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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Flourishing on guns
« on: May 17, 2021, 03:26:19 PM »
Thank You Erica you are so kind  :) It's a pleasure to read this forum

Thank You Handmadeletters, ; Yes you can find some nice lettering on vintage guns. Nowdays they are laser engraved . Flawless but not as beautiful as these vintage engravings on French Guns :

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Flourishing on guns
« on: May 16, 2021, 05:48:07 AM »
I did a video while writing it  :)
https://youtu.be/OacmO51jwuY

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Flourishing on guns
« on: May 16, 2021, 05:42:43 AM »
  Bonjour à tous, Hello everybody  :)


I don’t post very often but I try to write as often as I can….and I often visit  the Flourish forum

During the pandemic, while staying at home I had  to restore a few old guns ; Sometimes these guns  have a nice calligraphy, close to the copperplate we are writing.


I got a try on flourishing and engraving a plate with this kind of ornaments .

I hope  you’ll like it 

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Thank you Andy for mentioning me ;)

Stefa I can perhaps help you. Send me a PM please if you are interested
I  had to engrave  a few wax seals.
Late year I had to copy a 16th century seal ( when the pope was living in Avignon)



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Show & Tell / Uncial for a sword
« on: August 19, 2016, 01:51:54 PM »
 
 I have just engraved a sword forged by a friend of mine . It was a 12th century sword replica, my choice was the uncial , used at the same period :
http://www.collegecuallacci.com/musique/educmusique/docs/onciale.jpg

It was very fun to write on the steel( with a dry point) but quite hard to cut the steel with a burin


You can see the result here:

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Counterfeit?
« on: January 30, 2016, 03:12:44 PM »
Hello AnasaziWrites, I have tried micro lettering and engraving less than 0,5 mm is a nightmare.

 For micro writing you can try this nib : Atome 423 by Blanzy . It's very sharp and has low flexibility .

If you are looking for a very fine point, try to sharpen the nib yourself. It is quite easy. ;)

 I often do sharpening , mainly to increase the life of my nibs when they become scratchy. I use stones like Arkansas or Belgium stones( Coticule) the same I use for sharpening my knives, and my burins for engraving. These stones are quite expensive but you can try a bit of sand paper above a piece of glass , I mainly use 600 and 1200 grit and then I polish the point over a piece of leather with diamond compound 1µ grit.
 After that the nib becomes as smooth as the first day ;)

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Word of the Day / Re: Ivory
« on: January 19, 2016, 03:24:15 PM »
Here is my try at it ;)
 my iron gall ink is still too young, the nib is a Departementale Cementée

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Show & Tell / Re: Le marché
« on: January 14, 2016, 01:18:50 PM »
  Reminds me of a market we were able to go to in Chaumont-sur-Loire when we visited some years ago. Sigh...
 What is that lined book in which you write in the old upright style? Very interesting lines. I love that old style.
 

Thank You Andrew and Sybille, I'm glad lou like these little markets . These are generally weekly markets.

Andrew the notebook has musical stave. Thank you for the picture of your market in North Carolina, il looks very much like our "marché"

Sybille , les marchés sont un lieu idéal pour faire ses courses en vacances , et je comprends que tu t'y plaises . Je suppose que vous avez aussi de jolis marchés à Huy ?

You have certainly some markets in Belgium, haven't you ? have you some pictures of them ?

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Show & Tell / Le marché
« on: January 14, 2016, 10:03:51 AM »
If one day you are travelling in France, you ‘ll see little markets in the central place of small villages . Park your car and have a “promenade dans le marché” ;

You’ll notice that people are taking all their time for choosing fruits, meat , cheese and so on.
It is fun to walk quietly among this kind of market .

You have a few videos in Youtube







I wrote a quote from Albert Samain that depicts “le marché” . I have found violet ink like the one which was used in French schools until 1965/1968 , and the exemplar on the right is written with no slant , as I learned 55 years ago .
 
Thanks for reading

Jean

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Show & Tell / Bienvenue Clara
« on: December 26, 2015, 06:26:18 AM »
 
Late Thursday our family counted a new member. My nephew had his first baby and I took my pen and my burin both for writing a few welcoming words and for engraving a little pendant :  Bienvenue Clara !
 
I like welcoming new babies  ;)

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Celtic pen holder
« on: December 12, 2015, 01:13:37 PM »
Thank You Everybody for your comments . Now, it will be hard to keep myself humble


 Empty Of Clods : In USA you can purchase titanium at Reactive Metal Studios. I buy Niobium there and they ship very quickly to France :

http://www.reactivemetals.com/Home.html

 Be careful Titanium is a hard metal and it will break when bending it to make a classic flange( Like the brass flanges) I often use a screw and a small cylinder made out of Inox steel to hold firmly the nib in the flange

For those who have questions on how to put colours in Titanium, here is a link to a web site where they explain  How to Anodize Titanium ( Better than I could ever do with my horrible English)
http://www.mrtitanium.com/interference.html

And for those who can read French , here’s a step by step of my process :
http://www.gravure-couteaux.info/anodisation.html


Erica, je suis heureux qu'il soit arrivé à bon port et que tu le trouves à ton goût :D
As-tu remarqué qu'il avait un peu le bleu Flourish ?  Et ces plumes "departementale cementée " sont faites pour écrire en français  ;)

Joyeux Noël

Jean

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Celtic pen holder
« on: December 10, 2015, 02:48:27 AM »
This pen holder is crossing the pond, I hope her owner will make me the honour of writing with it :D

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Celtic pen holder
« on: December 10, 2015, 02:47:00 AM »
 I don’t often make pen holders, but this time I had to make a gift to someone who has Irish ancestors. 
That explains why I carved celtic knots in the boxwood body and in the titanium flange.  :)
The tail is made with ebony and  the ring is ivory substitute.


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Show & Tell / Re: Galalithe: new pen holder with an old material
« on: December 09, 2015, 03:37:36 AM »
Your pen holder is beautiful.  Since it is made with milk maybe you should write with white ink and draw a little mustache.  LOL. "Got Milk?" was an advertising campaign done by the milk companies in the United States several years ago.

Seanlanefuller, I follow your advice and made an advertising for Galalithe pen holders  :D

A bientôt

Jean

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Show & Tell / Re: Galalithe: new pen holder with an old material
« on: December 09, 2015, 03:34:00 AM »
Thank You everybody  :)
 I try another photograph with natural daylaight. Titanium doesn't glow that well :(

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