"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Going through a drawer in my art desk/lightable and found these puppies
I was going thru a drawer the other day and found a roll of rubylith.Does this mean we're old..........
I remember them when i worked at a screen supplier many moons ago. I recall that they were like erasers on old stats I think?
I seen guys with swivel exactos that could cut out detail unimaginable today, sign printers mostly.
Rubylith has great edge quality. The key we found is to develop a great cutting technique in one direction with a steady arm and hand and then spin the art underneath to use that same precise motion on all cuts. Easy to repair mistakes with opaque ink and a #2 Rapidograph on the back side. Save that Rubylith, it is so hard to find nowadays. Being able to cut arched block lettering or Times New Roman was sheer magic back then that we can all do now with warp in Illustrator in a split second. We made our own cutters out of old #2 Red Sable touch up brushes by breaking off a bit of a straight edge razor blade and sliding it into a slot on the wooden end of the brush and gluing it in after lashing it with dacron fishing line(before swivel knives and monofilament mesh were invented!). Allowed for much easier smooth tight curves since you could spin the thin wooden brush handle. Great tool for the screen room. You can lay a rectangle over a top of screens to prevent light contamination, block out one end of the screen to do different exposure times if needed on fine copy, put over lights or windows to make screen room safe or use a large rectangle in a step test. Love the stuff.
Not sure if these are what you are looking for Tony: https://www.artsupplywarehouse.com/finelineDisplay.php?id=292030 I have used them in the past to draw directly on the screen. For those who have never tried this it is an amazing way to make a screen. You draw directly on the screen and achieve incredible tonals, coat with white glue and the wax crayon resists the glue. Been awhile since I've done this. The hard part is you can never make another screen like it again.