Barry Lee Hands engraved knife

[Sam]

So I got to see one of Barry Lee's ingenious and deceiving engravings at the SCI show this weekend. It's a stunning treatment of gold overlay and raised gold inlay.

The stainless steel background has been deeply recessed around the gold leaves and is perfectly flat...or so I thought. The combination of raised gold borders and raised gold leaves gives the illusion that the background has been removed. It fooled me, that's for sure! You really have to see it to believe it. Sorry the pics aren't better. All I had was my iPhone.

Nice to see you Barry, and thanks for stopping by!

 

[JOEYS CARVED ART]

Looks great!! I like it!! The pics are good.

 

[Larry Simmons]

Looks Great!!!!!!!!

 

[Fred Bowen]

At first I wondered where you found the couch at the show to use as a background for the knife photo, then I remembered.....

Classic and classy Barry engraving- excellent as usual!

 

[SamW]

What a pair to draw to!!

How was SCI Sam?

 

[Andrew Biggs]

The complexity of Barry's knives is stunning. The photos never do the work justice.......It's not till you actually hold his knives in your hand that you realise just how incredibly complex they really are. Just the amount of gold alone adds considerably to the weight of the knife!!!

Cheers
Andrew

 

[LVVP]

Amazing work, thanks

 

[Barry Lee Hands]

Thank guys! Sam it was really great to spend some time with you at SCI-you are such a great talent and have done sooo much for our art.
I hope to see you at the FEGA show next year!

 

[monk]

a nice, clean, classy look you have there barry ! many thanks to you for your efforts in the fega organization.

 

[silverchip]

Ihave a question for Barry. What is the purpose for the little bridges between the leaf structure for??

 

[Barry Lee Hands]

They are stems, vestigial perhaps, i have left them out on some leaf arrangements, but then oeople ask, where did the stems go?

 

[Ed Westerly]

No stems, no seed, nothin' you don't need.

 

[Brian Marshall]

Bruce...

Yer confused... leaves stems and seeds?

That was what we had in the 60's...

Nowadays it's all buds.


Brian

 

[Barry Lee Hands]

Jeje, thanks Bruce and Brian.