Introduction:
Visitors to the Allan Heywood Enamels website "Benchmarks" pages will have seen some of master engraver Steve Lindsay's work. Steve's engravings are cut by hand under a microscope, often using 24k gold for inlays.
Steve began hand engraving at the age of 12 and has been a full time engraver since 1979. He's a man of many talents including being a guitar-picker (an elite group of beings who've evolved almost to the level of the 5-string banjo player) programmer, inventor of the "Airgraver" range of engraving tools, toolmaker, designer and fine artist.
We're able to show only a very small selection of his work here, but much more can be seen at his three websites.
Steve Lindsay says:
My passions are machine tools, programming and of course hand engraving. I see the internet by and large as a source of helpful people who want to share knowledge - helping each other makes living fun and worth while. I very much appreciate feedback and new ideas for advancing engraving or making the engraving web sites better.
If you have any ideas please drop me a note. If you are learning to engrave and have questions, please feel free to email and I will do my best to help. I plan to do a lot of work yet on the www.EngravingSchool.com site, so people emailing and asking engraving question helps me.
"AirGravers" (Editor's note: see www.AirGraver.com) owners are welcome to email photographs of any practice plates or drawing designs they have been working on and I'll try and help by critiquing the engraving with suggestions and pointers.
Steve Lindsay
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This Lindsay-Lindsay #5 made by Frank Lindsay (Steve's father) and engraved by Steve was eleven months in the making and engraving. There are thirty-four diamonds in the 18K gold inlay handle and one in the blade. The center 18K gold interframe was bright cut engraved. There are 424 indiviual 24K gold inlays per side (848 in all).
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