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Today’s Blog Post
My Goal – “Learn something new today.” – Guilloché or Guiloché
It is a very odd word indeed. “Guilloché”. Sometimes it is written “Guiloché”.
Have you heard of this before? It would make a great Scrabble if you had the right letters and clean out your complete letter base!
“Guilloché” is also known as or used in these ideas or machines..
- Rose engine (metalwork)
- straight line engine turning Tour à guilloché (metalwork)
- Holtzapffel lathe, named after the founder of an ornamental lathe manufacturer John Jacob Holtzapffel
- Decoration lathe (metalwork)
- damaskeening (watch movements and horology)
- Geometric lathe (security printing)
- Cycloidal engines (security printing)
- Ornamental turning or ornamental lathe (woodcarving).
I have seen this on very old antiques and furniture. I have used it while working with tools that need a good grip on it. In fact in my garage I have a Lathe that my dad bought 69 years ago now, and it will make the “Rose Engine” affect or Guilloché.
Amazing! But as of two days ago I had no idea what Guilloché was about. But now I can make something that is Guilloché.
That still doesn’t really let you see what it is all about – does it?
Here is one of my example Guilloché that I have created for this posting. Yes I did make this by hand – with my hands on my computer.
The possibilities are endless. I wish that I was younger and could have known about this many, many years ago! Oh boy!
So why bother doing this in my retirement? Shouldn’t the young people be able to do this easier than you can? Maybe. But it is fun knowing something that 99% of the young and old friends of mine have no clue about!
I will be using this method in creating wings for some of my Angels and Fairies that I am now drawing. Doing this tedious drawing by hand takes time… but by letting the machine do the work… it is only a few clicks away.
My dad told me a long time ago, “Murray, don’t be afraid to learn something new.” I have lived by these words for the better part of my 68 years of life.
I have added one more great saying that I picked up in the last years as well. “Learn something new each day, it will keep you young!”
So Guilloché is my latest and greatest achievement this week… at least in the last two days and here it is for the public to see.
But then I have been working on another new thing as well. Here is my very first graphic illustration done completely in the key board. Up to now I have hand drawn my illustrations with a pencil and pen on my paper. This little fairy is 100% computer drawn – still with my hand but none of the traditional art equipment.
Wahooo!!!! It worked well.
Today I am about to do one more new thing. It will take a little bit of reading, along with a whole lot of hands on and a few headaches along the way. But I can’t wait.
What are you learning today?
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilloch%C3%A9
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