transfer wax

[Weldon47]

Fingerprint ink

1. It works very well.

2. You can reverse print with it
(stick a piece of tape down with the sticky side up, lift the pattern & apply to the stuck down piece & then discard the first piece of tape. Pull up the stuck down piece of tape & there's the mirror image ready to transfer).

3. Yep, it's messy.... Wear nitrile gloves or not

4.can also be used for ink & bake

WL

 

[dlilazteca]

Fingerprint ink

1. It works very well.

2. You can reverse print with it
(stick a piece of tape down with the sticky side up, lift the pattern & apply to the stuck down piece & then discard the first piece of tape. Pull up the stuck down piece of tape & there's the mirror image ready to transfer).

3. Yep, it's messy.... Wear nitrile gloves or not

4.can also be used for ink & bake

WL

what brand do you recommend

Saludos,

Carlos

 

[Weldon47]

I knew you'd ask....

 

[dlilazteca]

I ordered me a Tube I remember you mentioning you also use it for your background I definitely want to try something different I'm not liking the Rustoleum paint, now i have two uses for it

Saludos,

Carlos

 

[dlilazteca]

Weldon,

How rude of me I forgot to say congratulations for making the cover of the engraver magazine

Saludos,

Carlos

 

[Andrew Biggs]

For some reason I've never had much luck with the wax method.

So I use speedball printers ink. Like Weldon says, it's messy but it works perfectly. One tube goes a very long way.

Pretty much any artists black tube oil based paint will do it. The trick is for it not to be super fast drying.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[monk]

for those wishing to try the better inks for transfer, the ink weldon showed-- less commonly available, but good. most "art suppliers" have oil-based grumbacher or windsor &newton paint.. note-- these are oil based, not the fast dry acrylics. one tube will outlast 2 or 3 engravers, with some left over for the great grand kids.

 

[FANCYGUN]

I have been using the oil base BLOCK PRINTING in from speedball. i used to use printing ink that they used to use for the old offset presses. The ink had a stickiness to it that made it work great.

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Marty

Just checked the label on my tube and it is indeed the block printing ink from Speedball.

John B sent me a tube years ago and I still have 3/4 of it left. I think it will outlast me by the looks of it

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Weldon47]

Many inks will do a direct transfer however, very few will let you reverse print... The fingerprint ink I posted will & that's a real time saver!

WL

 

[FANCYGUN]

Weldon
I found that the old fingerprint ink is a whole lot tackier than the newer ink. How tacky is yours? Perhaps i have just been using the wrong brands. A good ink for reverse printing is hard to get

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Weldon

Yip, the Speedball block printing ink does the reverse prints just fine. I use it all the time for that.

Next time I'm in the USA I will get some of the fingerprint ink you have shown.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Dave London]

MTC
Tip I picked up from Daniel Houwer, for SAMs wax a very light coat kind of dab on to help eliminate glare of bright metal

 

[Brian Marshall]

Dust on a little cornstarch over a light coat of wax.

We keep a jar of cornstarch with a makeup brush stuffed in it - right next to the bottle of pink fingernail polish...


B.

 

[Weldon47]

I use talc for setting the ink transfer. That fixes it so it won't smudge,
WL

 

[dlilazteca]

Dust on a little cornstarch over a light coat of wax.

We keep a jar of cornstarch with a makeup brush stuffed in it - right next to the bottle of pink fingernail polish...


B.

what are guys doing over they're?

Saludos,

Carlos

 

[Brian Marshall]

Same thing you are Carlos, or was that Mitch?...

Weldon, look up the MSDS on the talc - we used to use it, but you can EAT cornstarch without even gettin' a bellyache, so we went to that.


Brian

 

[tundratrekers@mtaonline.n]

Talc powder is "now" known to cause cancer.

Johnson & johnson is on the chopping block for causing an number of different female specific cancers in the reproductive organs.

michael

 

[Brian Marshall]

How many babies' butts got powdered with the stuff 40, 50, 60+ years ago?


Brian

 

[Weldon47]

Marty: it's somewhat tacky (more than you are). More so the longer it sits out.

Andrew: that's good info on the speedball ink, thanks!

Brian: well.... That stinks! I was not aware of that, thank you for letting me know. I tried cornstarch & a bunch of other stuff last year but couldn't find anything that I thought would replace or work as good as talc. Bought mine at a beauty supply place.....probably not the only thing there that causes cancer!!