pilkguns
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Trying to lay out a border that is not just a border, but gives you areas to place scroll in that accent or enhance the overall shape and flow of the curves in the piece is the pinnacle of engraving design. It's where you as the engraver try to interpet the makers design a little more subtlely with scrolls and florishes. Trying to get that interior shape for the piece that maintains the feel of overall outline and curves of the perimeter of thepeice is not always easy. Here is an example of that in slightly differnt format, but maybe it emphasizes more what is necessary to those new to this.
This my 1968 Corvair UltraVan , fresh out of the paintshop which as you can see has a few curves of its own, and some design features like the forward windows and windshield that had dynamic lines that had to be followed. The blue field is what I came up with as the area to accent the lines already present on the vehicle. The interior white stripe, the border if you will makes the blue field really have some "snap" against the white. If this was an engraving piece, then the scroll is what be done inside the blue feild, with an accenting border like wheat chaff runing around where the narrow white line is.
More Ultra pics and info is here
http://www.pilkguns.com/fotouv.htm
This my 1968 Corvair UltraVan , fresh out of the paintshop which as you can see has a few curves of its own, and some design features like the forward windows and windshield that had dynamic lines that had to be followed. The blue field is what I came up with as the area to accent the lines already present on the vehicle. The interior white stripe, the border if you will makes the blue field really have some "snap" against the white. If this was an engraving piece, then the scroll is what be done inside the blue feild, with an accenting border like wheat chaff runing around where the narrow white line is.
More Ultra pics and info is here
http://www.pilkguns.com/fotouv.htm