Barry Lee Hands Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janel Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Hi Barry, Welcome to The Carving Path forum! Thank you for the photo to introduce your beautiful work to us. I cannot imagine how complex this process is to do. Janel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsterling Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Hi Barry, I've been following your exquisite work over on the engraving forum. Welcome to the Carving Path! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil White Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Welcome to the forum, Barry Beautiful work!! Good to see you here. I look forward to your input on our discussions. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Wow Barry! Superb work. Welcome again. Would you mind telling us which bits are inlay and which are overlay? Thanks. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Bonham Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Hi Barry, I have also been following your beautiful work on the Lindsay forum. Welcome to the Carving Path. Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife-Scales Posted June 19, 2009 Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 Welcome Barry, your works is really great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 Welcome Barry, your works is really great. well thank you all very much. Jim the leaves on the last pic are overlay, the wire is inlay, but really its all inlay, just a matter of degree, because when the teeth are raised it relieves that space under the teeth, so maybe the better term would be raised inlay. Here is another for you: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Barnhill Posted July 5, 2009 Report Share Posted July 5, 2009 Barry, Welcome to the path. Beautiful work. I'm partial to knives anyway and this is great. Would you mind giving me the addy for the engraving forum? I'd like to see more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2009 Barry,Welcome to the path. Beautiful work. I'm partial to knives anyway and this is great. Would you mind giving me the addy for the engraving forum? I'd like to see more. http://www.engravingforum.com/showthread.php?t=3913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Hi Barry! I cannot imagine how it was done, it looks so beautiful and fine, very perfect done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Hi Barry! I cannot imagine how it was done, it looks so beautiful and fine, very perfect done! Thank you Natasha, here is a detail pic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Unbelievable! I cannot understand yet! HOW?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Unbelievable! I cannot understand yet! HOW?????? I call this " Gilded Pearl Technique" It is an original technique that I learned myself. It is partly inspired by work I had seen in Japan where gold is combined with pearl and other things, but the style is mine, which I developed in my work in the gun and knife business in the USA. I was trained in the USA as an engraver in the 1970's and 1980's. I have traveled to many places studying damascene and engraving including Japan, England, Italy, Egypt , China, Thailand, and Indonesia. This technique is a combination of all I learned before, using special tools made solely for this purpose. When I first imagined it I was in Japan. http://www.ccn2.aitai.ne.jp/~akane/tanken.html It was early in the morning, I was meditating in this little garden. I had been studying the Damascene, and visiting a father and son who make and engrave Samurai swords. There were all these different techniques floating around in my head. White pearl kept popping into my mind, and the damascene doors from the Ali Hussein Mosque in Cairo, All these differing images were disturbing my meditations. Suddenly the gold appeared in the pearl, and the tools, special tools, for guilding the pearl appeared before me like they were floating in the air, like a vision. When I arrived home weeks later, I had forgotten all about it. Steve Lindsay soon called and asked if I would be interested in this knife job for a client of his, I said yes, and he sent me the knife. When it arrived a few days later, I opened the package. It had the same white pearl I had imagined. The hair stood up on the back of my neck as everything came back to me. I made the tools and went to work. Thanks again. All the best, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Thanks very much Barry. Can you elaborate a little on the Eldon Peterson folder? Is the gold all fixed in with the usual inlay process? Thanks. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Thanks very much Barry. Can you elaborate a little on the Eldon Peterson folder? Is the gold all fixed in with the usual inlay process? Thanks. Jim Thanks, and yes Jim, in the usual manner. The stems are raised inlays having a channel cut with a lip on the edge and teeth in the bottom. The leaves are overlays, installed after the stems are finished. Then everything is sculpted, and shaded. All the best, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Barry, You are like a poet of your work! Thank You very much! This story is amazing! Do You have more photos of your wonderful works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnus homestead Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Hello Barry, I've been gazing at the images of your superb works . . . so glad to see you here in this forum. Thank you for sharing so intimately with us. Even looking at the photos is a meditation in itself. Blessings, Magnus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergio Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Hi Barry, hi all. Your work is very beauteful. The knives to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Thank you all very much. here are some more pics of the bolsters being engraved: 1, the Drawing 2, the acetone transfers ready to go 3, transfered and ready to cut 4, the stems being laid in 5, the leaves being laid in 6, the cavities finished 7, undercut, then sanded with paper 8, teeth are laid in, gold sheet is installed 9, gold wire is installed 10, gold is sanded 11, then relieved, stippled, sculpted, shaded 12, and finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante lopez Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 hhooouuuuuuu! that's a all different thing i love the technique this is possible to do in silver whit gold or only hard whit soft I beth the tool very sharp right ,lovely work an technique I steel amazed , my respect to you ,thanks for shared whit us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doroshenko Oleg Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Simply indescribably beautiful works. Successes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Thank you very much gentlemen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janel Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Thank you Barry for the excellent photos of the beautiful work that you have done. Janel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Lee Hands Posted July 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 Thank you Barry for the excellent photos of the beautiful work that you have done. Janel Thank you very much Ladies and Gentlemen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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