a plan
Ok, after receiving great advice from the good folks on this list, and reviewing various tutorials, I've decided on the following tentative approach:
1. Buy starter tools: #36 flat/#0 onglette/#0 square gravers, chisel handle, and small hammer.
2. Find a script font on the internet that I like and download it.
3. Use computer graphics software to play with letters til I get the size and layout that I want.
4. Print and transfer to a practice plate. Mount plate on weighted block of wood.
5. Practice engraving the letters using the following approach:
- trace lines using square graver.
- cut swallowtail profile in single lines using onglette.
- cut out area between double lines using flat graver and undercut with onglette.
- anneal, draw, and hammer in copper wire, then sand and polish.
6. Once I get the results I want on the practice plate, sand off the pantograph letters on my grip cap, engrave per step 5 above, inlay with 24K gold, and rust blue.
Am I on track? Anyone have any additional advice before I start slinging steel?
Ok, after receiving great advice from the good folks on this list, and reviewing various tutorials, I've decided on the following tentative approach:
1. Buy starter tools: #36 flat/#0 onglette/#0 square gravers, chisel handle, and small hammer.
2. Find a script font on the internet that I like and download it.
3. Use computer graphics software to play with letters til I get the size and layout that I want.
4. Print and transfer to a practice plate. Mount plate on weighted block of wood.
5. Practice engraving the letters using the following approach:
- trace lines using square graver.
- cut swallowtail profile in single lines using onglette.
- cut out area between double lines using flat graver and undercut with onglette.
- anneal, draw, and hammer in copper wire, then sand and polish.
6. Once I get the results I want on the practice plate, sand off the pantograph letters on my grip cap, engrave per step 5 above, inlay with 24K gold, and rust blue.
Am I on track? Anyone have any additional advice before I start slinging steel?