Engraving and Cue Building?

plshrk22

plshrk22

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It just seems to me that these 2 things could be tied together. My father has been doing Scrim Shaw and Gun Engraving for years. He loves doing both and asked me the other day if Engraving could be intigrated into cues. I wasnt sure due to the weight of metal. He built this piece for a gun show down in AZ last month. The Water Buffalo is hand carved also. Let me know your guys thoughts.

* Or maybe even something intigrated onto a Case?

UPDATE 03/03/10 - Here are some more examples of what he can do.


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Thanks he really appreciates that. This was something experimental with the Picture Frame look. Its a Walnut Frame.
 
plshrk22 said:
It just seems to me that these 2 things could be tied together. My father has been doing Scrim Shaw and Gun Engraving for years. He loves doing both and asked me the other day if Engraving could be intigrated into cues. I wasnt sure due to the weight of metal. He built this piece for a gun show down in AZ last month. The Water Buffalo is hand carved also. Let me know your guys thoughts.

* Or maybe even something intigrated onto a Case?
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Scrim and engraving are used in high end art cues. These cues are usually $5,000 - $25,000 masterpieces, very similar to custom rifles except the scrim work on cues is on bone, horn, and ivory and it's usually in color. Metal work is usually limited to the joint and but areas, but there have been some cues inlaid with thin engraved metal pieces too.

I recommend attending a cue show some time so you and your dad can see how engraving is integrated into cue building. Most cue makers outsource their scrim and engraving work to artists like your dad.

Chris
 
Thanks for all the input TATE. I had no clue. We had talked about engraving on a thin sheet before but then wondered if it was to heavy. I was thinking that maybe a fully tooled case with thin metal Diamonds inlayed to match the tooling would be beautiful!
 
Wonderful work. Joss and Tim Scruggs used to put a few cues with engraved joints, top flight work.

I think that there is definitely a place in cue and case making for hand engraved art.

Some leatherworkers included engraved pieces in their work.

One famous leatherworker who is also a master engraver is Jeremiah Watt.

I think that you should have your father do some work on the joint and on some small pieces that can be inlaid. Once you show off your work to the cuemaking community as well as the cue buying community I think that you will find that people want it.

Thanks for sharing this great work.
 
plshrk22 said:
Thanks for all the input TATE. I had no clue. We had talked about engraving on a thin sheet before but then wondered if it was to heavy. I was thinking that maybe a fully tooled case with thin metal Diamonds inlayed to match the tooling would be beautiful!
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Below is an example of the handle of an award winning highly scrimmed Bill Schick cue "Wild Horses". Bill did all the scrimshaw himself (on ivory) and the cue is being sold by Cornerstone cues (photo from Cornerstone's site).

Because it is Bill Schick, the price is over $40,000 for this cue. I've seen it in person and it's magnifico!

Chris

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He is actually an amazing scrim shaw artist. He just recently got into gun engraving seriously. He had done it before but never took it seriously. I would love for him to partner with a case builder and design something, I think it would be beauiful. Engraving wild life is his specialty.
 
Alright my father is very interested in doing some scrim or engraving on a cue build.
 
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