If you're the least bit off, it's unforgiving. " Doing the lettering is definitely hard," says Byrnes. Jim Byrnes from San Antonio, Texas says the struggle is real. K圓's Jehan Sheikh visited the very challenging class on day 3. Cole has been engraving since 2000 and has great experience in engraving anything from wood, leather, glass, titanium, gold, silver, tungsten, and so much more. " I wanted something engraved on the side," says Linder. Firearm Engraving, LLC is owned by Cole Bonham and John Womer. Rick Linder, who traveled from Wisconsin for the class says he wanted to learn the craft after he bought a shotgun for his daughters 17th birthday. He's had students from Australia and South America come to him to learn. Now Downing has been teaching for 20 years, and has become one of the few passing on what he knows about gun engraving.Consequently people come from around the world are coming to Springfield to see Jim. His generation, they were the guys that were the great engravers of the 1960's and 70's." He had learned after the Second World War. " He was blind in one eye, cataracts in another he was 80 something years old.
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" I finally found an old guy in Little Rock that taught me how to engrave," says Downing. While we cant make you as cool as Elvis, we can engrave your guns Our on-site hand engraver does. Jim's passion for the 1960's -70 era cowboys made him want to learn how to engrave guns. This is a hand engraved pistol carried by the King himself. " The old west guns, pre-nineteen hundred, had style and grace."
The man behind the mustache teaches an old craft that takes patience, precision and a whole lot of practice.
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