Oooooohhhh my goodness this takes a long time. It is my own fault that I fell behind, so I'm working very hard to catch up. 12 hour days at the microscope until this is done. I have even less of a life than usual right now. ;-) But these grips are only the first part, there is still a very large knife... There is serious incentive to be done by the end of the month and I'm trying!! I really don't know if I can pull that off though. Realistically, probably not, but I'll still try. You can't rush scrimshaw, and there's no way I would cut corners or sacrifice quality. Most important thing here is to make the absolute BEST work I can do, whatever it takes. I have a great client and he deserves the best scrimshaw I can possibly create. :-)
The pistol grips are getting darn close to being done. I'm working on the background maps now, shading the ocean. The Europe side is not finished. Then I still need to do the lettering (the names of the generals) and probably tweak a few shadows here and there. I really wanted to finish the oceans tonight but I am going to go nuts if I don't stop for the day. :-)
Those are looking FANTASTIC Katherine! I'll be looking to see them when finished.
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Katherine,
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Now, will the pistol itself be engraved?(perhaps some inlay?)
Fan-Dang-Tastic for sure.
Aaron
Thanks you guys! Yes, is pistol itself is being engraved, no doubt with lots of gold on it, though I haven't seen it and I don't have any idea what subject matter is being depicted. Funny things, these collaborative projects, we don't always know what the other is up to. :-)
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