Whipped this up in inkscape this morning. Turned out pretty nice.
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Looks great! Are you a history buff?
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Turned out so nice! The ForgeFamily strikes again! 
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hmmm hmm.
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Love it!
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Absolutely. My home is decorated with significant moments in revolutionary history. This is the latest addition (and first that I made myself)
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Not sure what the gif is implyingā¦but thanks?
Looks like a great job!
What is that youāre printing it on - a piece of wood?
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I love history. If you havenāt seen it yet, Iāve been enjoying videos from https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson. Typically, itās a lot more mundane than The Revolutionary War. Still pretty interesting. I did like what Iāve seen of the HBO series John Adams, but I havenāt been able to get through it due to all the crap I have to get done from day to day.
Currenly, Iāve been a bit more into the 1800s, though, and wear clothes from www.historicalemporium.com when Iām not mucking about in dirt or roofing tile goop and what have you.
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Itās these planks from hobby lobby. With coupon they work out to ~ 7 bucks.
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Radā¦Iāll check out that channel. Iām not super āstrictā on my history. I really enjoyed the wildly inaccurate Sons of Liberty that History did not too long ago. Frankly, if it makes people interested in learning about ārealā history via a āfunā show that they can enjoyā¦I fully support it.
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I hadnāt seen the ones with the rough natural edgesā¦that looks pretty sharp!
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Nice subject and engrave!
āGentlemen we need to hang together, for we will surely hang separately.ā - Benjamin Franklin, if memory serves 
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āBlind we are notā - Yoda
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Yupāthis is one of his political cartoons. If anyone is interested, you can find all sorts of cool historical stuff like this thatās now public domain on the Library of Congress site and also DocsTeach on the National Archives. (Sorryā¦the librarian in me canāt resist sharing a good resource!)
As @klipper found out, it takes a bit of cleanup in Inkscape for some of the older stuff, but hereās a link to the original on the LOC site:
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Happy to share my SVG if anyone would like to make one of their own.
DM me.
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And if youāre ever in DC you can get a library card for the LOC and get access to the collection in the original dead tree versions. Pretty awesome being able to request them to pull a book from the 1600s and they actually bring it to you and let you read it! (Or get good photos of pages of interest for later engraving 
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And itās free! Your taxes at work.
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It is nice to see where some peopleās memes have a real source.
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Squeee! 
The LOC is the one place I really wanted to see when I was in DC on a history teachers trip a few years agoā¦they were closed on our one unscheduled day!
I felt the same way in the archives at the Henry Ford museumā¦we were trying to find info about the change from the Model T to the A for a lesson plan, and they brought out all sorts of stuff for usā¦old newspaper ads, time cards, interoffice memos, letters from customersā¦unreal to hold that stuff in your hands!
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