English Scroll

[thughes]

Hi all,
I was just sitting on the porch this morning drinking coffee and reading old threads, and ran across a lengthy thread encouraging Marcus to develope a tutorial on cutting English Scroll. Did anything like this ever come about? I looked on GRS and didn't see anything. Just curious.

Thanks

 

[GTJC460]

I know I'd love to see this!

 

[scott99]

scroll

Hi, check the Tips archive there is a bunch on English scrolls.

scott99

 

[bram ramon]

The best guys in english scroll are Jean Marie Martens, Pascal Jacoby, and nr 1 Wiston Churchill. You can a learn a lot of these pictures engraved by Jean Marie Martens; http://www.engraverscafe.com/showthread.php?9047-gun-engraving&highlight=martens

English scroll is what we start with at school.

 

[rod]

Bram,

I looked again on your link back to Martens, his work is absolutely stunning, inspiring, and the cutting is superb! Thanks again for this reminder. He really makes those big 2 and a half turn scrolls work so well in this masterwork.

best

Rod

 

[thughes]

Yeah, I know there are lots of fabulous photos around. It was 2or3 years ago and folks were talking about a tutorial/step kinf of thing. Just wondering how it's done.

Thanks

 

[rod]

Marcus has a practice mold in englsh style sold for $20 through FEGA, see here:

http://www.fega.com/prodserv/Casts.asp?offset=10

As we know, a casting shows more information than a photo, for example, depth of cut.

Rod

 

[Andrew Biggs]

The best guys in english scroll are Jean Marie Martens, Pascal Jacoby, and nr 1 Wiston Churchill.

I think there a quite a few more than that. We just never see them on the forums

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Peter E]

I took a class in English scroll from Marcus at GRS a few years ago. He was developing a "kit" to be marketed through GRS, but I don't know if it ever came to fruition. Have you checked the GRS website?

 

[thughes]

Peter,
Yes sir I did, did not see anything on GRS. It's not a big deal, but I ran across the thread from 2 or 3 years ago where that "kit" was discussed. That's what made me ask the question. I certainly haven't mastered plain old "American" scroll, so it's not like I'm bored or anything, but I've always thought that the small scroll was a beautiful form.

 

[Beathard]

Rex teaches english scroll as part of his start to finish classes.