There's something inherently beautiful about the intimacy and romanticism that comes with a piece a craftsman used their hands and analog tech to create.
Sam, you have a gift. I'm not talking about your engraving (although, I could, as it also is a gift of yours) I am talking about your ability to captivate, teach, motivate/inspire, and you seem like you enjoy it. Great work, I appreciate you taking the time for this stuff. Oh....probably should have mentioned, this particular video was very useful. Thanks again
Another awesome demonstration! I learned engraving with push gravers and some hammer and chisel. This makes me want to pick up my hammer. Thanks for making the video and sharing with us!!
Wow! That's a great technique. It looks easy but I know it requires a lot of practice and patience to get the perfection. Thank you for sharing this beautiful art👍👍.
True craftsmanship! I’m just starting out at 56 , I can’t afford a GRS or Lindsay pneumatic engraver so it’s basics for my basic start in engraving , hope I win the lottery but I’m not a gambler
I know you probably don't look at comments on these old videos, but I wondered if you could define what a "heel" is. That was such a small tool that it was not obvious what was being done during sharpening. I find your work truly fascinating! Lovely!
Sam I enjoyed your video greay. I engraved on mostly silver but the techniques are very similar. There is some finish techniques to add and some rolling techniques of chasing to be added to further mostly the nonferrious metals end of chasing and engraving that I used in a protype shop I worked in for a long time. Perhaps for another day. But this video shows your obvious talent and willingness to go oldschool when needed which is almost a lost art today... Every piece I did was old school but that's mostly because I'm old... LOL. Thanks much for stirring so many my old memories I hadn't thought of in decades..
Thanks for the video Sam. I would like to see you make a video of recommended tools for starting on a low budget. Also off subject, I noticed the banjo in the background. I play a fretless Appalachian mountain banjo.
Wish you lived in California ,I could sure use some help starting up! If I lived near you I wouldn't miss a single minute of class haha metal engraving is such a beautiful art form ,and I can't wait to make something like you made here lol you make it seem effortless.keep up the beautiful work! Jonny
Can you imagine how much better that could have turned out if the microscope rotated whileyou walked around the work? Very good demonstration. Nice engraving.
Wonderful video Sam, I've started engraving using hammer and graver. So far practicing on aluminium, copper and brass and a home made rotating vice made out of an old drill press vice mounted on large nylon cutting block washers (about 6in diam.) with Teflon lubrication spray between. Your work in an inspiration. I can't seem to find a good blackening compound though. Black paint doesn't seem to work for me. I suspect you use some sort of graphite compound. What should I try? Thanks in anticipation. Stuart (Australia)
I BOUGHT a square steel, hardened, right angle ( I ASSUME ) and no matter what I do, its digging into the metal. Angle is so damn flat I'm almost ending up on the underside of the piece -.- what is it? My hammer too heavy? Does it depends on material? I tried AlMg and AlPb, brass flatstock, sheet metal and steel.....all the same. Never consitent depth.
As a master bronze caster and cowboy I can see the potential of using your method to carve wax modeled into decorative spurs for everyday use. Once cast I would inlay with silver. Simon Australia.
Thank you. I was looking to hide some marks that a previous owner left on a firearm. This seems to be a practical was to "disappear" the issue. I'll practice some before attempting anything, but this gives me somewhere to start. Cheers
Good afternoon, Sam Alfano! Your work is beautiful. I also want to learn this kind of work. but I do not have any tools or skills yet. Can that that will advise, with what to begin? What tool.? Many thanks .
Hi Sam, why is the hammer necessary? is it because the steel is hard? I see the 'hand push' engraving video, which does not require a hammer, is it because the metal was softer or the graver is sharper? I'm looking to start engraving but unwilling to yet make heavy investment in pneumatic system. Thanks for your insight.
Congratulations for your explanations, which punch do you recommend to make this sign and where to buy in Europe? for black shades do you use black oil ink? thank you
Yeah, so that proves in 2020 engraving is NOT famous. Thank goodness, the internet is making us dumb humans aware of these basic facts. Hiding in the back room of some horrible little nobody shop, doesn’t make you rich OR famous.
@@sheevinopalpatino4782 would you agree engraving has been going on for a long time? If you agree to that, then you also know if something has been done for a long time, humans always get bored with the repetition and they begin to make jokes and after a while those jokes make people head in the opposite direction. A good thing turns into a bad thing over time. The tide goes in and then out. Instead of approaching people to get work and share the joy of decoration, engravers are hiding in exclusive shops. The tide is clearly going out on these types of people. You’re making sure they’re careers are over rapidly.
@@sheevinopalpatino4782 control your self. You haven’t reached the level of a conversation where you dismiss a person at the end. You judge people without even knowing anything about the person. I’m just commenting as a smoke alarm and YOU think it’s me, I’m talking from my own perspective. You’re wrong! You’re disrespectful and discriminating. The engraving industry has been around for such a long time humans must approach them as being sick in the head behaving like spiders not humans. They certainly aren’t SOCIAL People in 2020. Motorbike stores are far more sociable than jewellery shops. Where’s the BBQ after work on Thursday? GET OUT FROM BEHIND THE COUNTER AND ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE! The customers AREN’T going to open the door anymore! You DO some WORK at being social from now on!
I don’t have the equipment to do this. Is their an easier and cheeper way to hold the pice of metal in place and a more affordable equipment to magnify what I would be doing?I really love seeing you and others doing this and I would like to join the crew!
There's something inherently beautiful about the intimacy and romanticism that comes with a piece a craftsman used their hands and analog tech to create.
Pretty inspiring to see what you can do with such simple and inexpensive equipment! Thanks for the video!
Sam, you have a gift. I'm not talking about your engraving (although, I could, as it also is a gift of yours) I am talking about your ability to captivate, teach, motivate/inspire, and you seem like you enjoy it. Great work, I appreciate you taking the time for this stuff. Oh....probably should have mentioned, this particular video was very useful. Thanks again
Thank you for your tutorial/video. I have a deep level of respect for what you create. Well done!
Thanks for the video Sam!
Most inspiring watching the lines form so smooth with such control.
Such handwork should be treasured!
That turned out more than great! It's beautiful! Thanks for the awesome video!
Thx for sharing your knowledge! People like you are amazing huge respect! Cheers from Canada
I’m not sure how I got here but I’m glad I did. That sir was some beautiful artistry. Thank you for sharing.
Another awesome demonstration! I learned engraving with push gravers and some hammer and chisel. This makes me want to pick up my hammer. Thanks for making the video and sharing with us!!
So therapeutic to watch. Beautiful.
Such lovely engraving,
what a gift you have!
Great video Sam. Thank you.
Thank you Sir I loved this I learned so much just from watching. I will definitely be trying this.
Красиво, хорошая работа, требующая большого терпения и высокого уровня мастерства. Желаю успехов!
Very nicely made demonstration. Thank you.
Such beautiful work. Thanks for posting.
I'm taken back to when Paul Revere engraved like this. Engraving in its purest form.
Thanks Sam! I did enjoy it. Thanks for inspiration. I should turn a new handle for my graver and try this method. I'm total newbie in engraving.
Super Job,I have always wanted to see that done,thanks for your time.
Wow! That's a great technique. It looks easy but I know it requires a lot of practice and patience to get the perfection. Thank you for sharing this beautiful art👍👍.
True craftsmanship! I’m just starting out at 56 , I can’t afford a GRS or Lindsay pneumatic engraver so it’s basics for my basic start in engraving , hope I win the lottery but I’m not a gambler
Thanks for the advises, impressive job !
I know you probably don't look at comments on these old videos, but I wondered if you could define what a "heel" is. That was such a small tool that it was not obvious what was being done during sharpening. I find your work truly fascinating! Lovely!
Sam
I enjoyed your video greay. I engraved on mostly silver but the techniques are very similar. There is some finish techniques to add and some rolling techniques of chasing to be added to further mostly the nonferrious metals end of chasing and engraving that I used in a protype shop I worked in for a long time.
Perhaps for another day.
But this video shows your obvious talent and willingness to go oldschool when needed which is almost a lost art today...
Every piece I did was old school but that's mostly because I'm old... LOL.
Thanks much for stirring so many my old memories I hadn't thought of in decades..
Thanks for the video Sam. I would like to see you make a video of recommended tools for starting on a low budget.
Also off subject, I noticed the banjo in the background. I play a fretless Appalachian mountain banjo.
I would also love seeing a video of beginners tools and techniques
Yes get amazon links on it? I dont know the name of these tools.
Congrats from Brazil. Exactly. Tool names and tips about this great art. I'm wating for this.
That looks like it's right up My Alley. Thank You.
Looks great. Thank you very much and I hope all is well with you 🤙
Beautiful video man!
Started so dirty cut then it goes better and better. Been a long time I believe ! Nice job Sam
Gracias, Maestro!
This is all the motivation i need
---hermoso trabajo..felicidades.
Great job man!!!! Nice skill
Wow, fantastic craftsmanship.
So nice to see that thanks to youtube craftsmanship like that are never going to die out.
Wow! Amazing work!
Fantastic work (again).
You are the best - Thanks for sharing
Very nice indeed! I have aspirations to try this.
Beautiful work.
Your close home... nice work!
I am so impressed, what a great talent to be so gifted in.
The only gift is patience and wanting to learn. It's hard work to get that good
nice work
Thanks for taking the time to make the video and share it
Thanks Sam.
Very nice. Thank you.
What an art something I always wanted to try
You, sir, are quite talented. Very nice.
Hermoso trabajo maestro,el que usted realiza ya me suscribi a su canal saludos desde la ciudad de México.
wonderful video helps a lot think I have to get me a rotating vice for sure
Lucky is the man who is happy in his work.
Wonderful!
Fascinating work.
Apropos of nothing other than enjoying spotting such things--that appears to be a 16610.
Ciao. Sei un artista. Saluti dall'Italia
Gracias. Bello. Trabajo
amazing work master
Wish you lived in California ,I could sure use some help starting up! If I lived near you I wouldn't miss a single minute of class haha metal engraving is such a beautiful art form ,and I can't wait to make something like you made here lol you make it seem effortless.keep up the beautiful work!
Jonny
What a nice and precision work. You are Expert keep it up
You are the grand master.
Thanks You .
I could watch hours of this.
wow fantastic work
Bravissimo Maestro,!
amazing... congrats...
that is so nice
so cool !
Can you imagine how much better that could have turned out if the microscope rotated whileyou walked around the work? Very good demonstration. Nice engraving.
A great demonstration perfectly explained and shown thanks a lot :) :) :) I have suscribed and the thumb up of course !!
Wonderful video Sam,
I've started engraving using hammer and graver. So far practicing on aluminium, copper and brass and a home made rotating vice made out of an old drill press vice mounted on large nylon cutting block washers (about 6in diam.) with Teflon lubrication spray between. Your work in an inspiration.
I can't seem to find a good blackening compound though. Black paint doesn't seem to work for me. I suspect you use some sort of graphite compound. What should I try?
Thanks in anticipation.
Stuart (Australia)
Thanks Sam! That was enlightening. Have you done, or do you do, metal inlays?
I BOUGHT a square steel, hardened, right angle ( I ASSUME ) and no matter what I do, its digging into the metal. Angle is so damn flat I'm almost ending up on the underside of the piece -.- what is it? My hammer too heavy? Does it depends on material? I tried AlMg and AlPb, brass flatstock, sheet metal and steel.....all the same. Never consitent depth.
Wow, very cool. How critical are the angles at the tip? Can you do something similar with a wood chisel on softer metals like copper?
The geometry of the chisel is absolutely critical. I wouldn't use a wood chisel on metal, no.
It’s NOT cool.
@@dreyn7780 huh?
very beautiful! Now such things can be done with less effort on laser machines. we have a lot of video engraving there
As a master bronze caster and cowboy I can see the potential of using your method to carve wax modeled into decorative spurs for everyday use. Once cast I would inlay with silver. Simon Australia.
SOOO COOOOL i want to do the same thing to my self hand crafted gladius
Thank you. I was looking to hide some marks that a previous owner left on a firearm. This seems to be a practical was to "disappear" the issue. I'll practice some before attempting anything, but this gives me somewhere to start. Cheers
Great work for being Rusty!!! Some day I would like to do that well
Hello Sam! Great job! On a piece like this, how many times do you grind the chissel?
This is what id like to do. Time to start saving for a hammer and chisel
I am going to try this. I will make myself some tools. Too bad I dont live near Kansas anymore.
I like your bench vise! What is it? Where can One find such a tool?!... Thanks !!!!! AWESOME Video, and Skills!!!
Good afternoon, Sam Alfano!
Your work is beautiful.
I also want to learn this kind of work. but I do not have any tools or skills yet. Can that that will advise, with what to begin? What tool.?
Many thanks .
Mesmerising too watch ,from an unskilled in any art guy, envy and admiration are all I can offer .fantastic 👍🇬🇧
skill . art nice work
majestic
Nicely done
Amazing 😍 really really 😍
Hi Sam, why is the hammer necessary? is it because the steel is hard? I see the 'hand push' engraving video, which does not require a hammer, is it because the metal was softer or the graver is sharper? I'm looking to start engraving but unwilling to yet make heavy investment in pneumatic system. Thanks for your insight.
you best learn to know every cut before you put a fast impacting device behind it.
Sam, I have enjoyed your videos.I would like to know the engraving tools brand thanks.
Tanks for this information now u can start without a machine!
oldskool rules, tnx for video^^, im totally new to this, but seriously considering buying me a dremelset to experiment with^^
Greate video! Would a carspring metal work as the chisel?
Congratulations for your explanations, which punch do you recommend to make this sign and where to buy in Europe? for black shades do you use black oil ink? thank you
nice work.
if you please can you tell me what tools are using?
where are you buying?
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Impressive !! I ve never seen that type of rotating vice before.
Yeah, so that proves in 2020 engraving is NOT famous.
Thank goodness, the internet is making us dumb humans aware of these basic facts.
Hiding in the back room of some horrible little nobody shop, doesn’t make you rich OR famous.
@@dreyn7780 Why are you so hostile about hand & chisel engraving? What's wrong with you?
@@sheevinopalpatino4782 would you agree engraving has been going on for a long time?
If you agree to that, then you also know if something has been done for a long time, humans always get bored with the repetition and they begin to make jokes and after a while those jokes make people head in the opposite direction.
A good thing turns into a bad thing over time.
The tide goes in and then out.
Instead of approaching people to get work and share the joy of decoration, engravers are hiding in exclusive shops.
The tide is clearly going out on these types of people. You’re making sure they’re careers are over rapidly.
@@dreyn7780 Very passionate about hating engraving, must have a nice life.
@@sheevinopalpatino4782 control your self.
You haven’t reached the level of a conversation where you dismiss a person at the end.
You judge people without even knowing anything about the person.
I’m just commenting as a smoke alarm and YOU think it’s me, I’m talking from my own perspective.
You’re wrong!
You’re disrespectful and discriminating.
The engraving industry has been around for such a long time humans must approach them as being sick in the head behaving like spiders not humans.
They certainly aren’t SOCIAL People in 2020.
Motorbike stores are far more sociable than jewellery shops.
Where’s the BBQ after work on Thursday?
GET OUT FROM BEHIND THE COUNTER AND ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE!
The customers AREN’T going to open the door anymore!
You DO some WORK at being social from now on!
Awesome video, thank you. Where could I buy that kind of chisel and hammer? Thanks
I don’t have the equipment to do this. Is their an easier and cheeper way to hold the pice of metal in place and a more affordable equipment to magnify what I would be doing?I really love seeing you and others doing this and I would like to join the crew!
can you make some more videos, like engraving guns, with like a blued type steel and gold inlays, I think those are really neat.
Guns are 3D printed in 2020. Computers do all the work now.
great job!! where can i find engraver with that shape? thanks
I see why you like the handpiece speed wise . How would this be undercut for inlay? When would it be done as well?