Dani Girl
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
Hi Everyone.
Some of you may know me I've been on this forum on and off for the last year or two and I was wandering if anyone could answer a couple of quick questions for me.
How do you make money engraving?
Are there any such thing as apprenticeships or traineeships left in the world? Is anyone willing to take on a new engraver and teach them the ropes? (while paying them) or at relatively little cost.
Are there any gun engraving businesses in the world that take on people? Or anything similar to that?
I reckon the world's great engravers should get someone who doesn't know that much and teach them how to perfect background removal and put them to work on their pieces so they can get more work done and the new guy would learn heaps. Odd idea i guess, hey, I'm an odd person.
I'm in Australia so a quick question to other Aussies... what type of engraving do you make the most money out of? Jewellery, knives, saddle/ bits/ spurrs? Do you engrave guns? How do you market your work?
Thanks to everyone who has a moment to post their thoughts. Much appreciated.
Danae
Some of you may know me I've been on this forum on and off for the last year or two and I was wandering if anyone could answer a couple of quick questions for me.
How do you make money engraving?
Are there any such thing as apprenticeships or traineeships left in the world? Is anyone willing to take on a new engraver and teach them the ropes? (while paying them) or at relatively little cost.
Are there any gun engraving businesses in the world that take on people? Or anything similar to that?
I reckon the world's great engravers should get someone who doesn't know that much and teach them how to perfect background removal and put them to work on their pieces so they can get more work done and the new guy would learn heaps. Odd idea i guess, hey, I'm an odd person.
I'm in Australia so a quick question to other Aussies... what type of engraving do you make the most money out of? Jewellery, knives, saddle/ bits/ spurrs? Do you engrave guns? How do you market your work?
Thanks to everyone who has a moment to post their thoughts. Much appreciated.
Danae