Thanks Mountain Dave, Mr. Talbert and Mr. Roller, Brian, Daryl, Caster and everyone else. DAve, I practiced lines and swerves on couple small plates. I can’t give you any advice on engraving because I would be talking out of my @ss. I don’t know enough to help you out and I’d probably hurt you more than help. I really didn’t practice a whole lot. The parting tool helped me with what little engraving I did. I used the same sort of motion with a small hammer and square graver. I studied a couple examples in Shumway and from the KRA disk. I looked at lots of examples of the type of look I was going for for this type of rifle. I’d take the class if you get the chance. Having the chance to watch an expert work and give you pointers is as good as it gets. When an expert on here gives you advice, read it over and over. There’s a lot of experience and knowledge in their advice and you can pull a lot of information from everything they say. Never blow off any of the experts advice or comments and don’t take offense from things they say.
