Describa su profesión, con detalles sobre sus productos, servicios, habilidades específicas y know how
I work with fine and miniature inlays and engravings on wood and metal. The combination of these several crafts apply primarily to:
- Craftsmanship and artistic decoration of different types of knives
- Engravings and decoration of pistols and revolvers
- Decoration of hunting gunstocks, including floral ornamentation and hunting scenes
- Production and decoration of jewelry boxes, and wood-carved knick-knacks, etc.
¿Qué materiales se utilizan? ¿Donde y como los encuentras?
I use a variety of natural materials in my work
- The wood I use is mainly walnut, pear, boxwood. Additionally, I use apple, cherry, hawthorn, various exotic woods.
- The inlays are made of precious metals, mother of pearl, ivory, mammoth bone, etc.
- For the knife blades I use high quality stainless steel as well as premium Damascus steel.
- Coating on the wood: the wood is impregnated with natural oils on the basis of flax, beeswax and shellac (according to an old recipe)
¿Cuál es el perfil típico de su clientela?
My work is liked usualy by people with an attitude to beauti, style handmade work that's makes with a human honesty, passion and emotion , with an attitude to everything that industry does not give them, with its ice precision and nothing else.
¿A qué edad y bajo qué circunstancias comenzó este trabajo?
I have been doing this professionally since 1995, when I was 26 years old.
But it all started much earlier, and developed imperceptibly. Interest turned into strong interest. And then into a passion, which in turn turned into a hobby, which eventually became my profession, which I work with this same passion and love.
The biggest role played, however, was the chance to learn and master the craft and the opportunity to work with the best in my country.
¿Dónde y cuánto tiempo ha recibido instrucción antes de estar listo para comenzar su propio negocio? ¿En un instituto de formación, con un artesano o ambos? ¿Cuál cree que es la mejor manera de aprender su trabajo hoy? ¿Escuelas, formación con artesanos ...?
I learned the craft in the workshop, from the well-known master in my country, Svetlozar Raichanov. I owe my first (and not only the first) steps to him.
Describa las técnicas, las herramientas y los materiales que utiliza en su trabajo.
Of course, it all starts with a piece of paper, a pencil, good music, and a cup of coffee. I love this initial stage - then anything is possible.
In the process of work, I use chisels and gravers of different geometry, striving to observe good practices and technologies in our craft, without which a good, valuable, quality and lasting result cannot be possible
¿Qué papel desempeñan el "talento" y la "creatividad" en su profesión?
Talent and creativity, together with good skills, experience, knowledge, and of course love this art, are everything in our profession. A good result is impossible without even one of these components.
¿Y qué hay de la innovación, ¿cuáles son los cambios desde que empezó? ¿Utiliza nuevos materiales, herramientas o procesos en la fabricación y comercialización? ¿Cuál es el impacto de la innovación en su rendimiento? ¿Cómo podría ser tu profesión aún más innovadora?
Like everything around us, crafts also develop along with people, their needs and tastes.
In general, everything is done in the same old way, but new technologies allow us to work with a good magnification of detail, and our work can become more precise.
If our art shows not only its final result, but also the process of work and its magic sincerity, with this, it only would win.
¿Cuál es la mejor manera de aprender tu profesión?
The best way to do that , of course, is to work in the studio, under the supervision of a Master. But in the 21st century, we should not neglect a good book, video lesson, master class, internet communication between like-minded people from different places in the world.
¿Cuál es su mensaje para las generaciones más jóvenes que podrían elegir su profesión?
My advice to young colleagues is - to work hard, to demand the maximum from themselves, to not stop developing. There will always be a place for a good and talented artisan in this world.