Rich L
Member
Here's the YouTube video some asked for:
Rose engine cutting on a fountain pen finial - YouTube
It's clearly not meant to be any descriptive tutorial or anything like that and it's hard to see the flycutter but I hope the concept is more easily absorbed. This one is actually on silver and it was different for two reasons:
1) the end of the finial was domed instead of flat so that makes for a deeper cut, and
2) silver is gummier than the nickel silver I used before and that makes for increased tool marks. They polish up to a large extent but the effect is still there. It's not something I wanted but I'm not sure I don't like it. (lots of negatives in that statement that sum up neutral and perhaps positive )
Next time I'll flatten the end off more.
Pictures of a couple views on a solid silver pen. In the finial decoration, everything is rounded - it's just the reflections make some of it look like there are angles.
Cheers,
Rich
Rose engine cutting on a fountain pen finial - YouTube
It's clearly not meant to be any descriptive tutorial or anything like that and it's hard to see the flycutter but I hope the concept is more easily absorbed. This one is actually on silver and it was different for two reasons:
1) the end of the finial was domed instead of flat so that makes for a deeper cut, and
2) silver is gummier than the nickel silver I used before and that makes for increased tool marks. They polish up to a large extent but the effect is still there. It's not something I wanted but I'm not sure I don't like it. (lots of negatives in that statement that sum up neutral and perhaps positive )
Next time I'll flatten the end off more.
Pictures of a couple views on a solid silver pen. In the finial decoration, everything is rounded - it's just the reflections make some of it look like there are angles.
Cheers,
Rich