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Keep talking guys.
I'm picking up allot of cool tips here. Thanks __________________ DarrenP.Reeves Custom Hand Engraving Billings, Montana 1-406-245-3444 Knife in Avatar Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. |
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Andy the more I looked at that knife that is sweet how close you got the inlay to the mother of pearl. Not an easy task. Did you use a graver and then the high speed hand-piece for undercut or just the hand-piece?
Mike C. |
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Yes a combination of both Mike. Under the incredible power of the microscope the border looks huge
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I was on vaction and missed the pohto.
Can you post it again. Joe |
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The photos were on my webhosting server which unfortunately suffered a major crash yesterday. I am not certain when it will be back up and running. I may have to recreate the links at some point. Sorry about the lapse. It has affected my email as well :evil
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Jim, Thanks a bunch for the info! I have always loved little rows of gold dots, even tapering down in size. Been so long since I inlayed any gold this will be like starting over lol. Never used much gold anymore since developing the color engraving. I do have a set of beading tools in different sizes Julie Warenski told me about for doing the beaded borders but seperate little dots are way cooler. Gonna have to give it a try on an AKI knife.
Thanks again! |
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I may have missed it, but has anyone addressed annealing of the gold wire yet? Some do it with only a Bic lighter!
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Robert,
I think we bantered that one around a short time ago but rather than look for it again here's the skinny. I just hit the gold wire with a propane torch flame set fairly low. You want to bring it to a red hot briefly and let it cool slowly. It's no big deal. Just don't let it get too hot or it will melt right down the wire I will use this technique to create a small gold ball which I can flatten to fill small roundish pockets like at the head of a scroll. If you search the forum you can find other info on the topic. But that's it in a nutshell. |
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Robert
The annealing temperature for fine gold is 400 degrees F, 18kt 1000 - 1100 degrees F, 14kt 1200. Fine gold will go limp very quick kinda like fried onions. That doesn't sound right Mike Cirelli Last edited by MCirelli; 08-29-2005 at 11:07 PM. |
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Watch it Mike!
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sorry! Is that better
Last edited by MCirelli; 08-29-2005 at 11:08 PM. |
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