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Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #718873 by WiseOldOwl
Aug 1, 2012 5:22am
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In this case, I gathered shavings on my lap and put them in a baggie... I came prepared.
Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
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Reply to: #718808 by marrtians
Aug 1, 2012 5:56am
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And I carved it outside, on my lap, during a softball game. I must be insane!

Do you hold it and turn the material...kind of a 3 dimensional carve? It amazes me!
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Reply to: #715913 by Baqash
Aug 1, 2012 5:58am
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If you seal the pencil transfer with stazon yellow, the pencil image won't smear and you can still see it clearly to carve.

Okay I do not get this please explain, why stazon? Does it stay on the pencil or the non carved part?

phynstar(who just doesn't get it)
Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
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Reply to: #719185 by phynstar
Aug 1, 2012 6:01am
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Okay I do not get this please explain, why stazon? Does it stay on the pencil or the non carved part?

The StazOn stays on all of it; it's a permanent ink. You can still see your lines, but they'll be tinted the color that you use. I can show you some transfers next week if you remind me.

[._.]
Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
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Reply to: #719187 by Aiphid
Aug 1, 2012 6:07am
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I can show you some transfers next week if you remind me.

How do you transfer?

p
Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
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Reply to: #719190 by phynstar
Aug 1, 2012 6:12am
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There's a number of different ways to transfer an image to your block.

The simplest transfer is by pencil. You draw or trace your image into a piece of paper with a soft pencil, like a #2. Then, you put the image face-down on your block and rub the back with something like a spoon or a folding bone. The pencil mark will come off on the block. The Staz-On ink is sometimes used to seal the pencil so it doesn't rub off while you're carving.

In the past, I used to make a toner-based photocopy, put that face-down on the block, and color the back with a Dove blending marker. The xylene in the marker would cause the toner to release from the paper, and it would stick to the rubber. Some use wintergreen, and even others use a small iron, because heat will cause that too, though it can blister your block if you're not careful. The newer the photocopier, the less likely that this method will work well, as newer copiers seem not to release the fused toner as well.

Kirbert has some great information on his web site about using baking parchment to transfer an image printed from your inkjet printer, and that is the method I use now. It's just so precise when you have a detailed image that tracing can't hope to represent well.

Hope that helps.

Thunderbird
Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
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Reply to: #719187 by Aiphid
Aug 1, 2012 6:16am
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I have a photo of Stazon over a parchment paper transfer. Probably not the best example since the images transferred are small words.
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Reply to: #719190 by phynstar
Aug 1, 2012 6:31am
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How do you transfer?

You ask for a transfer pass when you get on the bus or train. ;-)
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Reply to: #719195 by thunderbird
Aug 1, 2012 6:37am
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The simplest transfer is by pencil. [...] The xylene in the marker would cause the toner to release from the paper, and it would stick to the rubber.

Yesterday I actually used both pencil and chemical (acetone in my case) transfer on one stamp. I wanted part to look sharp so I drew it on the computer. The part I wanted to look like it was hand drawn I just drew on the paper. I rubbed to transfer the pencil first then acetone to transfer the toner.
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Reply to: #715863 by bluebirdlover
Aug 1, 2012 7:16am
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Depends....often if I'm not sure how its going, I will stamp it in a light color to check it...

I'm getting so I don't have to do it anymore until near the end.
Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
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Reply to: #719187 by Aiphid
Aug 1, 2012 7:27am
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The StazOn stays on all of it; it's a permanent ink.

Sort of. I found out the other day that leaving your stamp in the sun on the car dashboard for a couple of hours will completely fade the yellow until it's gone.

GJ
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Reply to: #719199 by The Wolf Family
Aug 1, 2012 7:33am
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Aaaaahhhhhh...Mama Wolf....I don't know how you can carve that! Holy Camoly!

I stamp mine with light green plain old cheap Studio G ink....mine are pencil transfers, but they aren't that detailed. If I get a little smear, I just redraw it with pencil right onto the stamp.

Most of my stamps are hand~drawn, or itaken from photos that don't print clearly enough to transfer with any other method.
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Reply to: #719228 by GreenJello
Aug 1, 2012 7:49am
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The StazOn stays on all of it; it's a permanent ink.

Sort of.

Yeah, like all permanent things, it's semi-permanent :)

I end up looking pretty jaundiced after doing a lot of carving.

[._.]
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Reply to: #719231 by FloridaFour
Aug 1, 2012 7:52am
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Mama Wolf....I don't know how you can carve that!

Deal with the devil, blood sacrifice, etc.

[._.]
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Reply to: #719183 by phynstar
Aug 1, 2012 8:39am
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It amazes me less these days. I've gone on and on about the need for maximum magnification when carving. In 2001 I had lasik surgery resulting in about 20/16 vision in both eyes but still needed reading glasses for up-close work. I had been using +3.50 reading glasses together with a table-standing magnifier (about +3, I think) for carving. When it came time to remove chunks, I'd ditch the tabletop magnifier but continue using the reading glasses.

Now my eyesight has gone off in one eye to the point where I need prescription lenses. And, stupid me, I forgot to mention to the eye doc that I could use a prescription for up-close work -- and without such a prescription you can't buy a pair of suitable glasses, although the eyeglass shop assures me that they eye docs are usually only too happy to provide a prescription. I didn't want to pay for another visit to the eye doc, so instead I bought a pair of reading-only prescription glasses ($38 at Wally World) and a pair of clip-on magnifiers. With that combo I can see so well that there's no need for the tabletop magnifier. And now, with this new combo, I find myself picking up the stamp and holding it in my hand while digging out chunks. I haven't hand-held it while doing the initial carving yet, but I can appreciate how it's done -- especially with gouges (I'm mostly a knife carver).
Re: What do you do when you just want to see that image?
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Reply to: #719183 by phynstar
Aug 1, 2012 8:15pm
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i'll bring something to carve next week, phyn - you can watch me. it's kind of both. i turn the material, and i turn the knife or gouge in my hand. . . kinda hard to explain.

i also use the stazon, so you'll see that too.

~tigs(also an in-the-hand carver)