A different way of transfering

[Terrezar]

I have been reading a little about transfering engraving, and figured out I'd give it a go. I found myself a blob of beewax, and a bit of clear tape, but I had no colour to do the transfer with, so I used soot, out of all things...

I heated the bit that I would apply the pattern to, and coverd it with the melted wax, letting it cool and harden. Then, using a small lit candle, I covered the pice i was to copy from with a thick layer of soot. Tape was applyed, and then reapplyed to the wax, before rubbing it all gentely with my polishing steel.

The soot stuck nicely to the wax, and it gave a good negative of the original engraving. All that was left to do was to spray it with some hairspray, and engrave it.

I have added a few pictures, where I have used the same trick to mirror the pattern, also works for that, although it need a lot of soot on the original engraving to be enough for the final transfer.



The soot transfer produces a negative of the engraving, unlike most other kinds of transfer.




Just sprayed it with hairspray. The picture does not do the transfer full justice, although I do think that a proper transfer solution would have made a better result.


And the finished work. All done with palm push, and my hopefully developing skills. Sorry about the bad picture.

 

[don hicks]

When I saw the background in your photos, it made me feel nostalgic for my bench, (organization and tidiness not being my forte).No disrespect intended, it's good to see that everyone's bench top doesn't look like it was staged for the photos. Thanks for posting.
Regards
Don

 

[LVVP]

Interesting method, thanks

 

[Terrezar]

When I saw the background in your photos, it made me feel nostalgic for my bench, (organization and tidiness not being my forte).No disrespect intended, it's good to see that everyone's bench top doesn't look like it was staged for the photos. Thanks for posting.
Regards
Don

Good to hear there are more of us out there. I am not a tidy person, and my workshop shows this clearly. I do sorta think it makes the place somewhat cosy, as well, and I know that I feel plenty at home in my little shop.

 

[monk]

i first became aware of smoke prints some years ago. roger bleile visited me, and amongst other things, he showed me how to do smoke pulls (i think that;s what he called them), and i truly thought that was unbelievable magic ! . i ended up smoking virtually everything i did for about 5 years. i kept the prints in a huge ledger book used by a bank. not sure what happened to the book, but i'd donate my gray hair to find it. the pulls are very useful for transfers, and also are an excellent way to preserve your work,without color distraction, and is exactly 1:1 buy a tin of sams' transfer wax. it's a good formula, and you don't need to melt it. just a thin layer applied with your finger does the trick.