Hand Engraving by Sarah Ladd - Fine art engraving, pure gold inlay, diamond setting

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DocJekl said:
Sarah, your craftsmanship is stunning. Anybody would be proud to carry something that you’ve produced. That engraving of the buck bull elk on a starry night is phenomenal!
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I'm living in Colorado, so you'd think I'd get it right. I knew it was an Elk, but used the wrong term for the male form. Thanks.
 
RayseM said:
The pattern has texture? Is that to "hold" the inlay?
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Inlay can be done a few ways but my preferred method is undercut via displacement, which holds the edges, and a series of small triangular "hooks" that hold the gold down to the bottom. When hammered in, the gold smushes into these hooks and the displaced edge gets hammered down over the undercuts.
 

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tiguy7 said:
That looks a bit like a dental amalgam filling. Do they still do those?
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If memory serves, there are advancements in technologies to fill and match better than amalgam but that it is still used in fringe cases.

Goldsmithing, historically, has rode on the coattails of dental tool technologies for a couple hundred years. There is so much overlap, in fact, that goldsmiths are most likely to switch professions into dentistry than anything else. I can't say if the folks who went into dentistry first ever roll over to goldsmithing. I've never seen it. Probably because goldsmiths don't, and will never, make "go on a yearly lion killing tour in Africa" money. (We don't come even close to their rate of seppuku, though. Those dental folks are not happy campers) ... at any rate, I only know this tidbit from following dental technologies and discussion boards.
 
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I'm here with some unconventional ornament. My husband plays this card game. I guess it is very "trendy" to make changes to the cards and do your own art on them... if you are good. I did this card in bold american scroll, and titled it "Hand Engraver's Ornamental Sol Ring". It's not your typical hand engraver's fare but I thought some here might enjoy it.

I painted this card with a very tiny paintbrush by hand under my microscope. It took me the afternoon, but only after a trial card that ended in failure, that I learned a lot from.
 

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SarahLadd said:
I'm here with some unconventional ornament. My husband plays this card game. I guess it is very "trendy" to make changes to the cards and do your own art on them... if you are good. I did this card in bold american scroll, and titled it "Hand Engraver's Ornamental Sol Ring". It's not your typical hand engraver's fare but I thought some here might enjoy it.

I painted this card with a very tiny paintbrush by hand under my microscope. It took me the afternoon, but only after a trial card that ended in failure, that I learned a lot from.
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All that scroll work is yours? Very nice!
 
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