Southern Custom
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
If you want to maintain your sanity at any rate I wouldn't recommend taking on silly jobs like this.
Obviously nothing special about this simple outline of the double eagle from the Albanian flag. It wasn't till I sat down to cut it that it dawned on me just how delicate this simple engraving was and that its the last time I'll take a job like this. Any slips, it's over. Look at it wrong and it scratches. Touch it with a tool and it's marred. One of those little Sig P238s with a black parkerized type finish. I agreed to it on a whim because the client wanted to match the "through the black" factory scroll and flower on the back. Every time I lifted the graver at the end of a cut I winced. Too much room for error and not enough money for the stress. Call me a wimp. Here's a short explanation of the process in smileys.:biggrin::thinking::no::beatup:
Obviously nothing special about this simple outline of the double eagle from the Albanian flag. It wasn't till I sat down to cut it that it dawned on me just how delicate this simple engraving was and that its the last time I'll take a job like this. Any slips, it's over. Look at it wrong and it scratches. Touch it with a tool and it's marred. One of those little Sig P238s with a black parkerized type finish. I agreed to it on a whim because the client wanted to match the "through the black" factory scroll and flower on the back. Every time I lifted the graver at the end of a cut I winced. Too much room for error and not enough money for the stress. Call me a wimp. Here's a short explanation of the process in smileys.:biggrin::thinking::no::beatup:
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