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<p>[QUOTE="Ron Landis, post: 1574524, member: 42118"]<span style="color: #ff0000">edited</span> I received a PM asking me to place it on here so members could ask questions. It's a three-sided carving from a 1913 T1. I like to incorporate the mound into these "scenics" I am doing now. I have also been putting song lyrics into the grassy textures to help tell a story. This one is a verse from an old bluegrass tune "Blue Railroad Train". </p><p><br /></p><p>I took the reduction lens off my Zeiss stereo microscope so I could go as high as 60X magnification. I use traditional gravers and abrasive stones to carve these although lately I have been using the Lindsay Palm Control graver for the initial roughing-out part. It's an air-assisted power graver that works like a miniature jack-hammer. <span style="color: #ff0000">edited - that, you cannot do</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ron Landis, post: 1574524, member: 42118"][COLOR=#ff0000]edited[/COLOR] I received a PM asking me to place it on here so members could ask questions. It's a three-sided carving from a 1913 T1. I like to incorporate the mound into these "scenics" I am doing now. I have also been putting song lyrics into the grassy textures to help tell a story. This one is a verse from an old bluegrass tune "Blue Railroad Train". I took the reduction lens off my Zeiss stereo microscope so I could go as high as 60X magnification. I use traditional gravers and abrasive stones to carve these although lately I have been using the Lindsay Palm Control graver for the initial roughing-out part. It's an air-assisted power graver that works like a miniature jack-hammer. [COLOR=#ff0000]edited - that, you cannot do[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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