Razorback & Fishscale

Owch, that totally sucks! Those were beautifully done! How did you do the pattern on the knife scales?

-- Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands- establish the work of our hands! Psalm 90:17

I am sorry I dont understand your question, the de fleur pattern or the fish scales themselves?

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oh, sorry! I meant the fish scales themselves.

-- Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands- establish the work of our hands! Psalm 90:17

An outstanding engraving . I hope it shows up.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Demowen, I will send you a PM to answer the question as it is kind of lengthy

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that would be great!

-- Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands- establish the work of our hands! Psalm 90:17

Beautiful work.
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at engraving for quite some time. Looked at a couple of air turbine type engravers at woodworks shows but don’t know if that’s where I should start. Couple-three hundred bucks.
Dremmel type tools don’t seem to have the power or speed to cut clean enough. Any suggestions??
I don’t expect to do anything as nice as you do, but I should be able to get by for accents on furniture and such.

Dremels are nice for a lot of things, but they are considered low speed and high torque. They are also a bit bulky to use in the hand for engraving, especially for long periods of time. Dremels generally have speeds of 15-20,000 rpms. They can do some nice work in softer materials such as bone and antler but are a bit to torquey to use on hardwoods. I use a pneumatic high speed engraver, high speed low torque with RPMs of around 350,000. It has very low toque to where you can engrave on eggshells in detail. I would recommend getting the high speed engraver, most that I know of happen to be pneumatic. They are a bit spendy, but you will not be disappointed.

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That is too bad that this work of art was lost. Beautiful work as always. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Jeff

Design is the hardest part of gunstock carving and you do a super job. I look forward to your posts.

-- Bernie Stemplinger

wow great stock and the etchings are beautiful

-- riosartworks