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    Quote Originally Posted by joella View Post
    Hi

    James,
    another wonderful piece from you, as always! Probably a very silly basic question, but how did you get the 'reeded' effect for the background? I'd love to know, it looks great.
    Hi Joella,
    That pattern is cut using a line tool scorper, which is a scorper that has parallel lines cut into it's flat cutting face. Some sellers call them shading tools in their graver section.

    This is a new one from my tool box.
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    James
    Last edited by Goldsmith; 18-05-2016 at 08:01 AM.

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