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dclevinger · Dec 10, 2008

I did this inlay yesterday and blued it last night. It's the first time I've done an inlay with varying line width's. I used a 90 to cut the lines and ground a tiny little undercut tool from a John B. little graver. The "R" is .300" tall and I used 26 and 29 gauge wire. Please feel free to comment or critique.

David

KCSteve · Dec 10, 2008

Well that's just darn nice!

The gold really glows against the blued steel.

Tom Curran · Dec 10, 2008

What's with all this inlay business suddenly?

hahaha.

VERY nice work, varying line width, AND a curved surface! Well done.

Tom

D.DOUGLAS · Dec 10, 2008

Well done David!

Mike Bissell · Dec 10, 2008

Nice work David, well done

Mike

Andrew Biggs · Dec 10, 2008

Very nice indeed David. Beautiful lettering.

It's funny how these things can give you a real sense of acheivement.

Cheers
Andrew

JCP · Dec 10, 2008

Makes me sick, well that is when I look at my work after looking at yours.

That is really beautiful work. Hope I can get there someday.

Peter E · Dec 10, 2008

Beautifully done. Very smooth looking inlays.

Peter

Daniel Houwer · Dec 10, 2008

Brrr, that is just too clean a script letter inlaid in gold!
Utterly nice!

Daniel

Ron Smith · Dec 10, 2008

Perfection David!!

dclevinger · Dec 10, 2008

Thank you very, very much guys. I'm never quite satisfied with any of my work but this one comes awfully dang close. Also, I forgot to mention that it got the same treatment on the other side of the barrel.
Thanks again.

David

John B. · Dec 10, 2008

Friend David,
Congratulations, you really aced that one.
Beautiful piece of work.

John B.

Winstonklein · Dec 10, 2008

magnifico !

eisman · Dec 10, 2008

Way too good for that sight. Very nice.

Marcus Hunt · Dec 11, 2008

Hi David, very nicely done I must say. The barrel in your picture looks blued, was this done after the inlay work? I trust it was otherwise I'd love to know your technique for not touching the blue!

dclevinger · Dec 11, 2008

Thanks again to all of you.

Marcus, I blued it afterward with Mark Lee's Express Blue solution. Although, I did do a repair of some gold lettering on a blued gun a few months ago. It was block style letters and the leg of an "R" had popped out. I cleaned up the under cut and once the gold was in, used a razor blade to trim it down flush. It worked well but was very time consuming. The customer was very pleased that he didn't have to have the whole gun re-blued.

David

leschowe · Dec 11, 2008

This is very nice work Dave and your photography is also quite excellent.

Les Schowe

Big-Un · Dec 11, 2008

Good job Dave.

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