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<\/span>Thank you for visiting my web site. Beyond family \u00e2\u20ac\u201c my wife Janet , sons and daughters and grandkids \u00e2\u20ac\u201c engraving is my life. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I do and what I enjoy. It gives me great pleasure to create art, and firearms engraving is just that. It might be somewhat an obscure art form to the world I general, but to me, my engraving associates, and the clients we serve, it is as important and historical. In the course of history man has marked, painted, engraved and otherwise decorated his various possessions because they were important to him. We still do it today of course, but in a much different way and for different reasons. We take plain things and make them beautiful to our eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and as engravers, we relish every opportunity to bring metal to life. <\/p>\n

How it started<\/p>\n

American Engraving has re-generated itself over the past 40 years. German immigrant engravers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nimschke, Helfricht, Kornbrath and others) worked in their private shops and at Colt, Winchester and various manufacturing plants from after the civil war until the 1930\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. With WWII production of military arms art of engraving went dormant, and after the war few American engravers could be found. The few left \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Alvin White, Joseph Fugger, Winston Churchill, Lynton McKenzie, Frank Hendricks (and others) -carried on.
\nWith the founding of FEGA, the art of American Engraving has flourished. FEGA has 400 +- members, and there are others who work independently. There exist only two qualified verifiable titles for the art \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the FEGA Master Engraver (about 50 individuals) and the Colt Master Engraver (12 individuals) carry these benchmark titles. I have earned both titles (FEGA, 2015) and Colt Master (2003).
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\nAmerican Engraving has re-generated itself over the past 40 years. German immigrant engravers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nimschke, Helfricht, Kornbrath and others) worked in their private shops and at Colt, Winchester and various manufacturing plants from after the civil war until the 1930\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. With WWII production of military arms art of engraving went dormant, and after the war few American engravers could be found. The few left \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Alvin White, Joseph Fugger, Winston Churchill, Lynton McKenzie, Frank Hendricks (and others) -carried on.
\nWith the founding of FEGA, the art of American Engraving has flourished. FEGA has 400 +- members, and there are others who work independently. There exist only two qualified verifiable titles for the art \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the FEGA Master Engraver (about 50 individuals) and the Colt Master Engraver (12 individuals) carry these benchmark titles. I have earned both titles (FEGA, 2015) and Colt Master (2003).<\/p>\n<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you for visiting my web site. Beyond family \u00e2\u20ac\u201c my wife Janet , sons and daughters and grandkids \u00e2\u20ac\u201c engraving is my life. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I do and what I enjoy. It gives me great pleasure to create art, and firearms engraving is just that. It might be somewhat an obscure art form to Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmsengraving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}