Archive for November, 2008
Learning English scroll
Posted by Viljo Marrandi in Art, engraving on November 28, 2008
There’s a scroll style called English scroll. Probably the earliest type of scrolls of them all. I wanted to learn it the other day, but it’s a real trial and error when you don’t know how to make the cuts or what are the principal rules of it.
But here are my tries.The first one has some kind of similarity to English scroll, but not really.
The second one is already more like it, but still not quite there yet.
Second one with ruler – in real life it’s actually quite small.
Memory stick winner
Posted by Viljo Marrandi in engraving on November 21, 2008
The memory stick winner is known now. I used rand function from ruby shell to determine the winner and my darling wife was looking over me so I couldn’t cheat:
[21:54:47] comp:~ irb
>> rand(24) + 1
=> 8
The winner is commenter number 8, who is Uthay. I will contact you and send out the memory stick as soon as I get your address.
Thank you all for participating! Watch this space to see the next competition (might be a good idea to subscribe to feed or email updates).
Next time I’m back with more delicious prize.
Memory stick giveaway
Posted by Viljo Marrandi in engraving on November 13, 2008
UPDATE: giveaway is now over. Thanks for participating.
Did that get your attention? Good, because now is the chance to get free hand engraved 2GB USB memory stick. To participate simply leave a comment to this post stating “Me wants it” or anything with your email so I can contact the winner.
On 21st of Nov 2008 I will pick a random commenter and send the memory stick to him/her. Commenting once is enough, thank you.
This is what you are getting (measures 2.6×1.5cm).
If you made this far into the post I must say that this stick was a testpiece to see how good it is to engrave one. Conclusion – not that good. The metal is extremely soft and it’s very hard to do fine engraving. Also, I use acetone for design transfer and this melts the plastic. You can see from photos the problematic places.
But hey, it’s free and loaded with few of my knifemaking and engraving videos.
Next victim is either iPod Shuffle or spoon… Hmm.
Graver sharpening video
Posted by Viljo Marrandi in engraving on November 7, 2008
Some time ago I agreed to do a series of videos for Steve Lindsay for his graver sharpening system. This video is about how to use template for flat gravers. At the end there’s also few shots of how I do script lettering on Zippo.
View on Vimeo.
