{"id":3711,"date":"2015-01-02T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:35:37","slug":"william-henry-dragonfly-bolster-knife-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3711","title":{"rendered":"William Henry Dragonfly Bolster Knife Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Henry Dragonfly Bolster Knife Scales Work-in-Progress
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\n<\/a>The images above are of the finished knife, and courtesy of the good folks at\u00a0http:\/\/www.williamhenry.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_1\"<\/a>\u00a0Starting on a William Henry knife scale with dragonfly theme – this is the back end bolster.<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_2a\"<\/a>
\nHere , I’ve been excavating and undercutting the pocket for the gold inlay. \u00a0So far, I’ve inlaid 24 karat gold into half of the body.<\/p>\n

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\nThe end bolster inlaid with gold and finished. \u00a0This is about a day’s engraving for me. \u00a0Next, the main themed front bolster…<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_3\"<\/a>\u00a0The William Henry front bolster with the major lines engraved…and some of the wispy tail excavated for gold inlay. \u00a0It’s about a full day of engraving (for me) to cut the major lines of the front bolster, and excavate the body and looooong tail ready for gold inlay, so this far has taken me\u00a0two days of work…<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_4a\"<\/a>Inlaying gold in the wispy tail – this is pretty easy as inlay goes, since it is just one width of gold wire.<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_4b\"<\/a>
\nMost of the gold inlaid today…<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_5\"<\/a>\u00a0Most of the gold work is finished, except for a bit of shading detail on the dragonfly body at the end…this is the end of day three of engraving…<\/p>\n

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\nThe gold is in and background being excavated. \u00a0Next I’ll stipple the background, detail the wings, then add shadow details to the gold body. \u00a0Not long for this side…this is the end of the fourth day.<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_6b\"<\/a>
\nFinished the background stippling today\u2026Right now the background is just a million tiny holes (stippling). The last thing I will do is to make it even darker by inking the low spots, and wiping it off of the high spots…<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_8a\"<\/a>
\nWith the finished detailing of the wings and the shading of the gold body, this side is finished! \u00a0End of day five.<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_8b\"<\/a>
\nHere’s the finished scale, with the fossil ivory center inlay in place. Very pretty!<\/p>\n

\"William_Henry_B12_Bolster_Dragonfly_9\"<\/a>I haven’t been a complete slug over the holidays, and finished the other side of the William Henry dragonfly knife scales. \u00a0Here are both sides of the scales. \u00a0I took my time on Side B over the Christmas holidays, but I could probably have finished this side (since I’m pretty practiced up on this design!) in four days.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>The images above are of the finished knife, and courtesy of the good folks at\u00a0http:\/\/www.williamhenry.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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William Henry Dragonfly Bolster Knife Scales Work-in-Progress The images above are of the finished knife, and courtesy of the good folks at\u00a0http:\/\/www.williamhenry.com. \u00a0Starting on a William Henry knife scale with dragonfly theme – this is the back end bolster. Here … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[3,7,4,40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-XR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2654,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2654","url_meta":{"origin":3711,"position":0},"title":"Dragonfly Blossom (B30) William Henry Studios Knife Scales – Part 1","date":"February 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Lately, I've been engraving and carving a set of knife scales for William Henry Studios, a real challenge for me. \u00a0This is a set of scales for their B30 (Gentac) model, and fairly large as their folding knives go. \u00a0The scales are 416 stainless steel, and arrived with a mirror\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/B30-Tom-Sterling_Detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4032,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=4032","url_meta":{"origin":3711,"position":1},"title":"Engraving William Henry Koi and Waves Bolster Knife Scales","date":"September 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"William Henry B12 Koi and Waves Knife Work-in-ProgressTutorial The images above are of the finished knife, and courtesy of the good folks at\u00a0http:\/\/www.williamhenry.com. 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