Phil Coggan
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AndrewHi Phil
A stunning peice and a ton of work. Just magic!!!
When you say polishing..............what exactley do you mean by that and what method do you use?
Cheers
Andrew
Rod,Phil,
Such a small country, Wales, and with such world class artistry! Singing, rugby, engraving arts!
There is no end to its talents!
best
Rod
Andrew
If the gun is cyanide hardened it will have an overall greyish colour, if it has the traditional colour hardening produced with bonemeal etc. It will have the usual blue/brown colours, these sometimes need to be polished off to get back to 'steel'. There are various ways of doing this, gun blue remover being one. I prefer to use an abrasive rubber block, with this you can be selective in what you remove, thus leaving some dark colours in the deep carving to give it that extra 3d look.
Rod,
And we're all so good looking too
Thanks also Tim, Eastslope, Joseph, Dennis, Denny, Sam, Brian, Mike and Ed.
You know, when push comes to shove this is just a Welsh boy trying to do his best
Phil
I don't know Brian......it has to be done and you just get on with it. This pair was started in January, I suppose you could say it's all down hill from hereYou say the gun won't be completed until November, I am guessing you already have quite a few weeks in it already, how on earth do you stay focused on one job for so long? I am 3 weeks into a knife and looking at 2 more weeks to completion and I am forcing myself to stay on task, I can hardly imagine cutting on something with little end in sight. How do you do it?
Beautiful work BTW- Brian