Mark Knapp
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I've started a new project. I'm going to embellish a customers knife with engraving (risky I know, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, right). This custom knife was ordered in 2012 (I'm afraid I have a five year backlog of knives to build). Since I wasn't engraving at the time of the order, this order didn't include engraving. I've always tried to give my customers a little more than they expected. I'm not charging extra for the engraving but this will be the first paying customer to get some of my engraving.
Here's the knife it's going on. It has a damascus blade, and abalone, blue amber and nickle silver on the handle. The butt cap and the spacers will get engraved.
The sketch, the butt cap and the practice piece. Nickle silver cuts like butter compared to the floor plate and the stainless steel folder bolster of my two previous projects so this is a lot of fun.
I may have made a serious blunder on my Nimschke practice piece on the folder bolster. I used Bulini cross hatch shading on it instead of the traditional shading done in scroll engraving. I thought it looked more natural and thought I'd try it.
The engraving art form is hugely steeped in tradition and it's easy for the uninformed to make these kinds of mistakes. I made other errors on the folder too but I think the shading was the big one.
On this knife I will stick to the traditions, I think this is no place for experimentation.
When I got up this morning I put on my thick skin so please let me know how I might make this better.
Thanks Mark
Here's the knife it's going on. It has a damascus blade, and abalone, blue amber and nickle silver on the handle. The butt cap and the spacers will get engraved.
The sketch, the butt cap and the practice piece. Nickle silver cuts like butter compared to the floor plate and the stainless steel folder bolster of my two previous projects so this is a lot of fun.
I may have made a serious blunder on my Nimschke practice piece on the folder bolster. I used Bulini cross hatch shading on it instead of the traditional shading done in scroll engraving. I thought it looked more natural and thought I'd try it.
The engraving art form is hugely steeped in tradition and it's easy for the uninformed to make these kinds of mistakes. I made other errors on the folder too but I think the shading was the big one.
On this knife I will stick to the traditions, I think this is no place for experimentation.
When I got up this morning I put on my thick skin so please let me know how I might make this better.
Thanks Mark