Blast from the past

[Sam]

About 32 years ago when I was still playing music professionally, I engraved this buckle for a police officer friend of mine who worked at the club where my band played. We recently reconnected on Facebook and he sent me a photo of the buckle.

Back in the day I would buy plain cast brass buckles by the dozen for engraving.

 

[metalchipper]

Shows Promise

Hello Sam,
Your work shows promise, keep it up, who knows how good you will become.
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Thanks for posting
Mark:banana:

 

[silverchip]

so was that pre air days?

 

[Jeroen]

This post demonstrates the answer to a question on the other forum: after 32 years the background still does look good, and I guess it's not been in a drawer for all that time?
So: did you lower the background first before using the beading tool, Sam?

Jeroen

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Keep practicing Sam. There is a lot of potential there

Thats a lot of background beading. It must have felt like covering Texas.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Mario Sarto]

Very up to date! Ray-leather is most wanted these days.

Lot of work

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Jeroen, you probably refer to this knife I recently posted.

When looking at Sam,s, I don't think my background will wear of soon neither.

arnaud

 

[Sam]

Silverchip: I had a Gravermeister around that time, and this could have been done with that. I don't remember.

Jeroen: No, the background has not been lowered, and I don't know how much the buckle has been worn.

Andrew: Yes, an insane amount of beading. What was I thinking?!

 

[bronc]

Thanks for showing that Sam. It's cool to look back!

Stewart

 

[monk]

that is a very nice buckle, sam. so nice to know that your work is in actual use, rather than hangin on some wall somewhere.