Don't know how Francesco Amatori's "ART" was missed?

Dave, thanks for the additional information on Francesco and his work.

The detail and life like appearance in both his scrimshaw and engraving is absolutely amazing.
Not sure which I'm impressed with more, the combination of the scrim and engraving in the Lake, Tiger motif in the Hoel or the scrim of the American Indian.

Thanks for the responses everyone.
 
Here is a bowie handle of elephant ivory that was scrimmed by Linda Karst Stone. I have a Coop pic of the knife before the scrim and a pic of the handle alone with scrim,leaves a little to the imagination to put it together.:eek:
 

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GREAT stuff Kevin. I am VERY aware of Francesco Amatori's engraving and scrim, but didn't know he was a painter as well. Amongst my favorites are the transitions from beast to beauty.

His work is amongst the VERY best.

For those that enjoy David's books on knives, Blue Book publications did great books about Gianfranco Pedersoli and Firmo Fricassi that I would HIGHLY recommend.

They are to engravers, what DDD's books are to knife lovers. They are available through FEGA if not on Amazon.

Thanks Kevin.

Peter
 
That level of talent is beyond incredible, it is, well it's BEYOND INCREDIBLE.

The detail in his engraving is astounding, and the clarity of the subject matter highlights his skills perfectly.

Chuck
 
Thanks Kevin It is nice to see such fine work like this. And to see that scrim is not a lost craft. could someone give a guess as to how many people can do scrim at this level, is it 10 is it 100?
 
Holy Bulino, Batman!!!!! Thats some good looking scratchin' there!:thumbup: Like someone else said, I am not normally a big fan of scrim. but in this case, it works on the chosen "canvases" quite well. I guess that is why this gentleman is a fine artist and I am not...lol.
A lot of us here on BF may not have known who he was, but some folks elsewhere obviously did because all of that engraving and scrim are on knives that are worth more BEFORE engraving than some of us may have paid paid for our first and possible for our second car. :D
 
peterinct said:
GREAT stuff Kevin. I am VERY aware of Francesco Amatori's engraving and scrim, but didn't know he was a painter as well. Amongst my favorites are the transitions from beast to beauty.

His work is amongst the VERY best.

For those that enjoy David's books on knives, Blue Book publications did great books about Gianfranco Pedersoli and Firmo Fricassi that I would HIGHLY recommend.

They are to engravers, what DDD's books are to knife lovers. They are available through FEGA if not on Amazon.

Thanks Kevin.

Peter
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I thought you were probably aware of his work Peter. I really like his Portrait for Eric Clapton as well.

D lisch said:
Thanks Kevin It is nice to see such fine work like this. And to see that scrim is not a lost craft. could someone give a guess as to how many people can do scrim at this level, is it 10 is it 100?
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Realize I know very little about scrimshaw, however I would put Francesco at the top of my list based solely on the American Indian scrim.
 
I don't want to be rude, but... how much does it cost to have a knife engraved by this gifted man ?
 
it wasnt missed by me thats for sure.
i met him in italy years ago and his work is second to none.
amatori and fracassi share the throne...
 
Patrick M. said:
I don't want to be rude, but... how much does it cost to have a knife engraved by this gifted man ?
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You asked what I expect others are wondering.
Though I don't know, I would imagine in-line with the other handful of top-tier engravers. Must be very pains taking and time consuming work.
 
D lisch said:
could someone give a guess as to how many people can do scrim at this level, is it 10 is it 100?
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Ellis said:
Amatore ,although being fairly new to the scene, is becoming one of the finest engravers in the World.
I am currently having him do a piece where he scrims/engraves on Pearl.
In my humble opinion it is currently Fracassi and Torcoli at numbers one and two,Amatore is surely not far behind. Creative Arts of Italy has marvelous artist's and Steve Lindsay and Ron Skaggs are certainly no slouches.
Kevin,thanks for posting all of incredible stuff, and the guy keeps getting better!!
Dave
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looks like maybe 5 from Daves post.
 
These are among the finest examples of engraving and scrim art I have seen. I suspect the cost is high but look at the results. There is scrim and there is this quality of scrim.

So much of this caliber of work is kept in a safe and not publically shared but thats whats so great about what the Darom books do for us. David is allowed in and photographs some of the finest collections in the world.

Art is for our enjoyment and Wow, I enjoyed this thread. Thanks Kevin.
 
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