Engraved Practice Plate for side by side....

[Jim Small]

Some few threads back there was the mention of swapping smoke prints. Ray Cover introduced the idea. I recall everyone was in favor. I was wondering ?where do we stand on that idea?

I have included a practice plate of a project that hopefully will be forth coming. It has been my tradition that when a client presents a project of such magnitude I will often create a practice plate. It takes a little longer than a drawing?but it gives the client a good understand of your capabilities. Below is a portion of a side plate that will be part of the project. I am drawn to this style of engraving. I believe that you could say a style from the early 1900's, maybe late 1800's forward. I do, as you know, other styles of engraving simply because it puts the bread on the table. I will keep you up to date on this project and how it turns out.

Maybe Ray can tell us how to get started on the smoke prints?

Jim

[ron p. nott]

Jim that is very impresing I realy like your engraving and each time I see your work I learn more and I am inspired to do better in my own styles . thanks for the photo and could you give us a close up so we can study it more ... ron

[RBSlaughter]

Pure Class...Excellent design and execution.. Way to go Jim..Best, Rich

[Joe Mason]

That is something. I really like your layout. I enjoy studying the work shown on this site and there is a lot of neat stuff on this one to study. Thanks for showing it Jim.

Joe

[ron p. nott]

Jim another place I go to for old style engraving is the old paper money and bank notes the engraving on these notes are very beautiful and to think that the engraver back in the 1800 and early 1900 did all of this work by hand and with out the magification that we have today .. there are a lot of sites on old bank notes also e-bay has some if you are looking for the old style of engraving ...

[Ray Cover Jr]

Jim,

Please do include a print of this for me. I really like you border work and layout on this.

Ray

[Jim Small]

Thanks

Ron you are right on when it come to old bank notes.... Great resource.

I look at these old engravings and then try to modify them to my liking. For some reason I can't get enough of this stuff. It's, like Ron, hard to believe that most of this engraving was done with the naked eye. Some of the English stuff is mind-boggling.

I am not a good smoke printer but Ray I will give it a try?

Comments form you guys is a real ego builder and you don't know how much I appreciate it.

Thanks
Jim