Practice plates

Thierry Duguet · Jul 20, 2007

Hello,

I am posting some pictures of the practice plate I did engrave when I was in Belgium. I thought it might be useful for people who want to learn to engrave. Unfortunately I do not have the pictures of the most basic practice plate, the one I got are from the end of first year beginning/mid second year.
I hope it will help.
Please do keep in mind that I did that over 20 years ago. I post them because I know how difficult it could be to create ones own practice plate design. I think they show a good progression (from 1 to 5) of an increasing level of difficulties, use them as such.

Weldon47 · Jul 20, 2007

Thierry,

Excellent work, thanks for sharing. Solid designs that still look great 20 years later! By the way, those look a whole lot better than my practice plates from by beginning days.

Weldon

jlseymour · Jul 20, 2007

Thierry, Very Nice, Hope to someday...
What do you mean by end of first year beginning/mid year???
Were you an apprentice for year one full time???
Please explain...
JL Seymour

Thierry Duguet · Jul 20, 2007

jlseymour said:
Thierry, Very Nice, Hope to someday...
What do you mean by end of first year beginning/mid year???
Were you an apprentice for year one full time???
Please explain...
JL Seymour

No, I went to school, at the "Ecole d'Armurerie" in Liege. Of course we did engrave, learn about art (mostly sculpting and painting), we learn to draw, we even had math, French, etc classes. Just a regular "technical school". The program for engraving last 2 years.

Thierry Duguet · Jul 20, 2007

Weldon47 said:
Thierry,

Excellent work, thanks for sharing. Solid designs that still look great 20 years later! By the way, those look a whole lot better than my practice plates from by beginning days.

Weldon

I had good teachers

JBrandvik · Jul 20, 2007

Wow!
like JL said... "Someday". Thank you for showing your work. It is both instructional and inspirational.

jlseymour · Jul 20, 2007

WOW!!!

JL Seymour

JJ Roberts · Jul 21, 2007

Thierry,

Thanks for sharing. If you are coming to the gunshow next week-end bring those plates with you I would like to get a close-up view of them. Keep up the good work.

JJ

Sam · Jul 21, 2007

Thierry: Those are beautifully done. Congratulations. I hope you add them to the Gallery so they can easily be found for future reference. / ~Sam

Ron Smith · Jul 21, 2007

Thierry, That is excellent work. I see Philippe Grifn'ee style in some of the work. Did he have anything to do with the school? It looks like what Philippe was doing about that time. Great work!.............Ron S

Thierry Duguet · Jul 22, 2007

Ron Smith said:
Thierry, That is excellent work. I see Philippe Grifn'ee style in some of the work. Did he have anything to do with the school? It looks like what Philippe was doing about that time. Great work!.............Ron S

Hello,

They were (maybe are) the standard pattern we were suppose to be doing at the time. Actually Philippe was one of my teacher (only part time, he was teaching with Delcour most of the time). Mr Floren and Dossin were my full time time teachers.
Good catch Ron

sdcoxx · Jul 22, 2007

Thierry,
You hit the nail on the head, these layouts for practice plates will be very helpful.
Thank you for sharing,
Stephen

Thierry Duguet · Jul 22, 2007

sdcoxx said:
Thierry,
You hit the nail on the head, these layouts for practice plates will be very helpful.
Thank you for sharing,
Stephen

Thanks, I hope they will be. If I got the time I shall try to make some more basic patterns and I will post them.

ddushane · Jul 23, 2007

Thierry, I'm impressed, awesome design! Dwayne

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