View Single Post
  #1  
Old 01-04-2018, 09:50 AM
Ron Jr.'s Avatar
Ron Jr. Ron Jr. is offline
Gold
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: phoenix
Posts: 177
Default Engraved Seiko SKX Watch Case Back

Commissioned Seiko SKX case back. Before anyone gets uptight (even though this is an original design I came up it’s obviously inspired by Tom Sterlings work) I did contact Tom directly and talk to him about this design before I proceeded. Tom graciously told me he had no problems with it and to go for it. Mad respect to you guys engraving/carving/cutting the harder metals. I had only done this kind of work on softer materials before. Talk about an eye opener. The customers budget was very low and I came out WAY on the losing end for profit but way ahead on learning so I’m calling this project a wash. Overall I give the final work a C- but for the time I did it in (about 25 hours) and the unexpected hardness of the metal I’ll take it.

……Because the quality of the work is so low I hesitated to even show this here. I hate taking jobs that I know I can’t, for one reason or another, put maximum effort into but felt there might be a lesson somewhere in here for anyone new or starting out.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg skx case back 9.jpg (92.0 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg skx-case-back-9-1.jpg (107.8 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg skx-case-back-9-3.jpg (47.7 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg skx-case-back-9-4.jpg (68.0 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg skx-case-back-9-5.jpg (66.6 KB, 0 views)
__________________
Have a good one
Ron Jr. Scrimshaw & Engraivng
http://www.rlmagic.com/enter/index.html
Reply With Quote