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Gun Engraving Blog

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My purpose is simply to promote true hand gun engraving. The logic of true traditional hand gun engraving will be explored as a practical method and as a movement.

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  • The Engraver's Workplace

    Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 01:59

    Setting Up Shop.For the gun engraver, the workplace consists of two environments:1) the natural environment of the wild animals and foliage the engraver depicts2) the studio or shop within 4 enclosed walls1) The Natural EnvironmentAfter nearly 20 yea...

  • Pattern Designing

    Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 01:24

    Selected Writings Of William Morris Abbreviated and Annotatedas Applicable to the Art of theTraditional Hand Engraving of Guns CONTINUEDBy the word pattern-design, of which I have undertaken to speak to you to-night, I mean the ornamentation of a sur...

  • William Morris Ideals in Twenty First Century America as Applied to Gun Engraving.

    Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 02:48 in google37fe27325f375300.html

    This is an opinion about hand air impact tools for gun engraving coupled with a 20 power microscope. I believe that this is a relevant method. I do not believe that these alternative methods of true hand engraving with a hammer and chisel should be...

  • The Decline Of The Artisan As An Artist

    Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 23:31 in gun engraving, hand engraving

    TECHNOLOGY AND THE DECLINE OF THE ARTISAN AS AN ARTIST Coursing through Oliver Goldsmith's (1730?–1774) poem, The Deserted Village (1770) one may view the loss of dignity and quality of life in a small village by the industrial revolution.Goldsmith...

  • Art and Labour

    Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 21:48 in gun engraver, gun engraving, william morris, engraving art

    Selected Writings Of William Morris Abbreviated and Annotatedas Applicable to the Art of the Traditional Hand Engraving of Guns. by Stephen L. Olin, Gun Engraver.Selected quotes from Art and Labour Full text follows."...by art, I do not mean only pic...

  • The Lesser Arts of Life

    Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 14:58 in gun engraver, gun engraving

    Selected Writings Of William Morris Abbreviated and Annotatedas Applicable to the Art of theTraditional Hand Engraving of Guns CONTINUEDSelected quotes from The Lesser Arts of Life by Stephen OlinFull text follows...the lesser arts, (ed. note, the "l...

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