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henningssom · Jul 15, 2016

Some pictures on my progress, thought it might be fun to follow.

Backbone with copper inlay is done.
I will continue with green and yellow gold inlay for the leaves.
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Omar Haltam · Jul 15, 2016

looking good so far, good luck with the rest of it

jbrayout · Jul 15, 2016

Looks great. I am getting ready to start my first inlay project. Did you undercut the edges of the backbone along with cutting in a ton of chips? Please keep posting the rest of the project, very helpful.
Thanks
Jenny

henningssom · Jul 16, 2016

Thanks!
I undercut everything I can.
I have found out that with undercuts it is a lot easier to get the gold to stick.
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speeedy6 · Jul 16, 2016

Thank you for the progress photo's . When you get to the green gold, please comment on any difficulty you may have with it. I understand it's a little tough to work with.

henningssom · Jul 16, 2016

The green gold is a bit different from the 24k.
But you can touch it until it's red, dip it quickly into water then it becomes softer. Not soft as 24k though.
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Mike

Sinterklaas · Jul 16, 2016

henningssom said:
The green gold is a bit different from the 24k.
But you can touch it until it's red, dip it quickly into water then it becomes softer. Not soft as 24k though.
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Mike

I am guessing the green is 14K. Or is it higher?
14K is quite hard especially white. Yellow and red a softer. Green is probably more like white.

henningssom · Jul 16, 2016

I use 18k green gold.
I have 18k pink too but that is much harder. Almost impossible to inlay.
I haven't tried white yet so I can't say anything about that.
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henningssom · Jul 17, 2016

So one week in and my neck hurts like hell!
I think I have to take a couple of days off away from the microscope.

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dhall · Jul 17, 2016

Hi Mike,
Sorry to hear you're in pain. Some observations, if I may.
However it is that you normally hold your head/neck/shoulders, is how you should be positioned when you engrave. You shouldn't have to change your normal, neutral body position. You have to change whatever it is about your engraving setup that is forcing you to change your posture. Sometimes a simple tilt of your head can make a world of difference. It might mean a change in chair height, microscope height or angle or working height/angle. If you can't figure out what's different from how you normally hold your head/neck/shoulders, compared to when you engrave, have someone help by having them observe your posture so you can make the change. It shouldn't hurt when you engrave, and if you don't make a positive change, it can have some serious consequences. You do such nice work, it'd be a shame if a posture issue kept you from achieving your best, and left you injured, too. I hope you can get it worked out.

Best regards,
Doug

henningssom · Jul 18, 2016

Hi Doug!
Thank you for your recommendations.
I will try to find a good position now that I know it can be fixed.
I just thought that it was my neck but apparently this has been a problem amongst engravers before.
I'll keep you updated on how it goes.
I have rested today though, well actually I have been in my workshop making knives.
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henningssom · Jul 19, 2016

Okay so here is the daily updates.
I was in laying the gold today and it worked pretty good.

All I had to do was fixing the pores and then I was done for today.

Now this is a liner lock folding knife but since I want to make my knives more elegant so I make the spring integrated within the handle slab. That makes the handle right were the spring is located very thin. In this case it was too thin!
I accidentally sanded too much were I shouldn't sand of course.
I failed big time and this one went into the bins!

Okay I probably have about 200 hours on this knife and it sucks but what's even worse is that I don't have the time to make a new one before the guild show in September.
Well I got engraving training out of it

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speeedy6 · Jul 19, 2016

That's rough. Thank you for showing the bad along with the good though.

Omar Haltam · Jul 19, 2016

sorry to hear that Henningssom
otherwise your progress looks great, and that is life... we live and learn from our mistakes
don't give up and keep at it.
and just like wine our art gets better with age at least I hope so... LoL

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