[TheForge] need some help.

[Andrew Vida]

If you're talking about hand engraving, I'd recommend you gratly 
foreshorten the prose.

As for etching, you can do so in reasonable thickness, but for the 
application in question, I'd saw 8 ga. would be my minimum.  1/4 would 
be nicer.

You've reminded me that I have yet to make Jack's grave marker.  I plan 
on doing wrought iron, which should last nicely in the mist of the 
Oregon coast.  Crap... now you have me thinking about Jack.

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
> 
> i am still hurting from losing huck. i want to make a small copper
> memorial plaque for huck. my idea is to engrave or etch a picture of
> huck at the top of the copper plate and below it inscribe the following
> song lyrics. the plaque will be placed in a wildflower garden i am going
> to plant as a rememberance of huck.
> 
> <begin quote>
> ONLY LOVE (Nana Mouskouri)
> 
>    Only love can make a memory
>    Only love can make a moment last.
>    You were there
>    And all the world was young
>    And all its songs unsung,
>    And I remember you then,
>    When love was all,
>    All you were living for,
>    And how you gave that love to me.
> 
>    Only then I felt my heart was free,
>    I was part of you and you were all of me.
>    Warm were the days and the nights of those years,
>    Painted in colors to outshine the sun.
>    All of the words and the dreams and the tears
>    Live in my remembrance.
> 
>    Only love can make a memory,
>    Only love can make that moment last,
>    Life was new
>    There was a rage to live,
>    Each day a page to live,
>    And I remember you then,
>    When love was all,
>    All you were living for,
>    And how you gave that love to me.
> 
>    Only then I knew my heart was free,
>    I was part of you and you were all of me.
> <end   quote>
> 
> what gauge of copper should i use?
> any tips on the engraving or etching?
> is there an online resource for good looking script fonts to use for the
> engraving?
> what is the process to take a color picture and create an etching of the
> picture in copper?
> should i make the frame out of copper or brass or bronze?
> would incralac be the only outside finish to use?
> 
> the picture of huck i want to use is here:
> http://204.238.34.206/huck01-small.jpg
> 
> 

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	-Andy V.

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