pilkguns
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He did not give me constructive critique. If he had given me what you talk about in your post, I am a happy man. Thanks again.
PS, I am not necessarily looking for only free advise, I will take what free advise I can get and I will pay for what I need to.
Seems to me he asked what you were trying to achieve to better frame an answer. You have to admit your picture and you statements about it were pretty "loosey goosey". Do you want to try learn to do something right or do you want break every rule in the book and be happy in your ignorance? There are engravers who do it both ways and seem to be commercially successful so I would guess this is where Thierry was coming from. On your other complaint, just because someone is a member of this forum does not mean they are experts. I often tell my students that you could take a gun, give it a good polish job, then throw it back and forth across a gravel parking lot a dozen times and the take and it show it to ten people saying look at my engraving and at least nine of the ten would tell you how beautiful it is. Shiny jagged jiggly lines just seem to look alike to most people. Sad but true.
I guess given the expertise level, I think you should be FAR more grateful for Thierry's words than Mnavarro if your goal is to excel in this endeavor. Because he has tried to help you, and truly can, whereas Mnavarro just showed his lack of knowledge on the subject. Nothing wrong with being unknowledgeable , he is here to learn as we all had to do at one time.
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