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MAKING YOUR MARK  

The MAKER’S MARK Bourbon bottle above was done for a birthday last year and will be featured in a new ebook I’m feverishly working on.  It will be a book having about 250 different toasts for lovers, birthdays, anniversaries, appreciations, congratulations, and a other special categories.  There will be a variety of spicy, serious, and catchy phrases that will be perfect accompaniments for wine and spirits bottles as gifts.  

Whether or not the toasts are engraved on a bottle is immaterial.  It’s the content that will be useful to so many out there who love the idea of just the right message to go with the wine or liquor.  Many will type the verse or do it in Calligraphy on a nice piece of paper.  That piece of paper, rolled up with a bright red ribbon and given with the bottle will do the trick just as well.   

-Ken Brown • 214.250.6958

Every time I’m in the public, I see tattoos.  

They’re on ankles, shoulders, arms, calves, necks, and halfway down to the nipples on, sometimes, absolutely beautiful women.  Where there are words, often the lettering is done with a fair amount of style and flair. The tattoo artist, through his or her pulsating, ink-laden needle, is expressing the wrath, the love, the machoness, the idiocy, or the screaming for attention of the wearer of this, in my opinion, totally absurd riddling of one’s skin with ink in a rainbow of colors.  But who am I to express contempt at this art form?  Had I been exposed to a tattoo parlor at the tender age of 20 instead of the Oklahoma State University Architectural 101 class, I might just have taken up this artistic form of expression instead of the Calligraphy that infected my total being in one day in a class of 50 kids.  Good thing.  The sight of blood sickens me.  The sight of needles penetrating human skin makes me break out in hot sweats.  Give me ink and a pen on paper or a high-speed rotary drill on just about anything and I’m rooting around in that proverbial hog heaven.

 The tattoo above, I did not see in person but ran across a photo.  It has a message.  To you.  Regardless who you are, where you are, what you do, or what you don’t do, this says that, at the least, YOU can change your own world.  The books and philosophers are filled with platitudes and inspirational messages to get you off your arse and make something of yourself.  Of course, you and I know you’ve already done that, but now you have time on your hands and probably not enough jingles and green in your pockets.  

There is another message in the photo.  Whoever the person is who had the bucks and guts to turn their back into a billboard, had his/her body personalized.  No name is associated but there IS personalization that makes this person different.  

I do this every day for other people, but in a slightly different way.  No needle-on-skin, but drill-on just about anything else.  The words of my customers express love, congratulations, affection, cajoling, and sometimes a proposal for marriage on a tall, gorgeous bottle of wine.  Or a piece of crystal.  Or a cremation urn.  Or a dildo.  A crystal one at that.  (Geeze, I wish I had taken a photo of that one!!)  There’s no pain.  No blood.  No swelling of tissue.  And the price is probably far more for the minutes taken to personalize the object than the tattoo artist might imagine for the minutes spent on skin.  Now, I’ll probably hear from some master tattooer calling my hand on that.  So be it.  My hand speaks for itself. 

But rest assured in this. Anyone who can tie his/her shoes, hold a pencil, has no neurological problems or lousy vision, and can put one foot in front of the other, can learn hand-engraving with a dental drill.  So, let the blood-letting continue in those dimly-lit parlors parlaying skulls and crossbones and all the other creative art people want on their person.  There’s a classier world out there for anyone wanting to make people of all ages smile when they receive something engraved that ONLY a hand and a drill can do.

You know you’ve wanted to do this.  Last scheduled Seminar of 2012.

FOUR seats remain.  Christmas is coming.

214.250.6958

DON’T SLEEP THROUGH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

Last minute signup for May 18, 19, 20 Class.  

TWO people on same enrollment:  TOTAL $2000.  (Reg $1500. ea.)  

ONE person enrolling:  $1100.  Equipment provided in Class.  No need to purchase.

Only other Seminar booked for 2012 is in July.  Full $1500. ea.  for July session.

DETAILS.

-Ken Brown 214.250.6958

to enroll or with your questions.  

Daughter & Mother.  One year into hand-engraving.  

See the BrownLines™ featuring them.

 At current U.S. population figures, there is 1 Ken Brown Engraving Student for every 1,140,000 people.  The small sprinkling of us cannot possibly handle the enormous demand for personalized items from lockets to wine bottles to guns and knives to crystal and sporting goods equipment.  And zillions of other things.  

I just booked 22 wine events for one Texas chain and there are more events to come in addition to those….and those are just in MY area where I can be in only one store at a time.  

Our Seminar schedule has been cut to May and July for 2012.  If you’re interested in learning how to rank with the hourly rates of some of the attorneys, doctors, and plumbers you know, now is the time to make the move to change your life.  Just like Lew Jensen changed mine with the dental drill in 1992.  I’m ready to teach you all I know.  

Details.  

-Ken Brown  214.250.6958