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Old 10-29-2015, 03:42 PM
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My name is Troy and I've been interested in learning to engrave for years mainly being a gun enthusiast and a graphic designer. I started drawing scroll a couple years ago on paper in my spare time. I hope to start collecting equipment this winter for engraving.

I just built a pole barn this summer and am getting ready to build MY CORNER. Lol. Going to have a bench for reloading and engraving. But I'm eager to learn and hope to get started with used stuff inexpensively and work my way up.

I'm married to a wonderful wife and we have four kids ranging 18 to 10! I've been a fulltime designer for 22 years currently in healthcare.

And yes....I like heavy metal which is the perfect genre for engraving metal, right!?

God bless!
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Old 11-01-2015, 09:40 AM
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Welcome Troy!
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Old 11-01-2015, 10:45 AM
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What part of Indiana?
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Old 11-01-2015, 10:55 AM
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My name is Troy and I've been interested in learning to engrave for years mainly being a gun enthusiast and a graphic designer. I started drawing scroll a couple years ago on paper in my spare time. I hope to start collecting equipment this winter for engraving.

I just built a pole barn this summer and am getting ready to build MY CORNER. Lol. Going to have a bench for reloading and engraving. But I'm eager to learn and hope to get started with used stuff inexpensively and work my way up.

I'm married to a wonderful wife and we have four kids ranging 18 to 10! I've been a fulltime designer for 22 years currently in healthcare.

And yes....I like heavy metal which is the perfect genre for engraving metal, right!?

God bless!
not so ! gate mouth brown for newbies. ravel or hayden for experienced engravers. maybe the modern jazz quartet as well. all depends on yer level of frustration !
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Hey Troy from Indiana, welcome to the forum. There are a lot of wonderful folks here who will be glad to help you help yourself. The best advice I can give you right now is to sign up for a basic engraving class just as soon as you can. You will save countless hours, day's and months of frustration. You will have questions answered about equipment and, as an added bonus you might just make some new friends. Enjoy the journey and stay in touch.
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Old 11-02-2015, 07:51 AM
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Thank you everybody!
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Old 11-02-2015, 07:53 AM
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not so ! gate mouth brown for newbies. ravel or hayden for experienced engravers. maybe the modern jazz quartet as well. all depends on yer level of frustration !
LOL, I may be able to compromise down to some Joe Bonomasa!!
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Old 11-02-2015, 07:54 AM
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What part of Indiana?
Crawfordsville area. Are you familiar with Indiana?
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Crawfordsville area. Are you familiar with Indiana?
Born there, messed around some in Sulpher, Crawfordsville, and wherever that cave was up there somewhere Wyndot? Anyway, I went to high school in Newburgh. Don't miss it though.
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Crawfordsville area. Are you familiar with Indiana?
I live just across the river in Louisville, KY. Fairly certain I bought either a gun or a dog from someone in Crawfordsville a few years back. Nice place, as I remember it. Nice and flat. I'm remembering a restaurant (Mexican?) that was absolutely wicked!
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Old 11-02-2015, 08:26 PM
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Little Mexico!!! The best Mexican food in Indiana!

Drove through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia last October. Loved Kentucky and Tennessee!
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I am in Indiana up north though. Welcome aboard.
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