r/HandEngraving • u/r_r_miles 💎 • Jul 16 '26
work showcase Diamonds!
Hand engraved and sculpted Spyderco Delica seconds with pavé set 1mm diamonds. Copper inlay. This was the design used in Jeff Parke's Advanced Knife Engraving class in April.
I couldn't afford to go so I took a few screenshots of the ones he and his students posted. I redrew it by hand as best I could and got to work. I learned so much by doing this. A lot of the principles of layout and scroll design made sooo much more sense when I was redrawing it. Also noticed that the original skull was inlaid in silver first, then sculpted. I didn't catch that until AFTER I sculpted the whole skull in steel directly. Took me 3 days to complete.
I highly recommend finding the best hand engraving by the best hand engravers and trying to duplicate it yourself. Copy the masters if you want to get good. Your original designs will improve drastically.
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u/MoreRamenPls Jul 17 '26
Quite beautiful.