{"id":311,"date":"2017-02-24T01:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2020-11-07T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T20:12:27","slug":"sterling-silver-scribner-ranch-brand-overlay-medallions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Silver Scribner Ranch Brand Overlay Medallions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medallions-overlay_scribner_brand.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medallions-overlay_scribner_brand.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medallions-overlay_scribner_brand-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medallions-overlay_scribner_brand-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medallions-overlay_scribner_brand-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/medallions-overlay_scribner_brand-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Sterling silver Scribner Ranch Brand <strong>overlay<\/strong> pistol grip <strong>medallions<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A pair of <strong>overlay medallions<\/strong> I created for my brother, Jeff, of our family&#8217;s brand used on the High Mesa Ranch in Alto, NM. Called the &#8220;Hip-Rafter &#8216;S'&#8221; brand, the design was reproduced by my nephew Shane in a scalable vector graphic format for other projects of his, but that format also allowed me to shrink it down to fit nicely within a 1\/2&#8243; circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The medallions are to be inset in a pair of grip panels on a Colt 1911. The craftsman making those panels recommended they be the same size as Colt&#8217;s medallions (1\/2&#8243;), and Jeff suggested to also texture the backs for better adhesion to the epoxy used when inset into the grip panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pierced overlay was cut from 16 ga. sterling sheet with a 6\/0 saw blade, and when soldered onto a 20 ga. sterling sheet back, makes for a nice combined stack of about 12 ga. in thickness before the checkering on the back in done. After diamond-checkering the backs of the medallions with a cross-cut file to increase the surface area for better adhesion to the epoxy, the finished medallions came out to about 1.8 mm thick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being so small (and because checkering needs carefully repeated and aligned strokes to form the grooves), I set the medallion into shellac on a block, which is then held in a vise.  After the filing is done, a little heat from the torch releases it, and a soak in denatured alcohol removes any remaining shellac. That&#8217;s also a good way to secure small stuff like earrings, making stone setting a LOT easier to do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He later sent me a photograph of the 1911 with the grip panels mounted, and it looks just totally awesome. Oh, and the medallions inset in the grip panels look great, too. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of overlay medallions I created for my brother, Jeff, of our family&#8217;s brand used on the High Mesa Ranch in Alto, NM. Called the &#8220;Hip-Rafter &#8216;S&#8217;&#8221; brand, the design was reproduced by my nephew Shane in a scalable vector graphic format for other projects of his, but that format also allowed me to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sterling Silver Scribner Ranch Brand Overlay Medallions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}