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Ridiculous ideas

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:07 pm
by exengrav
I have had a couple of jobs to do for an artist that I know. He has the idea, I get it to work and do the job and he gets artistic acknowledgement. Sound familiar to anybody else? I have cut conical holes in a book, to accommodate limpet shells ( stepped, 15 pages at a time ! ) and even more wacky, I have engraved text onto seagull feathers. Just wondering what other equally unlikely jobs anybody else has taken on ?

Re: Ridiculous ideas

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 7:21 pm
by Spooky
Sealing rings for a PWR system :)

Most expensive engraving jobs I do, £2,000 for 20 minutes work but months of paperwork and authorisations to get :)

Re: Ridiculous ideas

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:58 pm
by TimBobTastic
strange request I have fulfilled is to engrave an oak toilet seat as a leaving gift for a long term employee of a bathroom company.... only just fitted on my 3060... but I enjoyed the challenge

Re: Ridiculous ideas

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:17 pm
by Tom
I've cut some stingray skin samples for inlaying
Not a very nice smell at all


Tom

Re: Ridiculous ideas

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:10 pm
by TimBobTastic
Ewww Stingray.... but money is money....

Re: Ridiculous ideas

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 5:45 pm
by Hazel
I told someone I could engraved bananas so he asked me to engrave some with his kid's names on. I also used mirrored acrylic to make a custom mirror for a budgie that had it's name engraved on it to hang in it's cage.

Re: Ridiculous ideas

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 12:23 pm
by Daven
:lol: if it's paid for it's not so ridiculous ;)