This maybe an entirely different discussion topic, but I would love to see what members on here designed themselves..
Has anyone ever made their own carving design? I am always too wimpy and like to use originals as examples and guides.
To do this right you have to have a good understanding of Baroque and Rococo or its going to look too modern and out of place.
Wallace Gusler goes into this in his carving video. Carving on a late 19th c bed head board is not going to be right for a Kentucky rifle. Remembering the carving in furniture was going out of style before 1800 and the carved furniture of the 1890s was 90-130 years after the art forms essentially were killed off by fashion.
It also apparent on some mid +- 19th c original rifles that someone with no training just drew something on the stock and carved it. Usually the whole gun shows a lack of training or eye for line.
I have invented carving here and there on rifles but the idea is to follow original designs. So I will invariably go through some books, find something I like then modify it to make it fit. Maybe combining elements from more than one original.
I probably have a rifle here that might have a design I drew out and used but I doubt it. But if I follow the art forms of the time period its going to look like something from the period anyway.
