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29 August 2023, 03:59

Scrollcutter

Letters and letters and more letters

Here's a recent job done for a client of Reto Buehler. Very nice metal work BTW.

29 August 2023, 04:19

Michael Robinson

Superb work!

Bravo!

29 August 2023, 17:31

dogcat

Yipes! Wow! Other superlatives!!

30 August 2023, 08:30

bwanamrm

Exquisite engraving! I would be thrilled to see the finished rifle...

On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling

Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.

30 August 2023, 09:09

Austin Hunter

WOW

"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan

"Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians."

Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness.

30 August 2023, 09:09

Peter Connan

Beautiful! And a nice caliber to boot.

30 August 2023, 19:34

Scrollcutter

quote:
Exquisite engraving! I would be thrilled to see the finished rifle...

Me too!!!

31 August 2023, 00:30

gunmaker

Always top shelf Roger

31 August 2023, 01:59

Scrollcutter

quote:
Beautiful! And a nice caliber to boot.

I had a customer back in the 80's who shot nothing but doubles. His favorite was a W-R droplock (what's not to like) in .318 for mulies and elk. 250gr bullet at 2500 fps, if I remember right.

31 August 2023, 16:39

Brandon.Gleason

Beautiful. The grip cap is so clean, I love it.

Newbie question, but does the gold inlay suffer any ill or need any special touch up when blued? Or do those parts stay in the white?

01 September 2023, 21:50

setters5

If rust blued, the gold gets slightly tarnished, can be cleaned up with a pencil eraser, caustic blued it comes out fine.

02 September 2023, 01:56

2152hq

Beautiful Lettering and Inlay.

One of the most difficult things to do in Engraving and look perfect IMO.

FWIW..Don't Express Rust Blue with any of the old formulas that have Mercury in it (usually Mercury Bichloride I think it is).

The Mercury with Plate itself to the gold (or brass, copper,etc) very solidly and you will have silver looking inlays.
It does not remove easily.

02 September 2023, 03:00

Scrollcutter

What setters5 said. I don't think the gold actually tarnishes, but the rust gets embedded with the carding process. When I rust blued, I would clean the gold with a qtip and flitz. Most likely the same outcome with setters5 process. In fact, the eraser might work better.

02 September 2023, 03:02

Scrollcutter

quote:
Beautiful Lettering and Inlay.

One of the most difficult things to do in Engraving and look perfect IMO.

Thanks. The cocking piece lettering layout was a bit of a bugger.

02 September 2023, 04:38

setters5

Yes, tarnish was a poor way to describe it. I also use a bit of simichrome.

03 September 2023, 06:45

custombolt

Your finest work yet in my opinion especially the cocking piece. I assume you had to "cheat" on that spacing a bit.(?) One of my tool projects with curve set letters did not look right with equal spacing. So, I had to improvise. Bravo. A solid 10.

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Originally posted by Scrollcutter:
quote:
Beautiful Lettering and Inlay.

One of the most difficult things to do in Engraving and look perfect IMO.

Thanks. The cocking piece lettering layout was a bit of a bugger.

04 September 2023, 01:55

Scrollcutter

quote:
Your finest work yet in my opinion especially the cocking piece. I assume you had to "cheat" on that spacing a bit.(?) One of my tool projects with curve set letters did not look right with equal spacing. So, I had to improvise. Bravo. A solid 10.

Yes equal spacing doesn't ever work. Even on straight line lettering. I think they use the term Kerning. I'd guess that layout is 30% of the job on typical lettering work. More like 50% on the cocking piece.

06 September 2023, 03:26

SDH

All beautifully accomplished, congrats Roger~~

06 September 2023, 05:50

BaxterB

Very nice!

Curious - appx what point font size is that on the floorplate?

07 September 2023, 08:27

Sabretooth

Roger did some engraving work for me on my 7 Mauser. The guy does good work....Highly recommended. And, a pleasure to do business with. I'll also say as well: the engraving work looks great

07 September 2023, 19:06

GMyers

I agree with everyone that the lettering is very nicely done. However, assuming that is all the same rifle, maybe a bit overdone. I don't know why you would need to have the caliber engraved in three places.

08 September 2023, 04:19

kda55

Good point. At least it doesn't tell the owner how many cartridges it holds on the floorplate. Beautiful work all around.

10 September 2023, 01:30

custombolt

The customer gets what the customer wants. Preference aside, all engraving work was done to perfection.

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Originally posted by GMyers:
I agree with everyone that the lettering is very nicely done. However, assuming that is all the same rifle, maybe a bit overdone. I don't know why you would need to have the caliber engraved in three places.