Post by rWt on Jan 2, 2023 6:05:28 GMT -5
Engraving is a matter of personal taste. Sometimes I feel it adds and other times I feel it detracts or subtracts from an item's appearance. The wide range of engraving styles (and costs) can provide a choice for just about any taste.
I know guys who have bought side by side shotguns because of who engraved them. One friend bought a pair of Holland & Holland shotguns for that reason. The engraver, a man from Belgium, was his "grail" engraver. He told me that the engraver would take at least a month to engrave all the parts of one shotgun and receive $30,000 for the job-more if the job entailed gold inlays. This was several years ago. Who knows what the cost would be today.
Westley Richards has offered a "Gold Name" version of their shotguns. It's devoid of engraving other than their name, which is engraved with gold inlay. It has always looked too plain to me. On the other hand, engraving under case colors can look funky to me.
Here is a double lock-back folding knife that P.J.Tomes made for me that I recently got back from Steve Dunn, who engraved it. It has American scroll as its design core. The photo doesn't do it justice. It was my first experience working with an engraver. I sent him some photos of styles I liked and he took it from there.
I'm still getting used to it. Kinda like seeing a woman wearing makeup for the first time.
I know guys who have bought side by side shotguns because of who engraved them. One friend bought a pair of Holland & Holland shotguns for that reason. The engraver, a man from Belgium, was his "grail" engraver. He told me that the engraver would take at least a month to engrave all the parts of one shotgun and receive $30,000 for the job-more if the job entailed gold inlays. This was several years ago. Who knows what the cost would be today.
Westley Richards has offered a "Gold Name" version of their shotguns. It's devoid of engraving other than their name, which is engraved with gold inlay. It has always looked too plain to me. On the other hand, engraving under case colors can look funky to me.
Here is a double lock-back folding knife that P.J.Tomes made for me that I recently got back from Steve Dunn, who engraved it. It has American scroll as its design core. The photo doesn't do it justice. It was my first experience working with an engraver. I sent him some photos of styles I liked and he took it from there.
I'm still getting used to it. Kinda like seeing a woman wearing makeup for the first time.
