Of a few ongoing projects, there are couple of handguns - an early 1911 and series 3 Colt Woodsman - which are beyond all reasonable touch-up restoration. So, full on restoration will involve hot bluing with all required work stages, including polishing metal surfaces. The problem is that roll marks are in really sad shape, partly unreadable and on some spots completely worn out.
The obvious choice is to have a laser engraving shop re-do the roll marking as soon as the parts are in the white and polished, but there's a problem: they need graphics for the engraving machine. Preferably in some kind of vector form but a lot can be done with a high resolution pixel image.
Does anyone have an idea where to look for these? Google images wasn't of much help, as ideally everything should be in proportion and as simple black and white line drawings.
The obvious choice is to have a laser engraving shop re-do the roll marking as soon as the parts are in the white and polished, but there's a problem: they need graphics for the engraving machine. Preferably in some kind of vector form but a lot can be done with a high resolution pixel image.
Does anyone have an idea where to look for these? Google images wasn't of much help, as ideally everything should be in proportion and as simple black and white line drawings.