What’s on your bench?

[ByrnBucks]

Good evening to all,
Thought it might be nice to see some works in progress. It seems most “including myself” wait for their pieces to be complete before posting…. Well show and tell time for anyone mid process, please don’t be shy lets get some projects thrown out there just for fun.

I’ll start been busy with many lettering jobs so this has been on the back burner for a while but got a semi decent start on this knife.

Hope everyone is doing well and has a great week. BB

 

[EngraverHand]

In progress photos are great fun, also good for study and learning.. this watch is what I´m back at today. It´s been on my bench foreeeever. So many things I don't really like about it and I don't really want to finish it up, but someone very patient is waiting. He is fully aware that I only work on it between other jobs.. so I have not promised any delivery time, and he´ll get a good price because he´s a friend, which also is the only reason I will part with this watch, which was my first practice watch.. so it has engravings form different periods.. hopefully it´ll look OK at the end Anyway, in progress..

The gold letters are about 3.5 mm and the bezel engraving about 2 mm.

 

[papart1]

sweet

 

[Travis Fry]

Currently working on figuring out how to resize the drawing from Procreate in Affinity (just got it yesterday, still a lot to learn) so I can accurately print and transfer to the knife, which I finished a couple of weeks ago. Scales are 416 stainless. It'll be the first knife of my own making that I'll have engraved with anything other than borders, so I'm pretty excited about it.

 

[Leland Davis]

I have this Night Hawk 1911 the customer asked for a North American antlered game theme. Just getting started.

 

[Mike576]

Always nice to see some works in progress. Great work so far.

This is what I have been working on. Bit of scrimshaw on a tagua nut for practice. Tried using col.tm849 ivory substitute but wasn’t a fan of its ability to hold ink. The tagua is much better!

still a lot of work to go!

 

[ByrnBucks]

In progress photos are great fun, also good for study and learning.. this watch is what I´m back at today. It´s been on my bench foreeeever. So many things I don't really like about it and I don't really want to finish it up, but someone very patient is waiting. He is fully aware that I only work on it between other jobs.. so I have not promised any delivery time, and he´ll get a good price because he´s a friend, which also is the only reason I will part with this watch, which was my first practice watch.. so it has engravings form different periods.. hopefully it´ll look OK at the end Anyway, in progress..

The gold letters are about 3.5 mm and the bezel engraving about 2 mm. View attachment 52985

Love that border, clean background and nice shading on those leaves

 

[ByrnBucks]

Currently working on figuring out how to resize the drawing from Procreate in Affinity (just got it yesterday, still a lot to learn) so I can accurately print and transfer to the knife, which I finished a couple of weeks ago. Scales are 416 stainless. It'll be the first knife of my own making that I'll have engraved with anything other than borders, so I'm pretty excited about it.

Looks like quite A bit of work, Will be awesome to have knife you made start to finish. Hope all goes well

 

[ByrnBucks]

I have this Night Hawk 1911 the customer asked for a North American antlered game theme. Just getting started.

The man wants a deer, looks like he’ll be pretty happy before its all said and done

 

[ByrnBucks]

Always nice to see some works in progress. Great work so far.

This is what I have been working on. Bit of scrimshaw on a tagua nut for practice. Tried using col.tm849 ivory substitute but wasn’t a fan of its ability to hold ink. The tagua is much better!

still a lot of work to go!

Tagua nut uh, pretty cool canvas an excellent ram. looks great

 

[John B.]

I prefer the the ram on the ivory sub,
Great eye, face and horn shading.

 

[jswanswan]

In progress photos are great fun, also good for study and learning.. this watch is what I´m back at today. It´s been on my bench foreeeever. So many things I don't really like about it and I don't really want to finish it up, but someone very patient is waiting. He is fully aware that I only work on it between other jobs.. so I have not promised any delivery time, and he´ll get a good price because he´s a friend, which also is the only reason I will part with this watch, which was my first practice watch.. so it has engravings form different periods.. hopefully it´ll look OK at the end Anyway, in progress..

The gold letters are about 3.5 mm and the bezel engraving about 2 mm. View attachment 52985

I also avoid work I feel not entirely happy with. This looks lovely though, cut yourself some slack. Especially in the tiny scale! And just think how great it will feel to have it done........

 

[Sageoconnell]

Couple things I’ve been working on.

 

[Meshach]

Just finished up this pen a couple weeks ago and decided I needed a different clamping solution for the next one I have planned (had too much vibration so I made a system for my block and made threaded live centers instead of the cones iI was using) so I just got that done before the 4th and haven't had a chance to get started on the layout for the next, it is going to be interlocking basic scroll backbones in wire inlay, still need to clean up and scale the pattern.

 

[ByrnBucks]

Couple things I’ve been working on.

Sageoconnell, I really dig the way you fold the leaves between two backbones. Top left corner of the brass one very favorable to the eye.

 

[ByrnBucks]

Just finished up this pen a couple weeks ago and decided I needed a different clamping solution for the next one I have planned (had too much vibration so I made a system for my block and made threaded live centers instead of the cones iI was using) so I just got that done before the 4th and haven't had a chance to get started on the layout for the next, it is going to be interlocking basic scroll backbones in wire inlay, still need to clean up and scale the pattern.
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That looks like a different take on the standard scroll pattern. Like to see how that turns out and looks like a pretty solid fixture you’ve come up with. Have a good one

 

[Meshach]

That looks like a different take on the standard scroll pattern. Like to see how that turns out and looks like a pretty solid fixture you’ve come up with. Have a good one

Thank you, It's actually just two identical scrolls that wrap around the body of the pen with one rotated 180 and interlaced together, as for the rings, I have seen similar rings around single scrolls and thought they would tie the whole thing together well as I plan to use gold, silver, and copper wire for contrast between pieces.
I'm pretty eager to see how it turns out myself, although it's been on my back burner for over a year.. I'll try to be better about posting pictures though and make sure you get a chance to see it (=

 

[oniemarc]

Knife scales for a dutch knifemaker. Grade 5 titanium which is proving quite nasty, hahaha.
Almost done now...just need to shade these...phew

 

[Leland Davis]

A little more progress

 

[Sageoconnell]

Sageoconnell, I really dig the way you fold the leaves between two backbones. Top left corner of the brass one very favorable to the eye.

Thank you.