derekdarling wrote:
I am considering hacking an old printer to move the wood directly under the print-head. I looked into direct-transfer paper (mostly for iron-on transfers to cloth), but didn't like the resulting mess.
Have you tried a laser printer?? I have printed designs with regular paper with a laser printer and then just use an iron to heat the toner and transfer it to the wood. Like an iron on without the mess.
If you don't have a laser printer. Print with inkjet and then make a dark photo copy, I have heard that will work as well.
Toner is not ink, it is powdered plastic that is fused to the paper.
For text, remember to print a mirror image as that it how it transfers.
It's not perfect , but it will transfer most of the image and provide a good starting point.
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Terry
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1955 Shopsmith Mark 5 S/N 296860 Workshop and Tools
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A friend of mine said he uses a transfer paper to put patterns on rifle stocks. He copies off of the scanner onto the paper that he gets from these folks; http://www.graphictransfer.net They also have a phone number of 1.866.453.2652. He places the paper on the area to be carved and carves through the paper. It must stick to the wood pretty good as he does some outstanding work. Very nice work by the way:)
terrydowning wrote:Have you tried a laser printer?? I have printed designs with regular paper with a laser printer and then just use an iron to heat the toner and transfer it to the wood. Like an iron on without the mess.
If you don't have a laser printer. Print with inkjet and then make a dark photo copy, I have heard that will work as well.
Thanks, terrydowning, I have a stock of carbon paper but I never thought to bypass that and iron the ink-jet print. I'll give that a try!
Derek
Derek Darling
Surrey, B.C. Canada
10ERs, other stuff, you know.
derekdarling wrote:Thanks, terrydowning, I have a stock of carbon paper but I never thought to bypass that and iron the ink-jet print. I'll give that a try!
Derek
NOT Ink jet!
Ink jet printers (as the name states) squirt ink onto the paper and it is absorbed into the paper. Ironing it gets you flat, hot paper.
Use Laser print or photocopy only. These use toner (powdered plastic) which is melted onto the paper. This is why photocopies and laser prints are warm when they come out. By applying an iron, you reheat the plastic and can transfer it to the wood. Again, this is not the best quality, but for outlining carving and scroll work projects, it does the job a lot faster than tracing with carbon paper.
Also remember, it is a reverse (mirror image) of your print.
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Terry
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1955 Shopsmith Mark 5 S/N 296860 Workshop and Tools
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[quote="terrydowning"]NOT Ink jet!
Ink jet printers (as the name states) squirt ink onto the paper and it is absorbed into the paper. Ironing it gets you flat, hot paper.
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Yup, I should have said... I got that. Make a photo-copy of the inkjet print, and iron that. I have access to a photo-copier, but alas, no laser printer. Thanks for pointing that out, however.
Derek
Derek Darling
Surrey, B.C. Canada
10ERs, other stuff, you know.
derekdarling wrote:
I have been looking at CNC machines, but then... it wouldn't be 'hand-carved', would it? Thanks for the kind words.
If you look at the prices of wood carvings on etsy, no way is every piece of waste removed by hand. cnc does the rough cut and the artist hand carves what's left.
Doing it that way is still genuine hand carved imo, as it's the human quality that makes the piece.
Very nice work by the way:)
