02-19-2007, 09:36 PM
Hello,
As i have said in my tutorial, i do the etching because is easier than do a real engraving.
The brass of that pugio don't seems inlay because romans do the insetting of the brass and then make a very heavy smoothing of the surface of the piece using abrasive powder of volcanic mineral (in spanish is "piedra pómez").
That polishing of the surface conceals all the posible irregularitys of the inlay, and the piece seems like if there were painted or so.
As i have said in my tutorial, i do the etching because is easier than do a real engraving.
The brass of that pugio don't seems inlay because romans do the insetting of the brass and then make a very heavy smoothing of the surface of the piece using abrasive powder of volcanic mineral (in spanish is "piedra pómez").
That polishing of the surface conceals all the posible irregularitys of the inlay, and the piece seems like if there were painted or so.
Cesar Pocinya
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