What are the top 5 guns people like engraved?
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Looks more like dings to me
My parents have an engraving business and they did a slide for a local cop. It was a SIG just I don't remember what model. It took them running the diamond engraver over 5 times on the same area to get something that you could barely see on the slide.
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Yes, but engraving is just real deep scratches to start with!
It really doesn't show scratches as bad as a polished stainless or blued gun.
My favorite guns for engraving?
#1 Has to be fine double shotguns & rifles.
They look naked without it.
#2 Colt Single-Action Army's.
A very traditional platform.
#3 Winchester lever-actions.
#4 Colt Autos.
#5 Most certainly not Glocks.
My eyes are still hurting from post #21.
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edit; just noticed i got beat to the punch. but yeah...that's my favorite engraving on a firearm.
edit; just noticed i got beat to the punch. but yeah...that's my favorite engraving on a firearm.
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The A - number one choice for decorative engraving has to be the break action double gun, whether shotgun or express rifle, SxS or O/U.
Most people these days say an engraved gun is too pretty to shoot. It used to be different.
A hundred years or so ago, W.W. Greener wrote of the gun a customer special ordered with no engraving at all. It came back for reblacking after a good bit of use and Greener said it was very ugly, handling wear had brought out every seam, every pin, every screw in the gun. Whereas 50 shillings worth of engraving would have worn bright on the high areas and just highlighted the pattern. Some of us call that "character."
My only custom engraved gun is a S&W revolver. The local engraver's patterns look very good when cut in stainless steel with an ink and bake dark background.
I'd like to have a 1911 done that way, or maybe just blued and let the holster highlight it.
Most people these days say an engraved gun is too pretty to shoot. It used to be different.
A hundred years or so ago, W.W. Greener wrote of the gun a customer special ordered with no engraving at all. It came back for reblacking after a good bit of use and Greener said it was very ugly, handling wear had brought out every seam, every pin, every screw in the gun. Whereas 50 shillings worth of engraving would have worn bright on the high areas and just highlighted the pattern. Some of us call that "character."
My only custom engraved gun is a S&W revolver. The local engraver's patterns look very good when cut in stainless steel with an ink and bake dark background.
I'd like to have a 1911 done that way, or maybe just blued and let the holster highlight it.
Small curved guns with good lines to begin with. Like mentioned walthers are great for engraving, nice rounded revolvers, Shotguns, just look calssy. But gocks, M&P's jut don't flow the same way asthetically. I mean you can engrave anything you want to , if iit's your gun. But it; also hard to stop once you start.
Like a ruger 22, I can't see it on a gun like that, Or some custom shop guns that just look perfect in their plain void of design, or an M1, AR, even an, Ak, which lends itself better than the other 2. Nice on a derringer with a lot o detail on it. Not an FN.Also possiblly a gun with a story, tell the story"if you have the extra pockt change", like how you r grandfather gave it to your dad who passed it to you, would make a great gift for a wife to give her husband, or one that saved a life, yours or others "as long as he wanted that done to he 3d gen pistol> Just some thoughts.
Like a ruger 22, I can't see it on a gun like that, Or some custom shop guns that just look perfect in their plain void of design, or an M1, AR, even an, Ak, which lends itself better than the other 2. Nice on a derringer with a lot o detail on it. Not an FN.Also possiblly a gun with a story, tell the story"if you have the extra pockt change", like how you r grandfather gave it to your dad who passed it to you, would make a great gift for a wife to give her husband, or one that saved a life, yours or others "as long as he wanted that done to he 3d gen pistol> Just some thoughts.
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must admit that glock has a lot of time and effort into it.....that said it looks hideous it looks like something i would flush down the toilet
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FIVETWOSEVEN: If that is yours, no offense, but that Glock literally made me hurl
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lever guns and break action shotguns
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