dave gibson
Elite Cafe Member
Here's one I fished up today, since the photo it's been domed and backing hardware attached. I'm pretty pleased with this one, I know the background isn't so great but I'm progressing.
I knew I'd be having some trouble laying down so many parallel lines so I thought I would intentionally try to keep it loose looking, I failed there, it's not at all what I envisioned. I tried putting some squared up pencil lines to follow, still got a lot of diagonals. I got the best results just keeping an eye on the edge and freehanding the cuts, quickly one after another very close, too close in many cases, it looks dark and obscures the scroll work in places.
I stippled the panel behind the head with a sharp round point and held it down to make some single point deep dots. They aren't so visible in normal light, the photo really makes them show so I added some more to even that effect out.
I'm playing around with removing backgrounds but 17 ga. nickel is the thickest nickel Rio sells, is that thick enough, I'm not real good at it yet and I have cut through in some past attempts.
Any opinions and advice on what could make belt buckles like this look better would be appreciated.
I knew I'd be having some trouble laying down so many parallel lines so I thought I would intentionally try to keep it loose looking, I failed there, it's not at all what I envisioned. I tried putting some squared up pencil lines to follow, still got a lot of diagonals. I got the best results just keeping an eye on the edge and freehanding the cuts, quickly one after another very close, too close in many cases, it looks dark and obscures the scroll work in places.
I stippled the panel behind the head with a sharp round point and held it down to make some single point deep dots. They aren't so visible in normal light, the photo really makes them show so I added some more to even that effect out.
I'm playing around with removing backgrounds but 17 ga. nickel is the thickest nickel Rio sells, is that thick enough, I'm not real good at it yet and I have cut through in some past attempts.
Any opinions and advice on what could make belt buckles like this look better would be appreciated.