I would like to compliment Scott Pilkington for the beautiful article he wrote on Ron Smith. JJ.
Master Engraver Ron Smith
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DITTO!!
mdengraver
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Where is this article?
pilkguns
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
TOS
Here’s a pic when we visited you back in 2020
Here’s a pic when we visited you back in 2020
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pilkguns
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Thank you JJ.
it was definitely not an article I wanted to write.
it was definitely not an article I wanted to write.
pilkguns
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its in the FEGA magazine. I havent got mine yet.
Scott,
Thanks for the photo memory. Great times they were!
Thanks for the photo memory. Great times they were!
pilkguns
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Sam/TOS,
I met Ron and Liz at that first FEGA show at the El Rancho in 1985. I had a table beside them and we have been fast friends ever since. Many visits across the decades.
I also have a distinct memory that same trip of meeting you and Wilma out in the parking lot of the El Rancho as we were carrying things in. I of course recognized you from Roger Bleile's first book published in 1980, (that was probably before I officially met Ron and Liz some hours later). You were gracious and encouraging and honestly helpful to a new engraver then and always were through the years since. I wish that geography was a little more friendly to my travels that I could have made more visits to you over the years but you have certainly been a delight at every FEGA show since then. I can contrast that with few other names I met at that same first show who held leadership positions in the guild across the years that were not so welcoming to a beginning engraver but we will leave them nameless. It's been great organization of many great people and a lot of fine memories have been made and beautiful art created.
I met Ron and Liz at that first FEGA show at the El Rancho in 1985. I had a table beside them and we have been fast friends ever since. Many visits across the decades.
I also have a distinct memory that same trip of meeting you and Wilma out in the parking lot of the El Rancho as we were carrying things in. I of course recognized you from Roger Bleile's first book published in 1980, (that was probably before I officially met Ron and Liz some hours later). You were gracious and encouraging and honestly helpful to a new engraver then and always were through the years since. I wish that geography was a little more friendly to my travels that I could have made more visits to you over the years but you have certainly been a delight at every FEGA show since then. I can contrast that with few other names I met at that same first show who held leadership positions in the guild across the years that were not so welcoming to a beginning engraver but we will leave them nameless. It's been great organization of many great people and a lot of fine memories have been made and beautiful art created.
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