{"id":66,"date":"2012-05-11T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-05-11T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T12:34:33","slug":"ornamental-hand-engraving-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/2012\/05\/11\/ornamental-hand-engraving-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Ornamental Hand Engraving Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-SsFJBcPtotU\/T6wTcKXucYI\/AAAAAAAADDI\/pcvQHkSBAxM\/s1600\/IMG_0705.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-SsFJBcPtotU\/T6wTcKXucYI\/AAAAAAAADDI\/pcvQHkSBAxM\/s320\/IMG_0705.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Several friends have asked to see my Ornamental Hand Engraving Samples from the class I took last week at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newapproachschool.com\/\">New Approach<\/a>. We worked on 2 by 2 inch squares of copper sheet metal. The patterns above and below are meant to go on a ring, but it&#8217;s best to first practice this technique on flat instead of a curved surface.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-pR3zTPleafk\/T6wTgMZz6-I\/AAAAAAAADDQ\/J60KZMKi-k0\/s1600\/IMG_0708.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-pR3zTPleafk\/T6wTgMZz6-I\/AAAAAAAADDQ\/J60KZMKi-k0\/s320\/IMG_0708.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Notice the pattern to the right has little berries on it, I liked that one a lot!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zlBF5Sq-nU0\/T6wTjvvr50I\/AAAAAAAADDY\/qRfpQbXR968\/s1600\/IMG_0706.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zlBF5Sq-nU0\/T6wTjvvr50I\/AAAAAAAADDY\/qRfpQbXR968\/s320\/IMG_0706.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">On the piece above I drew some circles to represent the sides of a ring and did a wheat leaf pattern up the left side and a 1\/2 wheat leaf up the right. These still need a great deal of practice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iP70Bx_3r9A\/T6wTnbvNjsI\/AAAAAAAADDg\/1Mc1K0ey7K0\/s1600\/IMG_0711.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iP70Bx_3r9A\/T6wTnbvNjsI\/AAAAAAAADDg\/1Mc1K0ey7K0\/s320\/IMG_0711.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">I did enjoy making flowers. The one in the center (the biggest one) is my favorite! I slipped with the graver and turned that slip into the stem of the flower.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pnDV3mdq-ps\/T6wTret99TI\/AAAAAAAADDo\/bigHwjY0xjw\/s1600\/IMG_0709.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pnDV3mdq-ps\/T6wTret99TI\/AAAAAAAADDo\/bigHwjY0xjw\/s320\/IMG_0709.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">We started practicing scroll patterns.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BaOH9ETUP5Q\/T6wTvRQItKI\/AAAAAAAADDw\/vRNRA51WEu4\/s1600\/IMG_0710.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BaOH9ETUP5Q\/T6wTvRQItKI\/AAAAAAAADDw\/vRNRA51WEu4\/s320\/IMG_0710.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"317\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">This flower design was an image transfer that we then traced with a scribe on the metal and then engraved.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-UNRmVSM0rrI\/T6wTy_P8ASI\/AAAAAAAADD4\/kcuOLNcsQ7s\/s1600\/IMG_0707.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-UNRmVSM0rrI\/T6wTy_P8ASI\/AAAAAAAADD4\/kcuOLNcsQ7s\/s320\/IMG_0707.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"308\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">The plate above is flowers our teacher engraved. He drew names and let us each pick our favorite plate. Luckily my name was drawn last so I got everything that was left. (2 plates and an inlay sample!) : )<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-z34VufdKCis\/T6wT2xpvMQI\/AAAAAAAADEA\/e6ppxsafJP0\/s1600\/IMG_0712.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-z34VufdKCis\/T6wT2xpvMQI\/AAAAAAAADEA\/e6ppxsafJP0\/s320\/IMG_0712.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">My sample of this pattern is the first picture. Compare the two and see how much cleaner the teacher&#8217;s lines are.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MFhx08NXYmY\/T6wT3QyqX3I\/AAAAAAAADEI\/XMg4Dn8T59A\/s1600\/IMG_0714.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MFhx08NXYmY\/T6wT3QyqX3I\/AAAAAAAADEI\/XMg4Dn8T59A\/s320\/IMG_0714.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">On the last day of class we were shown how to inlay one metal into another. This is copper into brass, and then our teacher engraved the copper. I thought it was really cool!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Engraving frankly is hard to explain without really showing what we did and showing the tools. It is difficult to master but truly a lot of fun.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Have a happy day!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several friends have asked to see my Ornamental Hand Engraving Samples from the class I took last week at\u00a0New Approach. We worked on 2 by 2 inch squares of copper sheet metal. The patterns above and below are meant to go on a ring, but it&#8217;s best to first practice this technique on flat instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}