Thank you Sam! I followed your advice on a previous post of mine of a family crest i engraved with gold inlay. I now pay very close attention to back cutting my outlines. Thanks!
Yes, there's obviously a LOT of back cutting on a job like this with all the straight lines. This is very neatly engraved and you've left a bit of whitespace exactly where's it's needed.
I did a sculpted version of this years ago you might be interested in.
This is very nice, almost looks like a nightmare to lay out.
Peter
The layout was actually quick to do. I used Corel draw to draw a grid, Then turned the grid 45 degrees. This was then transferred to the metal via acetone transfer method. I then erased the unwanted extra lines of the transfer and started cutting.