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First coat of clear on this batch!

One sign from the batch. They will be sanded and recleared.

But what kind of wood is this? Kind of a darker green/gray with yellow highlights. Found a few boards in the pallets that I cut up. I like the markings.

Probably Poplar

Thanks,
I was suspicious of that. But most of the poplar that I see is more straight grained, not this dark, and kind of "blah" compared to this.

ddub wrote:Thanks,
I was suspicious of that. But most of the poplar that I see is more straight grained, not this dark, and kind of "blah" compared to this.

Maybe that is why it ended up in a pallet.

Well I happen to like the looks of it! I am the king of "not blah" LOL

Wild colors, pearls and metalflake are my specialty!

That metalflake Scorpion looks like the one I used to drive.

Very nice work.

I'm playing a little catch up here as I've been out of town. I like how this idea is spreading to include some details. Of course some of it is making sense of the process to see if it would be worth the effort to invest more time in to the area.

I have software and the expertise to make designs and print them. I have made stencils but have to hand cut them. I use stencil materials from the local craft store which work but are on the light side for anything more then painting(guessing here). It is a plastic material for that purpose.

What interests me is how one cuts out a design other then by hand. I have seen a plotter looking device that cuts instead of drawing but they appear to be expensive pieces of machinery. So anyone know of something in the less expense category that would be able to do a good job? Would be nice to have one for a lot of projects so versatility would be important to me.

So how thick does the material have to be to do this light sandblasting. I remember Norm visiting some place to have a project done using this sort of idea but it is too cloudy to remember more then that. I also seem to recall someone here who does glass this way, no?

Anyway I'd like to here more about the process.

Ed

reible wrote:I'm playing a little catch up here as I've been out of town. I like how this idea is spreading to include some details. Of course some of it is making sense of the process to see if it would be worth the effort to invest more time in to the area.

I have software and the expertise to make designs and print them. I have made stencils but have to hand cut them. I use stencil materials from the local craft store which work but are on the light side for anything more then painting(guessing here). It is a plastic material for that purpose.

What interests me is how one cuts out a design other then by hand. I have seen a plotter looking device that cuts instead of drawing but they appear to be expensive pieces of machinery. So anyone know of something in the less expense category that would be able to do a good job? Would be nice to have one for a lot of projects so versatility would be important to me.

So how thick does the material have to be to do this light sandblasting. I remember Norm visiting some place to have a project done using this sort of idea but it is too cloudy to remember more then that. I also seem to recall someone here who does glass this way, no?

Anyway I'd like to here more about the process.

Ed

Scrapbookers use these: http://www.cricutmachine.com/index.php
I don't know what you mean by expensive, but these will cut many different materials. They are in the $200-$250 range, it looks like.

My wife has a Cricut machine that she uses for scrapbooking, and she tells me that it can cut vinyl. The cutting head is a reciprocating needle, sorta like a one-pin dot-matrix printer. It cuts by perforating.

We bought ours new several years ago, but nowadays there seems to be a plentiful supply of them on CL for $50 - $100.

My wife tells me that you can create custom words on them, no problem. But the "artwork" must be purchased on expensive pre-loaded cartridges. Last I checked, there was no way to download your own graphics from a computer. But who knows, maybe someone has figured out a way to "jailbreak" them by now.