Warriors & Legends Engraving Styles

Warriors & Legends gathers the fighting traditions engravers ask for most on grips, slides, knife bolsters and blades. The Spartan Warrior leads the family with a crested Corinthian helmet, raised spear and chevron shield, joined by the Spartan Lambda Shield, Hoplite Phalanx and Corinthian Helmet Scroll. Rome brings the Legion Eagle and Gladiator Helmet; the North brings the Viking Longship, Valkyrie Warrior, Norse Berserker and Crossed Battle Axes; and the Templar Cross Shield, Crusader Knight, Highland Claymore, Samurai Warrior and Winged Hussar round out the line. Every style keeps its warrior whole inside the part and lets laurel, meander, knotwork or scroll carry the design to the edges, so the subject is never cropped. Shields carry plain geometric devices only, never lettering.

Materials these styles are tuned for: firearms, leather, metal, tumblers, wood.

21 styles in this family

Athena Owl — The owl of Athena with olive branches in ancient Greek coin-art style Best for metal, wood, tumblers, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Aztec Jaguar Warrior — An Aztec jaguar warrior with obsidian club and feathered shield Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Corinthian Helmet Scroll — Crested Greek Corinthian helmet framed by flowing acanthus scrollwork Best for metal, wood, tumblers, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Crossed Battle Axes — Two crossed bearded battle axes over a round knotwork shield Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Crusader Knight — A great-helmed crusader knight with sword raised and a cross shield Best for metal, wood, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Gladiator Helmet — Roman gladiator murmillo helmet with grille visor, trident and net Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Highland Claymore — Crossed Scottish claymores with a round targe, thistles and knotwork Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Hoplite Phalanx — A rank of Greek hoplites advancing shield to shield with spears leveled Best for metal, wood, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Mongol Horse Archer — A Mongol archer drawing a recurve bow from a galloping horse Best for metal, wood, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Norse Berserker — A Norse berserker in a bear-skin cloak with axe and shield Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Roman Legion Eagle — Roman legionary eagle standard with wreath, crossed gladii and banners Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Samurai Warrior — A samurai in full armor with a drawn katana among cherry blossoms Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Spartan Lambda Shield — Round Spartan hoplite shield with the lambda chevron, crossed spears and laurel Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Spartan Spears & Laurel — Crossed Spartan spears and short sword wrapped in a victory laurel wreath Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Spartan Warrior — The 300th Style DNA: a Spartan hoplite in crested helmet with spear and lambda shield Best for metal, wood, leather, tumblers, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Templar Cross Shield — A Knights Templar heater shield with a cross pattee and crossed swords Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Thermopylae Stand — Spartans holding the narrow pass at Thermopylae behind a wall of shields Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Trojan Horse Frieze — The wooden horse of Troy before the city walls in black-figure frieze style Best for metal, wood, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Valkyrie Warrior — A winged-helm Valkyrie with spear and round shield Best for metal, wood, leather, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Viking Longship — A dragon-prowed Viking longship with shields along the rail Best for metal, wood, tumblers, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator
Winged Hussar — A Polish winged hussar charging with lance and feathered wings Best for metal, wood, firearms. Use this style in The Fabricator

Using the Warriors & Legends styles

Open the Fabricator, load the outline of the part you are engraving, and choose a style from this family. The pattern is generated to fill your outline rather than pasted over it, so the result fits the part instead of being cropped to it. Run a test on matching scrap before committing a production piece — density that reads perfectly on coated metal can close up on open-grain wood, and the fix is usually speed or an extra pass rather than more power.