Etching a vintage blade for restoration
Any one who has restored a blade with an etching has been there at one time or another- making the difficult choice of a flawless finish or preserving an attractive or historic etch. Murphy's rule of restoration says the final blemish on your blade sits just deeper then the etching itself. My question is does anybody have experience recreating the list etching in a blade? I have seen videos of custom guys like Charlie Lewis use an etching machine to apply their own logo- so why not lost etchings?!
I know that if you photograph the etching and bring it in to photo software you can easily select out just the etching and turn it in to a vector format that basically recreating the outline if the lost etching.... My question is from that point how do you ho about making a stencil? Has any one managed to do this?
Any feedback or pics of what people have done would e appreciated.