Metal Script Engraving

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Everyone I can find uses lasers to engrace metal nowadays.  It isn't nearly as nice as hand done work.  It's not very deep and looks like it is scratched on very shallowly.  Also, they can't engrave the concave inner surfaces of a pocket watch lid.

 

Does anyone do that sort of work any more?  Rachel Wells did, but she died.  I can't find Kelly Laster anymore.  Longline Charley Glackman did very nice work, too., but he also passed away.

 

Are any of you talented in the trade?  I'd like to keep it in The Family, so to speak. 

 

[Rip Snorter]

Search this, montana firearm hand engraver and there are several, haven't used them but most of my Montana experiences have been authentic.

[Blackwater 53393]

Find Jim Downing or Graver Bill!!

 

Graver Bill is his SASS alias. Real name is Billy Bates.

 

 

[Wild Eagle]

Aspen Filly does beautiful engraving work.  I think she's on here sometimes.  I know she's on the new costuming forum.

[Sedalia Dave]

20 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Find Jim Downing or Graver Bill!!

 

Graver Bill is his SASS alias. Real name is Billy Bates.

 

 

 

Jim Downing's alias is Scratch.

 

https://thegunengraver.com/

[Rye Miles #13621]

Jim Downing is great!! 

[Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L]

Aspen Filly or Jim Downing either one can do what you’re looking for. They were both vendors at Land Run and both normally set up at EOT in Arizona, so you could work with them in person if you don’t want to mail it.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Well, it looks like my good fortune is still working.  I got a message from the one of the medical staff at the VA (A shooter and wife of a shooter, and mother of three other shooters...and not a cowboy in the lot) and was sent to a jewelry shop three blocks from my home.

 

Their engraver does laser work, hand engraving, three kinds of power engraving, and some inlay work.  Very reasonably priced and the work he's done that I got to see is wonderful.

 

I'll take a test piece in this week and give you report.

 

Thank for all the tips

 

BTW, it's Afterglow Jewelers on Florentine jut around the corner north of Fry's.  Stop by and we can get a cup of coffee just down the road.

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

I watched Aspin Filly and Jim Downing , aka Scratch , both at CAC one year 

 

 Both are true artists 

 

  Chickasaw Bill 

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

Jim Downing did my Bond derringer. Excellent work!