cut Tutorial thread, Ed Delorge mentioned that he had tried cutting the flair with a 120 and I wanted to try it myself. The 120 is a little less forgiving of the lean of the tool but since it can cut wider more easily I think it may be the way to go.
In the pictures below, I cut everything with a 120 carbide with a 45 degree face and 15 degree heel except for the uprights in the lettering. I continued to use my Gravermeister but for much of the cutting I tried the blistering speed of 1200 strokes per minute!
As you look at my test plate keep in mind that this exercise was more like sketching with a graver. The only things I drew on the plate was the main spiral and I scribed the lines for the square around the central scroll. Everything else I just eyeballed and tried a variety of cuts going as fast as I could work.
Far left: Overall plate with some lettering I did without a layout. Don't try lettering without a layout unless you are Mike Duebber or someone else who has done an awful lot of it (I'm not one of those guys).
Next right: The main scroll and various borders I made up as I went along. I played around with different flourishes on each inside leaf with more or less success.
Third from left: The arrow points to an error I made due to inexperience with the 120 on this style. This happened when I was cutting the back cut (leaning the graver to the right) and didn't roll the graver back upright soon enough. Ouch!!! A lesson learned.
Far right: I really don't like the ugly "nose" I put on this leaf.
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Anyway in the Transition Cut Tutorial thread, Ed Delorge mentioned that he had tried cutting the flair with a 120 and I wanted to try it myself. The 120 is a little less forgiving of the lean of the tool but since it can cut wider more easily I think it may be the way to go.
In the pictures below, I cut everything with a 120 carbide with a 45 degree face and 15 degree heel except for the uprights in the lettering. I continued to use my Gravermeister but for much of the cutting I tried the blistering speed of 1200 strokes per minute!
As you look at my test plate keep in mind that this exercise was more like sketching with a graver. The only things I drew on the plate was the main spiral and I scribed the lines for the square around the central scroll. Everything else I just eyeballed and tried a variety of cuts going as fast as I could work.
Far left: Overall plate with some lettering I did without a layout. Don't try lettering without a layout unless you are Mike Duebber or someone else who has done an awful lot of it (I'm not one of those guys).
Next right: The main scroll and various borders I made up as I went along. I played around with different flourishes on each inside leaf with more or less success.
Third from left: The arrow points to an error I made due to inexperience with the 120 on this style. This happened when I was cutting the back cut (leaning the graver to the right) and didn't roll the graver back upright soon enough. Ouch!!! A lesson learned.
Far right: I really don't like the ugly "nose" I put on this leaf.
continued on post #2
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