camperjohn
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Since I am going to be tearing apart my High Speed in the next few months and putting it back together restored, I wanted to start a single thread.
Today I cut and tested my stencil cutting ability on some acetate. I spray painted on some old wood to see how it goes.
All I tested was the Williams logo, and a circle. Here is what I am trying to reproduce:
http://mirror1.ipdb.org/images/1176/image-4.jpg
I am big fan of point form:
- I discovered that cutting is eary, but perfection is not.
- The circles looked ok but not perfect.
- The yellow circle, placed next to the red circle, made it so obvious that neither circle was round. Individually they looked ok. Toegether..oi vay!
- Overspray was a problem as the plastic comes in rolls, and doesn't lay flat on the wood.
- Using a clothing iron, I put the plastic on a wood base, put a t-shirt on top, then ironed the plastic flat
- Re-spraying the stencil with the now perfectly flat plastic gave no overspray.
http://www.bodydot.com/viewgallery?id=45838
http://www.bodydot.com/photo-l0QgDKhs6fhXcPuQ-High-Speed-Restoration.html
http://www.bodydot.com/photo-l0QgDKhs6fhXcPuR-High-Speed-Restoration.html
From this, I learned that I will make the stecils on Adobe Illustrator, then go get them cut on a machine. I will return with new information on what those results looks like.
John
Today I cut and tested my stencil cutting ability on some acetate. I spray painted on some old wood to see how it goes.
All I tested was the Williams logo, and a circle. Here is what I am trying to reproduce:
http://mirror1.ipdb.org/images/1176/image-4.jpg
I am big fan of point form:
- I discovered that cutting is eary, but perfection is not.
- The circles looked ok but not perfect.
- The yellow circle, placed next to the red circle, made it so obvious that neither circle was round. Individually they looked ok. Toegether..oi vay!
- Overspray was a problem as the plastic comes in rolls, and doesn't lay flat on the wood.
- Using a clothing iron, I put the plastic on a wood base, put a t-shirt on top, then ironed the plastic flat
- Re-spraying the stencil with the now perfectly flat plastic gave no overspray.
http://www.bodydot.com/viewgallery?id=45838
http://www.bodydot.com/photo-l0QgDKhs6fhXcPuQ-High-Speed-Restoration.html
http://www.bodydot.com/photo-l0QgDKhs6fhXcPuR-High-Speed-Restoration.html
From this, I learned that I will make the stecils on Adobe Illustrator, then go get them cut on a machine. I will return with new information on what those results looks like.
John
