spadebit
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Just finished for a customer in Europe. Fairly large diameter all steel horn cap for a saddle. The engraving was to resemble the floral carving that we do on saddles, and the customer specified he wanted Watter-Lilly's. You can see that the seed pod centers on the Lilly's are inlaid fine silver, while the Lilly bud and leaf both sport bits of Gold inlay. I wrapped the Carlos Border around the outer edge, and broke the border in 2 places with the vine work as was requested. The entire pattern is back ground removed by first outlining with a 105, then remove the actual background using my modified negative rake 40 flat- foe me it just seems more intuitive while I also know many gun engravers would frown on doing such a thing. All the shade work, was done with a 75 degree Vee tool. I did not use my scope, for no other reason than I really don't like working under one. Just gott'a send a shout out to Shawn Didyoung for his great tutorial on cutting the border, even thought we both have a different look when done.(my fault)