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Nov 03, 2025
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2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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GST 192 - Advanced Engraving
Description: Design and layout on flat and cylindrical surfaces. Emphasis on balance, selecting tools and fixtures, manipulation of the engraver's vise, and all components familiar to the trade.
Prerequisites: GST 191
Credits: 3
Lecture: 1
Lab: 6
Course Content:
- Advanced scroll patterns
- Animal and bird patterns
- Shading with lines only
- Grinding of flat gravers
- Background removal
- NSculpture engraving on practice plate
- NSculpture engraving on firearm part
- Jigs and fixtures for holding work in the vise
- Lettering
Learning Outcomes:
- Design and execute more advanced interlocked scroll work on practice plate. (1)
- Design and execute scroll and animal or bird scene on practice plate. (2)
- Shade designs with cut lines only. (3)
- Grind flat gravers to remove background material, large and small. (4)
- Cut away background material in preparation for sculptured animal scenes. (5)
- Design, execute and finish sculptured animal scene on practice plate. (6)
- Design, execute and finish sculptured animal or bird scene on a rifle floor plate. (7)
- Utilize jigs and fixtures for holding pieces in vise. (8)
- Perform the art of lettering. (9)
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