Poor Frank Raw
@poorfrankraw.co.uk
Hand carved, often sweary, lettering on stone. Brace yourself.
Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Nobody gets out of here alive.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Nobody gets out of here alive.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
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And this nerve running through K ⚡
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
FECK is in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And this nerve running through K ⚡
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
FECK is in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
FECK is in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
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Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
Carving Birra Lambic (www.commarts.com/project/3371...) is proving challenging. The thicks are very thick, the thins have teeny weeny triangular terminals and the curves are very tight. Looks good but I'm glad I picked a short swear 😬
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Carving Birra Lambic (www.commarts.com/project/3371...) is proving challenging. The thicks are very thick, the thins have teeny weeny triangular terminals and the curves are very tight. Looks good but I'm glad I picked a short swear 😬
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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A commercial… for a font?
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A commercial… for a font?
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
Autumn is still rocking hereabouts:
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Autumn is still rocking hereabouts:
Finished polishing the family silver (not a euphemism); boxed up all the polishing equipment; tomorrow I'll dismantle the polishing booth in the corner of the workshop. The collected dirt, grease, fluff and polishing compound of a decade of silver polishing is f.i.l.t.h.y.
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finished polishing the family silver (not a euphemism); boxed up all the polishing equipment; tomorrow I'll dismantle the polishing booth in the corner of the workshop. The collected dirt, grease, fluff and polishing compound of a decade of silver polishing is f.i.l.t.h.y.
Hahahahaha
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hahahahaha
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Secretly here — as I've got only a few followers so far :)
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
November 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Secretly here — as I've got only a few followers so far :)
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
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November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The wealth of the 10 richest Americans has soared by $700 billion since Trump was reelected.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown.
Two Americas.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown.
Two Americas.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The wealth of the 10 richest Americans has soared by $700 billion since Trump was reelected.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown.
Two Americas.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown.
Two Americas.
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Gonna sound like a weird request, but does anyone know where I can get the audio fx of a large parrot yelling?
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Gonna sound like a weird request, but does anyone know where I can get the audio fx of a large parrot yelling?
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Well strangely I just sold that pair of round bottomed tumblers to a visiting Australian friend 😲 I did regild them since I was in that mode. Hallmarked Sheffield 2003 and 2004, sterling #silver.
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Well strangely I just sold that pair of round bottomed tumblers to a visiting Australian friend 😲 I did regild them since I was in that mode. Hallmarked Sheffield 2003 and 2004, sterling #silver.
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You can practise on-on-on! or no-no-no! depending on whether optimist or pessimist you are 😀
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You can practise on-on-on! or no-no-no! depending on whether optimist or pessimist you are 😀
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
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One of the most used typefaces of mine is ALS Direct, designed in 2006 for way finding, focusing on Cyrillic — for that scale of signs like in shopping malls, airports and in the streets. I already left ArtLebedev Studio, when Direct was chosen to be the default way finding font in Moscow
#font
#font
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
One of the most used typefaces of mine is ALS Direct, designed in 2006 for way finding, focusing on Cyrillic — for that scale of signs like in shopping malls, airports and in the streets. I already left ArtLebedev Studio, when Direct was chosen to be the default way finding font in Moscow
#font
#font
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Anyone on a LNER train today from Scotland to Newcastle - my mum took the wrong suitcase off the train. Her case is somewhere heading southbound. #Newcastle #LNER
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Anyone on a LNER train today from Scotland to Newcastle - my mum took the wrong suitcase off the train. Her case is somewhere heading southbound. #Newcastle #LNER
While I was regilding the chalice I gold plated a few of the EPNS spoons from the kitchen drawer :) I'm THAT fancy.
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
While I was regilding the chalice I gold plated a few of the EPNS spoons from the kitchen drawer :) I'm THAT fancy.