Recently, Martin Strolz of Austria traveled to the United States to instruct his 5-day Grand Masters course at the GRS Training Center.

His advanced course allowed experienced students to learn some of his techniques for designing layouts and engraving firearms. This demonstration piece is a "finished" example of the techniques. Strolz has purposely left the plate progressively unfinished. The plate shows various stages of execution so that it is easy to see the steps in between a blank plate and a finished work.

The work here goes from outline cuts on the left to background cutting and modeling to the final stage on the right side of the plate. Strolz has taken a silicone mold of this very special progressive plate that will be available as plastic castings from FEGA.

Strolz graciously gave this plate to GRS to be added to the extensive collection of masterful works such as this. Read more about Grand Masters on www.grandmastersprogram.com and learn how you can be part of the exclusive 2-week masters course in 2010.