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Bob's right it is a depth gauge made for a mechanist work,the engraver must have used it for inlaying.Checking the depth of the cavity before setting the gold.Ken Hurst designed one just for that...
A company 'Consolidated Engravers' was closed in 2001 and was purchased by a NC company. It was a New Jersey based 65 year old commercial engraving and gravure printing company. Your tool looks older...
If you don't mind me asking. Do you leave the back of the pendant as a nickel or do you do away with any trace of the nickel?. I just made my first nickel pendant and left no trace of the nickel. But...
I have already showed this when it was flat, but as it is that wide it was quite hard to make a good photo.
Now that it is bended, it really has come to live even on a photo and shows the coloured background better.
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Thanks. A good video is worth many thousand...
Thanks. A good video is worth many thousand words. Outstanding design and execution on the shotgun.
Mike Fennell 05-21-2013, 11:26 PM