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JohnK
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Do you prefer traditional engraving or laser etching?
Engraving
Laser Etching
I like both equally
Neither, plain guns look best
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For me I've never really cared for covering guns with engraving. There are some great examples of talented artists, but it never did anything for me. I do rather like the laser etching that some like Gary Reeder are doing on cylinders. A wolf/bear/Elk etched on the cylinder of a stainless gun looks pretty good to me.
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I'm not a big fan of engraving, seems to make the gun look gaudy. The laser engraving seems like a waste as I don't think it will endure to many years.
Guess I like to keep it to a bare minimum with just the logo and caliber.
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Rod WMG
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I like some (a vewry few) guns I've seen engraved. mostly they leave me cold.
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Plain...engraving just doesn't appeal to me...but I
must say that engraving seems preferable to laser
etching. At least with engraving you are showing off
some person's art and talent...with laser etching, the
only talent is the ability to flip a swtich.
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Paul5388
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I guess engraving seems to me to be for looks and not for a shooting firearm. I would rather do without any of it.
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I've seen a lot of engraved guns that looked like pimp guns. Ocasionally I'll see one that is very well done and I like it.
Probably the best engraving I've seen has been on the Colt SAAs. They just seem to a natural canvas for it.
As for laser engraving, it has no class. Engraving should be done by a humans hand. Not a computer using a light beam.
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Wife was just getting into shooting, and had no
preconcived notions about guns. Engraving she clled
"those gun scratches"...to her, even the best jobs
just detract form the form of the gun. Questioned
about it, she holds that some guns have a form that is
graceful as it is, to engrave it detracts form the
grace...the ones that are ungraceful, then engraving
seems just a way of trying to hide the lack of form.
In her words, putting lipstick on a pig won't hide that
it's a pig.
On stocks, she takes one look at a fancy figured stocks
and comments, "Doens't look like it is as strong as the
plain one." Strated to defend the pretty one...then
realized she was probably right, that bold pattern was
proably indicative of fracture planes.
Edited by ribbonstone on December 09 2004 at 3:35pm
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Engraving is nice I guess but it's the last thing I'd spend money on. Lots of it only seems to make sense on historical firearms.
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Ribbonstone,
I liked that lipstick on a pig! Tell your wife, I give her a big thumbs up! 
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For the one who loves Engraving, I thought this link could be useful.
http://profsoft.proboards33.com/index.cgi?board=general
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engraving and etching look great, but dont help my shooting, guess i would be prone to thinkin engraving and etching are for safe queens. kinda like havin a 4x4 pickup just to ride around town in for no practical purpose. 
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Extra chrome on my motorcycle didn't make it go any faster and engraving on my gun doesn't make me shoot better, but sometimes a little extra chrome looks cool and some guns do take to engraving well and look pretty nice. I have a couple Belguim Browning shotguns that have factory engraving and they look pretty good to me.
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i saw this colt old army revolver or something at the gun shop the other day... was engraved all over and was the ugliest thing I've ever seen with a 1600 dollar price tag.
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Obviously engraving does nothing for function, but if done properly it can add a certain something. I just picked up this shotgun last weekend, the best I can figure it was made in 1892-94 time frame. I like the idea of some English guy doing the engraving by a light fueled by whale oil.
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That's nice Steelhead. I have an old PArker double made in 1885 that has engraving on it like yours, not the same pattern of course, but all the steel is engraved, even down to fine little stuff on the hammers, something your shotgun seems to be missing 
Macal, that extra chrome on hte bike is caled "safety chrome" as it makes me safer by providing more reflective area to be seen better, or at least that's the excuse I use when the little lady asks 
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Engraving is like art. A little goes a long way. A few touches are fine even on a shootin iron, but full embellishment is for looks alone. I would hate to have a beautifully engraved firearm get all scratched up in the woods or at the range. Not only does the artwork cost a small fortune, it can be easily ruined. I will take my firearms plain or with a minimal amt of touchup.
My 2 cents worth. Buddy Little
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Macal wrote:
| Extra chrome on my motorcycle didn't make it go any faster and engraving on my gun doesn't make me shoot better, but sometimes a little extra chrome looks cool and some guns do take to engraving well and look pretty nice. |
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My thoughts EXACTLY !
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i like steelheads double.to me; an old,turn of the century SxS needs engraving.i agree,it has no practical use but i do admire the skill,attention to detail and hours of hand work that must go into an intricate design.years ago a gun mag did a spread on engravers.one i remember was a winchester with a nude,chubby woman lying on a sofa.it looked like a painting you sometimes see in the bar scenes in old western movies.call me crazy but i like women and winchesters.
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I like well done engraving as art. It doesn't matter if it is done 'by hand' or by machine. I would not particularly care to have nice engraving on a shooting gun as it, the engaving, is too subject to damage.
What I could never understand is why someone would spend big bucks on a really nice piece of stock wood and then destroy it by checkering. Beautiful wood should be left natural.
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