Rstripnieks
Member
Hello cafe members, after few weeks of everyday engraving after work ,countless hours of frustration cutting stainless steels with bad quality hss my First watch and also my so far biggest project is finnished. I managed to dremel off the deepley engraved invicta sign ,Andrew suggested me to be really careful with that decision,it turned out good.
I Learned a lot from this project and even though engraving looks poorly executed im proud of it,
I tried to go es deep as I could and as accurate as I could , I have no idea how exactly people engrave stainless steel without sharpening gravers every 3 minutes ,I used Lindsay 96 degree template and I kinda eyebaled how far graver should go to give me steeper face angle so it helped,graver tip lasted 50 seconds longer ,even with shading.
I finnished it With Charbonell printmaking ink to darken it.What kind of ink or paint others use on watches?
I would really appreciate your harshest critique to improve my work in my second year of engraving.
All in all im not impressed with my work (becouse my graver let me down and I really could do better job with crisper lines but at the same time im blown away with result of this project 5 months ago I couldnt even tell the difference between wood carving chisels and metal engraving chisels not even talking about cutting simple line so im quite happy that all this hard work starts to pay slooowly off.
Thank You Monk,Vilts,and Andrew Biggs and other cafe mambers for giving me advices .
I Learned a lot from this project and even though engraving looks poorly executed im proud of it,
I tried to go es deep as I could and as accurate as I could , I have no idea how exactly people engrave stainless steel without sharpening gravers every 3 minutes ,I used Lindsay 96 degree template and I kinda eyebaled how far graver should go to give me steeper face angle so it helped,graver tip lasted 50 seconds longer ,even with shading.
I finnished it With Charbonell printmaking ink to darken it.What kind of ink or paint others use on watches?
I would really appreciate your harshest critique to improve my work in my second year of engraving.
All in all im not impressed with my work (becouse my graver let me down and I really could do better job with crisper lines but at the same time im blown away with result of this project 5 months ago I couldnt even tell the difference between wood carving chisels and metal engraving chisels not even talking about cutting simple line so im quite happy that all this hard work starts to pay slooowly off.
Thank You Monk,Vilts,and Andrew Biggs and other cafe mambers for giving me advices .