Hand Engraved Copper Bottle Stoppers - florals

[Bob in SF]

Some friends heard I was hand engraving again, and requested some floral motif bottle stoppers.

I like Ruth Niles' leaf-shaped bottle stopper fittings.

Steps:
18 gauge copper shapes cut with a scroll saw 3mm beyond the leaf fittings' edges; then lightly domed on a hardwood dapping block.
Cleaned well with acetone.
Hand engraved freehand (without graphic reference materials) using a graver ground to shape with Lindsay's universal template.
Painted with Copic and Blick brands alcohol inks, colors then heat set with a heat gun.
Domed with ArtResin epoxy, cured x 1 week.
Engravings then epoxied to both sides of the Niles leaf stopper fittings:

Happy Sunday to all - Bob

 

[Charlie_W]

Wow!! " From the Garden"
These are outstanding Bob! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Bob in SF]

Heartfelt thanks Charlie!

More fun ahead.

 

[Jim15]

Awesome work.

 

[MRDucks2]

Fantastic, Bob. I do not intend this in an offensive way, but you are just not normal. Lol. Your artistic talent across any given media is amazing. Thank you posting.


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[TonyL]

Beautiful work! I have run out of superlatives.

 

[Bob in SF]

Many thanks Jim, Mike, and Tony!

Mike - Glad and grateful for your "not normal" description! - a little etymology:

Etymology: < classical Latin normālis right-angled, in post-classical Latin also conforming to or governed by a rule (4th–5th cent.) < norma + -ālis. Compare French normal (1450–65 in Middle French in an isolated attestation in verbe normal (compare sense A. 1), then from mid 18th cent., earliest in ligne normale (1753; compare sense A. 5), and subsequently in more general senses 'which serves as a model' (1793 in école normale, 1803 in more general use), 'ordinary, regular' (1830s); compare earlier anormal adj.), Italian normale according to the norm, routine, predictable, common, boring (1683 in sense 'perpendicular, orthogonal', 1831 in sense 'customary, expected'), Portuguese normal (1844), Spanish normal (1855).

More fun ahead - Bob