I need to trace out quite a few of the same pattern to silver with the diamond drag for hand cutting.
It is for a logo with some lettering. I have a New Hermes IX-4 or something like that, which I bought on Ebay quite some time ago for not much. The last time I did something like this, I printed out a 4X pattern on the printer and glued it to a piece of plexi, then cut the outline of it with a square graver with the Gravermeister. Then being very careful, since the groove was not too deep, used that pattern with a 45 degree cutting head in the Hermes on 2:1 made a template with a very nice groove on another piece of plexi which gave me a deeper groove for the trace point to follow, that became my pattern. That pattern allowed for numerous sizes of the same pattern. Cutting through the paper wasn't that bad, but not terribly accurate.
My question is, how could I best transfer my printed image to the plexi? I have both inkjet and laser options available.
Thanks!
JB
It is for a logo with some lettering. I have a New Hermes IX-4 or something like that, which I bought on Ebay quite some time ago for not much. The last time I did something like this, I printed out a 4X pattern on the printer and glued it to a piece of plexi, then cut the outline of it with a square graver with the Gravermeister. Then being very careful, since the groove was not too deep, used that pattern with a 45 degree cutting head in the Hermes on 2:1 made a template with a very nice groove on another piece of plexi which gave me a deeper groove for the trace point to follow, that became my pattern. That pattern allowed for numerous sizes of the same pattern. Cutting through the paper wasn't that bad, but not terribly accurate.
My question is, how could I best transfer my printed image to the plexi? I have both inkjet and laser options available.
Thanks!
JB