Some Carving

[Phil Coggan]

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[Phil Coggan]

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[Andrew Biggs]

Hi phil

Fantastic work as usual. The sculpture work is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could you please give us a brief description of how you go about your sculpting.

Do you cut/chisel your beveled edges?
Use punches?
Combination of the both?
How do you get that really smooth finish to the metal?

OK, OK, it may take a book......... but you know what I mean

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Tira]

Phil, The carving looks great! I'm with Andrew - how do you go about doing this?

 

[fegarex]

WOW...
Really nice Phil!

 

[BrianPowley]

Fantastic work,Phil.
Thanks for the inspiration.
I love how some of the leaf elements are bi-directional within the same scroll.
That's some real artistic genius....

 

[Mike Cirelli]

Looks beautiful Phil. Is a flat graver the graver of choice when your sculpting like that?

 

[Phil Coggan]

I use various shaped chisels, the main ones I suppose are flat, sometimes they're changed every few seconds, scrapers and burnishers are used for the smooth surface. Punches are only used to matt the background.

Phil

 

[Ken Hurst]

Ahhhh, Mr. Phil. I just can't seem to find the right words to describe the quality of your work and my admiration of your seemingly endless skills ! Did you start engraving about 100 years ago to develop this level of skill ? Ken

 

[Mike Bissell]

Phil - That's very nice work, truly inspiring.

Thanks for sharing
Mike

 

[Dulltool]

Double WOW...

 

[Steve Adams]

I find this sculpted engraving fascinating, especially as a heavy handed engraver. The material removed must be substantial. Beautiful work!

 

[Jordi]

Amazing work, Phil !
Sorry for my translation problems: what do you mean by 'flat' chisels? Is it possible to see a picture or drawing of them? Thanks.

 

[joseph engraver]

Phil, I don't know what to say: Beautiful is not enough.

 

[Phil Coggan]

Jordi, this type of flat chisel.
http://www.hswalsh.com/itemdetail.aspx?i=TG661&c=264&oa=Number&ov=12

 

[Lee]

Phil,

Thanks for showing your work. Wonderfully done. It's so interesting to look at the difference in interpretation by the world's best. Griffnee, Lovenberg, yourself, Churchill, just to name a few. I suspect the tools and techniques are quite similar but the way each interprets their vision is often vastly different.

 

[tldcowboygear]

Phil,

To quote one of my grandsons' favorite movies "that'll do pig"

DC

ps: Ihope that everyone remembers the movie, Babe

 

[Christopher Malouf]

I think sculptured scrollwork is the ultimate.

The article in the latest FEGA newsletter that Weldon wrote is excellent. Gives great insight into how this is done.

 

[monk]

phil: some engravers are concerned that others may copy their work and pass it off as their own. i think your work would be the last to ever be hijacked by anybody. when i upload to the forum i always make backups and keep on a jump drive, i've nearly gone blind looking at this marvellous work on my jumper.

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hey Chris

If you thought Weldon's first article was good..............wait till you see the next one!!!

Cheers
Andrew