A couple of new pics

Marcus Hunt

Marcus Hunt

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Hi guys, here are a couple of pictures of some lockplates I engraved late last year. This is for gun No 3 in a series I'm doing. They are based on the art of Archibald Thorburn. The abbreviated word for the small birds which is in common usage in England isn't allowed (it gets ****) because it's also slang for a woman's breasts. Thorburn used the full name Titmouse but I'm not sure if the plural is titmice???:confused:

Anyway..... The first plate depicts Long Tailed Titmouses/mice. The one on the left is the Thorburn bird.
The second plate depicts Wood Pigeon, the perched bird being the Thorburn.
 

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jimzim75

jimzim75

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Hi Marcus,
Great job, I thought the idea was to put a picture of what you were hunting on the
weapon to draw the animals spirit to the hunter. So your patron would be hunting
song birds, the Titmouse in particular. I know there isn't much left after the last mad
cow thing, isn't that a little extreme.

Jim
 
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Marcus. Nice work. Strange as it may seem the most impressive part to me is the clouds. Clouds are hard to do and make them look correct. Im impressed.
 
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