Finished my drawing for my presentation at @ray.cover ’s T.H.E.R.E. My talk is going to be about my process of composition and my thought process during. I recorded the entire thing so there will be an active example of what I’m speaking to. I’ll be speaking 11am Saturday, June 27th. If for some reason you don’t know about it, head over to rays page and get the info. I will also be selling prints of the shirt design I did for the event ($50) Stickers will be included with prints. Are you going?

I Had fun doing these G5 TI Norseman Pocketclips for @johngrimsmoknives @grimsmo.official . I’m really looking forward to doing some more stuff with them in the future. Being my first pieces working with them, I. Wanted to flex a little and show a few different techniques and styles. Gotta love everything about 24k gold, except the price right now. Haha. Thanks for looking, i hope everyone is making wonderful things.

And this is my preferred way to get my precise layout for designing. I then take accurate reference measurements. Different knife scales for some future projects.

Sorry for the repost, I realized the photo was a little under exposed. I thought it was the brightness on my phone. Retook the photo. I think my love of animals is starting to show. What can I say, I really enjoy doing pet portraits. I had the honor of doing Chuckanut here on a client supplied piece that already had the other side engraved. It was a lot of fun pushing the values and playing with light. Backlit subjects aren’t always the easiest. Click through and the last photo is the one I worked from. On another note, I shouldn’t even be awake yet. Got about an hour and a half of sleep, so that’s fun. As always, thanks for looking.

It showed up today! I cannot express how excited I am that I finally own a physical copy of this book. This is one I’ve wanted for quite sometime. It’s hard to find and when you do it’s typically very expensive. I somehow found this one at a decent price, one I couldn’t pass up. As always, no book is truly mine until it gets the stamps.

Finished another Ryuichi Kawamura handmade beauty, for a wonderful client. Some small, inlayed, relief and intricate scrolls. It was a lot of fun and I’m super grateful for being able to do this kind of stuff for folks.

Here’s some very upclose and personal photos of the fossils project. If I show it complete, I’ll likely be shadowbanned like before. This is the second one, did a different one as well. I can share now as it’s launched and seems to have sold immediately. Bulino techniques on the grips and sculpting is n the slide. No inlays or wild treatments. It was fun to play with many textures.

Here’s some very uoclose and personal photos of the fossils project. If I show it complete, I’ll likely be shadowbanned like before. This is the first one, did a different one as well. I can share now as it’s launched and seems to have sold immediately. Bulino techniques on the grips and sculpting is n the slide. No inlays or wild treatments.

Some realtime cutting and some sped up clips. Outlining gold inlays, for me, is extremely stressful. So here’s me working through that stress. The rule marks on the second video are MM as well. This is very small.

The fun Norseman I was asked to engrave for a client. @johngrimsmoknives @grimsmo.official made the Norseman. High mirror blad polish by @steve_miller_man Great photos from @sharpbycoop as always. Pretty cool a few hands were involved in this one.

Where it is and where it began. This month marks 7 years since I picked up my first graver and taught myself. I fell for this form the moment I touched it. I could see the potential, only now am I started to feel like I’m starting to slightly accomplish what I see in my head. I’ve had a lot of wonderful people in my corner to help me along this way. I cannot thank you all enough, you know who you are. I appreciate you all. Thank you.

Had the honor of being asked to do some dog portraits (Avery & Laredo) on a beauty of a Ryuichi Kawamura knife. These are quite small and fun to do. Got one more to do if these with different design elements. I’m very grateful for my wonderful clients. Hope everyone is doing well and making beautiful things.

Since I can’t show what I been working on for the last two months, here’s the display I completed “on my days off”this weekend. Holds all my tattoo machines, pops, and my favorite banknote plates. Still being added to, but it’s back to the grind. Hope everyone is well. #independentengraving #scroll #scrollwork #jewelry #mensjewelry womensjewelry Shuhari supportsmallbusiness handmade metalengraving metalengraver whatwedoissecret quecke engraving engraver engravingbyquecke metalengraver handengraver handengraving bespoke

No creating today. Just hanging out.

Recently I’ve had a few folks reach out about my photography and scope camera setups. I figured I’d share what I use. This might be a long post… I have strong opinions when it comes to working in the visual arts and being able to properly capture what you do. I used film for years, so I was forced to learn. 99% of my photos are not edited except cropping to 8X10, which is what I prefer. Do you need any of this stuff, not at all. Even more so with what phones can do today, but I love cameras and photography. You just need a basic understanding of light, composition, and depth of field, the rest can be learned through practice and reading. The small camera (Fuji X100) is my point and shoot I tend to bring with me everywhere, and not used for my engraving. I LOVE this camera, it’s been my dedicated B&W camera most of its life with me. I was one of those kids who wanted to take photography in high school, but I couldn’t afford to, nor was I a good kid back then… So when I got my first film camera I fell in love. I learned taking pictures of my tattoos, which are difficult to capture correctly, and I shot a lot of black and white then as well. Brands don’t matter, what matters is having what you’ll actually use the most. More time behind it, means more practice and understanding. I’m not going to go through what my settings are, because they change. Engravings tend to be reflective, high contrast, and difficult to capture, so I have to adapt to almost every one a little differently. My lightbox setup doesn’t work well for larger objects. But most of my work is small, so it works for me. I also understand my photos tend to be “moody”, but I feel it captures the feeling of my work well. (Continued in comments)