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Is the border engraving on the Fox Sterlingworth hand done or stamped with some sort of machine? I am referring to the light zig zag engraving that is on all the Sterlingworths that I have seen. On one of the Sterlingworths I have the pattern seems to be slightly off from where it should be located which made me think it might have been done some how with a machine?

Thanks for the help,
Ron

a zig zag is done by "walking" an engraving tool from side to side

i assume that was the method used back then as well

Here is a video of engraving a walking line.

It's done with a chisel point graver and the "pitch" can be varied by varying the "stride" of the graver.

I takes me about an hour do do a complete Sterlingworth frame.

I imagine that the factory men were much faster.

https://youtu.be/kQiXkCUIEFI

As much as they vary, they were certainly done by hand.

Dewey,
Can this method, with smaller graver,be used to "mat"a rib?
Mike

It can. This is the method that I used to re-matt the repaired area of the Fox SBT rib that's detailed on my site.

One could conceivably do an entire rib but I wouldn't look forward to doing that.

This method is also used for shading lettering.

I did a whole rib on a Miroku. The hardest part was laying out the spacing. Will have to try to get the photos downloaded. Heck I even made the graver. Mark

Thanks for this info. Dewey. I had always wondered about that engraving on Sterlingworths.
Jim