I'm looking for critique on my design, cause I already know my lettering is the worst I've done in a while, terrible. But overall design wise, what do ye'll think. I seem to kind of be stuck and I was trying to do something a little different than MY usual.
On the question side, I had a ton of trouble trying to do this lettering. I sharpened my flat the way sam taught me, and which has worked fine on sterling stuff and the stainless steel cubes I've been practicing on, but not so much on this thing. The corner kept breaking off and since I am not real skilled yet, resulted in some of those funny shaped letters as I tried to hide the results of my skids after point failure. I finally gave up and finished it with my 105 and tried to fake the flare cuts. I'm wondering if the problem is the unsupported side of the knife flexing and causing vibration? I had the other side bedded firmly in thermo loc.
My other question is the border. I found I couldn't mark my border with my dividers because of the big bevel on the side of the handle. I guess if you had a set of dividers with one leg a lot shorter than the other, maby that would work. In this case I just cut it free hand with no line and tried to stay a uniform distance from the edge. How would ya'll deal with that big bevel?
Well, thanks for any advise and everyone have a safe and happy holiday.
Todd
On the question side, I had a ton of trouble trying to do this lettering. I sharpened my flat the way sam taught me, and which has worked fine on sterling stuff and the stainless steel cubes I've been practicing on, but not so much on this thing. The corner kept breaking off and since I am not real skilled yet, resulted in some of those funny shaped letters as I tried to hide the results of my skids after point failure. I finally gave up and finished it with my 105 and tried to fake the flare cuts. I'm wondering if the problem is the unsupported side of the knife flexing and causing vibration? I had the other side bedded firmly in thermo loc.
My other question is the border. I found I couldn't mark my border with my dividers because of the big bevel on the side of the handle. I guess if you had a set of dividers with one leg a lot shorter than the other, maby that would work. In this case I just cut it free hand with no line and tried to stay a uniform distance from the edge. How would ya'll deal with that big bevel?
Well, thanks for any advise and everyone have a safe and happy holiday.
Todd