Bright cutting before shading

[silverchip]

Typical bright cutting before shading.All pushed by hand,3-1/2" round

 

[g.rohrbaugh]

That is great work! Thanks for showing!
Gary

 

[Peter_M]

Thanks for showing the in progress.

Peter

 

[Haraga.com]

The clockwise scroll in the upper right is a good example of hand engraved bright cuts. The way that the cut gradually and smoothly widens is hard to achieve with a machine. For those of you that are wondering what a bright cut is supposed to look like then that is the picture you should save and put on your bench. Thanks for putting the picture on here Dave.

 

[silverchip]

Simple liner shading finished.All of this is hand done, no air or hot air either!!!!Hope this helps with explaining the liner question that was up the other day.

 

[bronc]

Very nice Dave!

Stewart

 

[Sam]

Gotta have some arm and wrist strength for that kind of push engraving! Thanks for showing us Dave.

 

[Haraga.com]

Sam if the tool is sharpened properly and you use the right technique silver cuts like butter.

 

[silverchip]

The widest cuts measure 3.5 mm wide.

 

[didyoung]

i agree it is real nice dave.

 

[monk]

yeah, quite cool looking work.

 

[TyG]

Nice Dave, it is quite a sight to see Dave in action, big chunks of silver twanging out of the work piece. He can really hog some silver out!

 

[John P. Anderson]

Sweet. Thanks for sharing the progress pictures.

John

 

[BES]

Hi Dave!
Thanks for Showing.
Beautiful Work! Merry Christmas!

 

[eastslope]

Very nice Dave! Thanks for showing, and people don't let Leonard fool you. Those hand push guys have forearms and hands that would rival a grizzly bears. Merry Christmas.

 

[Willem Parel]

Very nice cuts, I hope some day you will put your camera on the video mode so we will be able watching you doing it....

 

[Ed Westerly]

Do you pick up those silver chips and melt them down?

 

[silverchip]

No, But I do save them in a 55 gallon barrel!!!!!!!!!!! Might get some one to refine it all someday!!

 

[Ed Westerly]

55 Gallons!!! How close is that thing to being full???

 

[GTJC460]

Silverchip, I can't tell from either photo what your scroll backbone looks like or if there is one at all. Are you cutting one with a point graver? Your bright cutting is outstanding!!!!