My customers. They ask me for advice when they want to have an intimate object engraved. If it's a name, I suggest different styles of calligraphy. If it's a drawing, I translate their wish into a sketch. We continue to work together until the result meets their expectations.

A great accomplishment I was very proud of; it was an engraved scene depicting wild horses galloping across the plains of the American West. This drawing was engraved on the brass plaque of a Winchester.

It is not always about good technical execution; it is the attainment of a state of serenity. It is when you know that you have managed to convey the customer’s emotion through the engraving.

Tradition continues through the ancestral tools used for engraving, which are in themselves museum pieces, and through the objects being engraved , which are often antiques. Innovation can be seen in the contemporary design of the engraving.