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Nice job...but is this cut vinyl? I can't figure out how you surgically removed what was already pressed on...
Talent Frog!I used the swivel knife which was about $1.01 more, sheesh.Also how about the "Double-Blade" Exacto which allowed to cutparallel lines, straight or curved - Ooooo..... Still have it somewhere.
I'm sure everybody remembers the first time you ever cut amberlith and spent twenty minutes cutting out a design only to realize that you had gone all the way through the backing. DOH!
Quote from: Ripcord on April 19, 2015, 01:03:25 PMI'm sure everybody remembers the first time you ever cut amberlith and spent twenty minutes cutting out a design only to realize that you had gone all the way through the backing. DOH!Back in the summer of '69 (sounds like a song, don't it?) I got my first introduction to "Silk Screening" in the art department of Merritt College in Oakland CA printing yardage.We got our necessary supplies from the college bookstore. Frames with real silk, and a knifecut indirect Ulano waterproof stencil film (a precursor to their present day Stay Sharp.)It had a wax paper backing that helped develop the light hand by showing a distinct white line indicating too much pressure even without cutting all of the way through. We learned, at least with that film, that almost the weight of the knife was sufficient, and it helped keep clean lines when peeled and adhered (of course the lacquer thinner adhering routing was not without its own pitfalls)With materials like the various heat seal films, it's a different ballgame, and they require a lot more pressure. I cut the vinyl, off of it's backing sheet, lightly glued to a paper print of the desired shape. With light enough color films, I print in reverse, glue the paper to the color side, and cut on my light table (with a clear cutting mat)With dark films, I have the paper right-reading on the color side, and cut through it as well.With a glue stick, if there is any residue of glue or paper, it's easily removed with water.As I said, good to know in an emergency, but not something to want to rely upon too often.Not quite up to showing off skills by hand drawing or painting a phony postage stamp but at times, a valuable a payoff for the time spent.
Quote from: GaryG on April 19, 2015, 10:19:51 AMTalent Frog!I used the swivel knife which was about $1.01 more, sheesh.Also how about the "Double-Blade" Exacto which allowed to cutparallel lines, straight or curved - Ooooo..... Still have it somewhere.Nope, the good ball bearing swivels the guys in my shops used, I believe may have come from Ulano, and were a little closer to $10(big bucks in 1978!) They held a tiny blade.The Grifold (I think that's it) held a swiveling offset blade more akin to the standard X-Acto, and the handle came to to a fine taper. Perhaps X-Acto had a similar cheapie, but I don't remember ever seeing it.I also had a couple of different circle cutters, one from Grifold, that had two pieces that went on a standard ruler or yardstick.