the finished horse scrimshaw

"Waiting for the Boss"
scrimshaw on pre-ban elephant ivory
1 x 1-7/8 inches

For sale, this piece will go to Jackson Hole with me in September.

Love it! :-)

July 28 work in progress

Nope, not done.

Heavy-hearted tonight... The engraving world has lost one of its bright spots today, one of the kindest and most generous men I've ever known, Ron N. I treasure the time I was able to spend talking to him at Blade Show, and the advice he'd given me over the years. Damn, life is unpredictable. May he rest in peace. He will be missed by many. :-(

....sigh.......

I found this little frog hopping around under the engraving bench tonight. It was kinda skinny, poor little thing may have been indoors for a while! I put it out back with all the other ones frogs that congregate around the kitchen window every night.

July 27 work in progress

I hope the pink t-shirt doesn't throw you too badly for a loop. It was just that I happened to have the engraving under the scope when I was ready to take pics, rather than the black background you usually see!

Yes, I'm trying my hand (uh, literally) at engraving again. I'm a tad jealous that a bunch of my friends are soon going to be in Kansas for the two-week Grand Master engraving class learning Italian bulino engraving, so it's inspiring me to try it again. I definitely don't have the comfort level with this that I do with scrim! This is on steel. Pencil lead is shown for scale. The pic is taken through the microscope, so you're seeing what I see when I work.

July 20 work in progress

This will be a pendant set in gold (it's a commissioned piece):

This will be framed:

I am going to start on another metal engraving. I neeeeeeeeeeed to practice. I think if I'm not "gung ho" into metal engraving by the time I see the engraver crowd again in January they are going to disown me. ;-)

July 15 work in progress

It's 1 inch tall and 1-7/8 inches long. I'm still thinking about the title. This is something that's been on my list of "drawings I should do" for quite a number of years. The horse is one that I photographed about a zillion years ago, and the background, well, you'll see! Anyway, if it can be drawn it can be scrimmed! And what I need now is to do a lot of scrim. ;-)