Just a quick note to say I appreciate your time when you post these types of examples, Sam. It is easy to use these to study shading and line geometry, as well as shape development, proportion, and perspective.
It's a study in and of itself. I appreciate your time and effort, as do many, many others, I'm quite certain.
I brought a new Graver Mach AT with hand palm 901 hand pice. I saw that Sam posted a picture of Fleur de Lys, for shading practice, so I took a silver plate and tried my new macine. I feel very good en graving with the palm pice, but I was always puting my foot down when I was graving