{"id":3372,"date":"2011-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiebeaulac.com\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2011-05-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T00:00:00","slug":"dying-arts-and-other-fascinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/dying-arts-and-other-fascinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying arts and other fascinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally found a hand-engraver. Most of you don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve been looking for one, but remember <a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/?p=1914\" target=\"_blank\">this vintage signet ring<\/a> that I got for Christmas in 2009? Well I&#8217;ve been wearing it everyday for two years, blank, until this week! I decided it was time to complete this incomplete ring. The difference between hand and machine engraving is quite significant, in my opinion. Machine engraving has absolutely no grace to it- the lines are too heavy, too perfect, and you are limited to a few boring styles. I&#8217;d worked with hand engravers at a previous job with a designer, and there I developed a real admiration and appreciation for their precise art. I have such a love and respect for this old-world craft, which to me, is still relevant.\u00a0 Hopefully it doesn&#8217;t fade into oblivion like so many other skilled trades.<\/p>\n<p>I found a fellow who is a very sweet, talented, older gentleman who&#8217;s been in the same location for 31 years, and has lovely old hand-engraving booklets that must date back to at least the 1920&#8217;s.\u00a0 He also has a case full of more complex pieces that he has made for people in the past and is very proud of- wax impressions of super complex carved signet images, carvings  and cut-outs of faces, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Most monograms are too florid for me, and the square signet called for something more delicate and simple, especially because of all the subtle exisiting engraved filigree.\u00a0 I found a deco style that seemed to suit the era of the ring, was not too masculine or feminine, and had a small amount of shading.\u00a0 I am very pleased with the outcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/p1080116_copy.jpg\" title=\"p1080116_copy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/p1080116_copy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/p1080116_copy.jpg\" title=\"signet, hand engraving, vintage, los angeles, the look see\" alt=\"signet, hand engraving, vintage, los angeles, the look see\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally found a hand-engraver. Most of you don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve been looking for one, but remember this vintage signet ring that I got for Christmas in 2009? Well I&#8217;ve been wearing it everyday for two years, blank, until this week! I decided it was time to complete this incomplete ring. The difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,7,13,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}