progress

[didyoung]

a little bit of progress made toward some better shaded fold overs and turn backs

 

[monk]

looks great !

 

[GTJC460]

That's very fine work, especially in silver.

 

[g.rohrbaugh]

Nice work!
Gary

 

[bthomas]

Shawn,

You have told me before to study other's work for shading but I keep seeing great color /depth in your leaves.....thanks for posting

Bill

 

[Ed Westerly]

You have definitely got your shading down quite well. You can really see some depth there. Good work.

 

[rayf24]

Very nice shawn dont forget to show it finished
Ray

 

[didyoung]

rayf24....sorry all i have is this picture of the finished bracelet.
you will just have to believe that it turned out looking great.
thanks for the kind comments guys!

 

[ken dixon]

Shawn,

That's lots of nice work on your website, you've come along way in a short time.

Ken

 

[Brian Marshall]

Looking good Shawn!


Didja use a pantograph or or a transfer for the sheet bronc?

I've got a master or two around here somewhere that I musta used 100+ times way back when... long before transfers existed.



Brian

 

[didyoung]

thanks ken
brian i printed off some clip art and used rubber cement to stick it to the brass then just cut it.
i have started carving some wax figures for future use.
thought about casting some dragonflies as well.

 

[GTJC460]

I could make some nice 3d sculpted figures for you with my cad/cam systems that we could create rubber molds from. If you are interested shoot me a pm for all my contact data

 

[Sam]

Looking good, Shawn! In addition to your beautifully shaded scrollwork, I like your business card!

 

[Brian Marshall]

We used to do it a similar way in Mexico. Didn't have copiers, printers or computers to help though... so it was done with an inkpad and a rubberstamp - on a piece of newspaper. There was always a big jar of paste we made up from some kinda powder you could buy at the silversmiths suppliers in town.

Those rubberstamp patterns were always a big deal when one of the small shops closed down. Everyone tried to get to the patterns first.

Made a lot of cast & fabricated jewelry and a few fabricated parts that I brought back up here during the 8 years that my shop was open down there.

I never engraved much down there. Tried a coupla times to see if anyone was interested in learning to engrave but got no takers.

Almost all the engraving at that time was done in Guadalajara. Never understood why, since the mines, refiners and mills were in Taxco...



Brian

 

[rayf24]

Nice work shawn

 

[FANCYGUN]

Love the shading Shawn. Soft and easy on the eyes. Nice work

 

[didyoung]

thanks guys!!!!

 

[rod]

I want to add my voice to others here, Shawn,

You got real good real fast with your shading, subtle and very precise light cutting. It works well for my eye.

Take a bow!

Rod

 

[didyoung]

rod..........thanks for your kind words.
i just got finished with sams new video(such a good video)........i found several areas that will improve my engraving alot.
i hope to show some great results with my next project.
again thanks everyone.
shawn