Barry Lee Hands engraved Ron Lake with the all new "Burnished Blade" technique

Barry Lee Hands

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Here is a Ron Lake, with the all new "Burnished Blade" technique, yellow gold leaves , rose gold stems, rose gold rope border with sculpted steel leaves and stippled and inked backgound.
Thanks to Ron P. and Kirby for help in locating the canvas.
You can also see it at Paul Shindler's Knife Legends:

http://www.knifelegends.com/homepage.htm


 
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Thank you very much Marty.
That means a lot coming from you, your scenes I have admired since I first joined the Guild, way back in 93 or so, seems like yesterday, but a hundred years ago at the same time.
 

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What can I say the other didn't Barry? Just plain super!
Oh, I do see you are signing them!! I guess I am good for something... :)
Rex
 

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C'est Superbe!!!

Hi Barry
a famous knife , and what a lovely engraving ....

Congratulations !!!
 

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Barry, what else can I say than I would like to cut a piece of sausage with this knife. :p
Beautiful and sure a must have knife.
After Rex pointed on the signature, now I see hands.

Thanks for showing this beauty. :thumbs up:

arnaud
 

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WOW You are turning out some exquisite work Barry. Taking skills to a WHOLE new level.

Pleasure seeing it. Thanks
 

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Barry
Very nice work. I hope you will have one of these knifes with the "Burnished Blade" technique at Reno. I would very much like to see first hand. Once again beautiful work well done

Mike
 

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Do I understand correctly that the leaves on the blade are sculpted?
The contrast on the blade is beautiful.
Kevin P.
 

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The burnishing is extremely cool! You're getting nice transitions and a 3D effect. Lovely piece and a real attention getter!
 

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Thanks for all the good comments folks. . . .


Wow!! I love Lake knives
Thanks Steve, Lake knives are fun, first class all the way, in the end it's really all about the knife.

The burnishing is extremely cool! You're getting nice transitions and a 3D effect. Lovely piece and a real attention getter!
Thank you Sam, Just trying to do something a little different, a little further.
When you and I were at the Churchill GM he spoke about the effect of repetition and the use of ghost leaves, and that was an influence in dreaming this up.
Thanks to you for your part in all that.


Beautiful piece,
Great 3-D rope border too.
Thanks John, a little 18k "twist" on Lindsay's old 24k borders.
At Gist we used a lot of rope borders and I remember Don Glaser was always demonstrating his "flash cut" western border. I thought of that as kind of a flat rope border.
Back when I taught at GRS, he would come by the classroom on wednesday or thursday and wonder if anyone wanted to see how it was done.
Of course they always did.

Oh, I do see you are signing them!! I guess I am good for something... :)
Rex
Yes Rex, thats the Rex and Keith Pedersen " two Hands" logo. . .
Hi Barry
a famous knife , and what a lovely engraving ....

Congratulations !!!
Thanks Santos, it is a very nice knife.

Barry, what else can I say than I would like to cut a piece of sausage with this knife. :p
Beautiful and sure a must have knife.
After Rex pointed on the signature, now I see hands.

Thanks for showing this beauty. :thumbs up:
arnaud
Thanks Arnaud, it is very sharp, a lovely sausage knife it would be.

Barry
Very nice work. I hope you will have one of these knifes with the "Burnished
Blade" technique at Reno. I would very much like to see first hand. Once again beautiful work well done

Mike

I don't know if I will have one or not, but I will bring pics, thanks for the interest.

Another home run Barry with the combination of the gold and pattern continuing down the blade.............and I do love that Rose/pink gold :)

Cheers
Andrew

Thanks Andrew, remember: The Tao of Rose gold. . . .
oommmmmmmmm

air engraving pen tip back and forth play.? Please write a detailed answer

Dear Ragi, thanks for writing all the way from Turkey, but I don't understand the question, could you rephrase please?

Do I understand correctly that the leaves on the blade are sculpted?
The contrast on the blade is beautiful.
Kevin P.

It is burnished Kevin, no sculpting on the blade, and contrast is the good word, that is what gets our eye to recognize the concept.

Nice and subtle.

Marty
Thanks Marty, yes, subtle is good on a blade, too much and it makes the blade grow shorter to the eye.
 
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Barry: Churchill is a master when it comes to ghosting leaves into the background, and he also uses a burnisher to great advantage. What little I've done was done after an aluminum oxide blast on the metal or after stippling. I did this loupe as a show demo and lightly burnished-in the background stems and leaves after the everything else was cut and the background stippled. For burnishing I have used an steel or carbide burnisher and for larger areas various sizes of Cratex rubber abrasives and pencil erasers. You are getting super nice results. Is the finish as fragile as I'm imagining?

~Sam
 

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Here is a Ron Lake, with the all new "Burnished Blade" technique, yellow gold leaves , rose gold stems, rose gold rope border with sculpted steel leaves and stippled and inked backgound.
Thanks to Ron P. and Kirby for help in locating the canvas.
You can also see it at Paul Shindler's Knife Legends:

http://www.knifelegends.com/homepage.htm



:thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up: I like you and knife. :beerchug:
 
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