Engraved watch
It’s been a while since my last “serious” engraving project and I needed something to practice on. Recently I ordered a cheap watch from Mini In The Box specially for this purpose. OnRead More…
“Skype” Zippo
Sometimes happens that people leave companies, even Skype. This Zippo was engraved as a goodbye gift for one such occasion. Pattern in the corners is standard English scroll.
Bright cut Zippo engraving
Here’s my latest Zippo engraving done on chrome model. Style is called bright cut, or actually a modified version of it. Surprisingly enough, it was quite easy to cut through the chromeRead More…
Signet ring engraving
A project I’ve been wanting to do a long time – to engrave a signet ring. So finally one client came along who wanted exactly that and I was more than happyRead More…
Winchester Zippo, v13
This is my latest engraved Zippo with Winchester ’73 theme. Surrounding it is my standard fine scroll. Zippo is brass armor model.
Nude Zippos
Some time ago I was commissioned to engrave 2 nude Zippos. Customer sent me the photos he wanted engraved and I was to translate this to the metal. As I just cameRead More…
Visiting Italian Masters, Day 4 and 5
Here’s the last installment on my Italian Engravers tour posts. Day 4 – Visiting Venice On Thursday we visited Venice, but as this isn’t engraving related, then I won’t spend too muchRead More…
Visiting Italian Masters, Day 3
Third day of the trip was promising to be fun, because I’ve seen the works of 2 studios we were going to visit and like usually with Italians, they were top notch.Read More…
Visiting Italian Master engravers, day 2
Second day of out trip was the one I knew to expect the most. Both Gianfranco Pedersoli and Firmo and Francesca Fracassi were known to my by their books I had. OfRead More…
Visiting Italian Master engravers, day 1
In the beginning of June I took part in an organized tour to visit Italian Master engravers in Gardone Val Trompia valley. The whole thing was put together with Elena Michel LamboyRead More…