Who's Who of Engravers Directory , need your help

[pilkguns]

NOTE AS of APRIL 2009, this list has been installed online
http://learn2engrave.com/whoswho.html

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Sortof coincidental with Sam’s Historic Engravers Picture posthttp://www.igraver.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1484

I was thinking along a similar line today. I was working on my dictionary of engraving terms for my long,ever evolving engraving book project, and was thinking that there should be a Who’s Who reference list of famous engravers to assimilate for newcomers to our art. What got me thinking about it was the list of the engraver’s of John Rohner’s hammer collection, and the fact that an engraving practioner and former student of mine from several years ago, did’nt recognize the historic significance of many of the names.

So I propose we create a who’s who list. Not one of every Tom, Dick or Sally who ever made metal chips, but of those who have had great impact on the art overall. Historically names like Rembradt and Durer come to mind, and more recently, L.D. Nimschke, Gustav Young, Griebel, E.C Prudhomme, Alvin White, Ray Virmontez, John Rohner. Renown teachers of the art current or past like Jim Small, Neil Hartleip, John Barraclough, George Sherwood, Sam Alfano or Brian Marshall. Inventors and suppliers like Ray Phillips, Don Glaser and Steve Lindsay of course, People who are currently working whose style is greatly admired or copied like Eric Gold, Ron Smith or of course Steve Lindsay. People who greatly promoted the work or authored books like John Amber, or Ken Warner, Tom Turpin, or Roger Bleile . Those who tops in the field today like Ray Cover, Ken Hunt, Sam Alfano or Phillipe Grifnee, or multiple Italian , German and Austrian engravers. Not just gun engraving but tops in other fields historically such as motorcycle or banjo work. This list in this paragraph is not meant to be all inclusive, I could add to any of the categories, these were just some names I am throwing out that quickly come to mind, so that you can help me get a list that IS all inclusive.

Thanks for your help, I look forward to everyone’s list. Please post them here in this thread so other can see the names and not need to duplicate. I will assimilate them in a spread sheet so they can be easily sorted alphabetically and then repost the lists so they can quickly be scanned to see if a name is left off. If it’s a name I don’t recognize, I will contact you for more details about who they are and why they should be included.

[Dave London]

Humm
Might want to put that guy whats his name some where in the hills of Tenn, on that list. I thought he was/is a excellent teacher/engraver. Dave

[sam]

Alain Lovenberg
Firmo Fracassi
Winston Churchill
Giancarlo Pedretti
Stefano Pedretti
Gianfranco Pedersoli
Martin Strolz
Lynton S.M. McKenzie
Josef Fugger
Rudolph Kornbrath
Arnold Griebel

[pilkguns]

I know I'm missing names. It's late. Who else should be on the list? Send me a PM with your names that should be added.

[monk]

i can add only 1 i see missing

heide marie hiptmeier

[Ray Cover]

I would probably add Mr. Harry Kell in there.

[deazyner]

I am new to engraving but one engraver's work that I really admire is Chris Meyer. I see that he lives in New Jersey but can't find much about him and have never heard him mentioned in any of these forums. Does anyone on here know him?

[Brian Hochstrat]

I was thinking how few women there, are that are well known but, Julie Warenski, Lisa Tomlin and Franchesca Fracassi, would be good additions to the list.

[sam]

Scott: Ben Lane

[JT Kinney]

Howard Grant
Ron Lutz, his work is pictured on page 121 of Custom Firearms Engraveing By Tom Turpin