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  1. Feb 18, 2008 #11
    maddie

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    re: Craft Works : Metal Engraving Instructions

    Thanks sriniketan, Prabha, anooch and Sudhat for your encouraging words :)maddie
     
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    Hi Bhuvana

    I have painted the sheet in the end. But the same technique you have told me and it was called etching. It meant scrapping the paint rather than the metal sheet. I hope i am right. I have posted how i have done engraving in my previous reply. Thanks a lot for your suggestion.

    Regards
    Maddie
     
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  3. Feb 27, 2008 #13
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    Hi maddie

    Sorry for the late reply...

    Hey you say that i give suggestion to you... U are QUEEN OF ARTS... Dont ever use such words ya...

    Let me post my picture then you give your opinion... ACtually i too did engraved the metal sheet... Anyway let me post my picture... The person took classes them as engraving, i haven't till date heard about etching? Have you tried them, if so post your pictures...


    bye take care

    bhuvana
     
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    Hi Bhuvana, I'm not any queen or anything :)... I just try out different types of artwork, that's allBow... but the world of art is like an ocean, we always find something new to learn that we had never known before ...

    Coming to your query, I believe what you have done is also metal engraving... the only thing I must have done different was to trace the image on to the metal sheet without painting it, and then engraving it on the sheet... But yes, I might be able to tell you once I see your work, and I'm really looking forward to it...

    By the way, I have also posted something about etching here -> Etching

    Hope you find it helpful... :)

    Regards,

    Maddie.
     
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    Hi maddie

    How are you? Will send the pic in one or two days.... My digicam has some problem, thats why the delay....

    Looking forward for your comment....

    bye take care

    bhuvana
     
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    Craft Works - Metal Engraving

    The only one metal engraving that I had done. It looks simple but takes lots of effort and pain.
     

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    hi aparnasanthosh.
    its awesome.please keep posting more of your works.
    padyala.
     
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    Hi aparna,

    Its great.......
     
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    It is simple but very nice Aparna. I know how starain you might have been taken because I leaqrned it once and now i forget. Any how nice work. Go ahead.
    viji
     
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  10. Mar 15, 2008 #20
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    how to make metal engraving

    Aluminum sheet
    Engraving Tools
    Ball point pen
    Tracing paper
    Design
    Black board paint

    Method
    Keep ready a picture that you what to emboss.cut the plywood tp the siz of the picture giving 5-10 inches on all sides to centre it. Cut the metal sheet 2-3 inches larger than the plywood so that it can be wrapped around the plywood when done.

    Tape the picture to the metal sheet and applying force draw with a ball point pen over the trace so that the impression of the design comes out on the metal sheet prominently. Remove the picture when done.

    With the carving tool carve all the outlines of the picture towards one direction without spoiling the outline. So that the picture will have a perfect look. (The tools is to be held in the palm, turning the write to the right and left during each press, so that a designed zig zag kind of a border is drawn. This needs a little practice, so you could practice on a small piece of metal earlier before proceeding with the final carving.) To make the art attractive paint the back ground of the picture with black board paint. .
     
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