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[engraverjay2]

Thanks everyone for the moral support and kind comments. These are the finished pics. Enjoy...

Any question or comments are welcome

[neetones]

absolutely beautiful.

Nitin

[Tim Adlam]

Outstanding work Jason!

There's a lot for the eye to take in there.
It was a pleasure to see this project evolve through the past months.
Can't wait to see what this work will inspire for future projects.

You should treat yourself to a well-deserved vacation!

I would like to read a commentary about your thoughts, inspiration, approach
and problems solved on this project.
Make it long...

Thanks for sharing this.

Tim

[engraverjay2]

Hello all,

Thank you. This project was a true test of patience and sanity. My thoughts on this peice was to go above and beyond my call of duty and make a classic mix of styles on a modern gun with modern engraving. With the intentions of giving a company that would generally send this type of work over seas to have done, by showing that it can be done here in the US.
My inspiration comes from Christian DeCamillis. We most definatly bring the best out of each other with collective criticism and different veiw points. Alot of times he will pick up on something I didnt see, or see it in a different way. Chris plays a huge part in design. One great advantage of having a good buisness partner. The rest of the inspiration comes from alot of Italian engravers we look up to.
My approach to it was that it wasnt going to take as much time as it looked.....boy was I wrong I dislike layout the most but understand that it is the most important part of design. So I try to get as much of it out of the way in the begining as possible. I wanted to do the trigger guard as well in pierced/sculpted engraving but time didnt allow. And I know...time wasnt my focus but I couldnt go completely hungry in the process(which I almost did). I just did what I did, as best I could, with what I had. There was accually quite a mix of emotions in the process.
Problems solved......The inconsistant steel. Overall pretty hard for cutting outlines and shading but it scuplted great. It was really weird metal. The fore end metal was a nightmere, Hard as a rock. I could not use my normal 90 degree graver it just wouldnt hold up. I had to use a 100-110 degree at 70 degree face to get any leverage. As a matter of fact this job murdered almost all my gravers. they are all dead! Time to toss and buy new. A high speed rotary helped me keep my sanity by assisting me in backround removal. With out it I would either still be working on it or in the looney bin . Piercing the top lever button was very difficult because it was WAY too thick. If I had to do it again I would file it a little thinner and reshape it a little.

Over all it was fun. The price to do this job....Your heart, sole, blood and the biggest test of patience in my life. 450hrs gone HALLELUIAH!!!!!!!
Cant say much more except I'll be working on short, small jobs for a while.
Take care,

[SharpByCoop]

Originally posted by engraverjay2
My thoughts on this peice was to go above and beyond my call of duty......

Jay, you DID just that, in my eyes. I've never seen anything more spectacular. Many thanks for your updates and comments.

Sometimes we go about and nearly give ourselves away to get a project done that really, ....credits us. I'm certain your client and business recognize that on this work.

Now go ask for that raise...!

Coop

[pilkguns]

excellant work and commentary Jason. That feeling of euphoria looking at the finished product is almost worth all the hard times in between.

and yea, I used to do someKolars when I was doing some production work, they are quite a mix of metals

[rhrocker]

Exceptional Jason!

[Hot&CoaledForge]

I looked at this earlier when you first posted the pics and I was too blown away to say anything at the time. Looking at it now, the best I can manage is "WOW!!!".

[ron p. nott]

Hey Jacson ..Great job you are very tallented engraver, keep those photos coming and thanks again ...

[Lori Ristinen]

I really want to view the images but they don't show up for me. It's happened on a few other posts as well - once in a while. Other times I have no problem.

Lori

[Lori Ristinen]

For some reason they show up now.

Absolutely beautiful work!!!

Lori

[Joe Mason]

Really nice work Jason. Keep it up and keep showing us these great pictures.

Joe

[smithwessonengr]

someone please explain this 100 to 110 degree sharping angle stuff....im lost :confused:

[pilkguns]

100-110 degrees refer to the shape angle on of the bottom ofthe graver itself. A square graver that most of us use, is a 90 degree graver, and it leaves a 90 degree slot in the metal surface. a knife graver would be about a 40 dgree graver, leaving a very thin cut in the base metal. Flat gravers are 180 degrees gravers.
a round graver technically would be a 360 degree graver, although I have never heard it called that.

opening up a square graver to 110 degrees makes it much more stronger than a typical 90 degree with little change to its cutting/controllability. about 130 is the max you can go, and I would only use it on soft metal, silver or aluminum for something like Western double cut.

[HermanKnives]

Jason,

What an amazing job. YOU R DA MAN!!! I love the carved work and your scrollwork. Thats one fantastic job.

Wayne,

I use a 120 angled graver now almost exclusively and with Lindsay's carbalt gravers, I have engraved 2 full coverage folders and only touched up the point the tiniest bit. The added strength plus those carbalt gravers just last forever. And still get the super fine banknote work.