Brian Hochstrat
Elite Cafe Member
Here is a good example of what happens when you look back at your early work. You want to fix it and wish nobody saw it the way it was. This knife here many of you have seen before, it was done when I first started engraving knives and my limited skill at doing female faces, which is difficult, was not what it is now. Luckily, I had the opportunity to do some recutting and improve upon what was there. Unfortunately, in 20 yrs. I will probably view what I am doing now the same as I viewed this knife. But, I think every engraver goes through that and have to except that it was as good as you could do at the time. I suppose one should feel good that you have improved enough over time to know what could be done better earlier in your career. Oh, and I got to play around in Photoshop too, I am still mediocre, but it's fun.
I think there are some before shots of this knife in the photo gallery, I cannot bring myself to show what it looked like before
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I think there are some before shots of this knife in the photo gallery, I cannot bring myself to show what it looked like before