Marcus Hunt
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Exactly! I knew we were singing from the same hymn sheet really Brian. :biggrin:
Question: Help on rolex steel!
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Exactly! I knew we were singing from the same hymn sheet really Brian. :biggrin:
simone-cervellati
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I think we all are on the same page, and yes it is a semantics problem..
Practice plates should be proper: done as they were the finished piece, dated, signed, inked, waxed, and offered in sacrifice to the engraving gods
Finished pieces should be done using the confience you got from practice plates, to the best of your ability.
treating a finished piece like a practice plate for me does not entail doing careless work(we would not be in this line of business if we did careless work) it only helps me to avoid thinking the watch I'm engraving costs more than all the tools I have in the shop. (the care I put in is always the same amount)
that's the purpose of the mantra
convincing me that the piece I have in front of me is cheap, and release the tension I might have thinking about what would happen if I'd go wrong (If something does go wrong as it inevitably always does one day or the other, since I treat my practice plates like they were finished pieces, I know how to fix the mistake so that the costumer will never even know it was there)
and of course whenever I do a practice plate my mantra is "this is the real thing"
an yes, on my first tiffany bracelet my hand was shaking a LOT
on my first 2000 dollar silver plate my hand was shaking a BIT
and on this watch I did my research, got in the right mindset and my hand was NOT shaking
No pics of the piece(I was in too much of a hurry) but nobody has yet called me to tell me they want their money back
Thanks all for the great input, I is a very interesting conversation that sprung out of my question!
Simone
Practice plates should be proper: done as they were the finished piece, dated, signed, inked, waxed, and offered in sacrifice to the engraving gods
Finished pieces should be done using the confience you got from practice plates, to the best of your ability.
treating a finished piece like a practice plate for me does not entail doing careless work(we would not be in this line of business if we did careless work) it only helps me to avoid thinking the watch I'm engraving costs more than all the tools I have in the shop. (the care I put in is always the same amount)
that's the purpose of the mantra
convincing me that the piece I have in front of me is cheap, and release the tension I might have thinking about what would happen if I'd go wrong (If something does go wrong as it inevitably always does one day or the other, since I treat my practice plates like they were finished pieces, I know how to fix the mistake so that the costumer will never even know it was there)and of course whenever I do a practice plate my mantra is "this is the real thing"
an yes, on my first tiffany bracelet my hand was shaking a LOT
on my first 2000 dollar silver plate my hand was shaking a BIT
and on this watch I did my research, got in the right mindset and my hand was NOT shaking
No pics of the piece(I was in too much of a hurry) but nobody has yet called me to tell me they want their money back
Thanks all for the great input, I is a very interesting conversation that sprung out of my question!
Simone
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