Hi Alex: To engrave a sundial drawing or other artwork onto wood, stone or metal, I first glue the paper drawing onto the surface with water soluble white glue (I use Elmers). This is like gluing wallpaper. Use a roller. When the glue is dry, then I waterproof the drawing with polyurethane (but you can use any varnish). When dry, I use my engraving tools to cut through the paper into the wood, stone or metal then I remove what's left of the paper using course sandpaper and a palm sander and/or a brush with water (for wood or stone) or by simply soaking for one hour in water (for metal). Of course, you don't want to remove the paper from metal with sandpaper or brush or you will scratch the metal. (Before I found out that I could use sandpaper to remove the paper, I used to soak my sundials in the swimming pool which didn't make me very popular at home!)
If you'd like more information on how I make my sundials I can send you an attachment of an article I wrote for Dec. '99 The Compendium. John >Hi John and all- > >While you are at it -- what is the best way to transfer the large printouts >from paper to the actual material the sundial will be made of -- stone, >metal, timber or whatever - > >alex > >At 10:52 04/06/2000, John Carmichael wrote: >>Hi Ron, Bob, Steve & all: >> >>I'm so glad that so many dialers on the List will soon be using DeltaCad. I >>absolutely love it! It's much easier to use than I imagined. Thanks again >>Ron, for going the extra mile to order and front the money to buy all those >>copies for everyone. Hopefully, DeltaCad will become the standard drawing >>program for us dialers. This will greatly facilitate communication and >>learning among us. >> >>But the recent discussion concerning printouts of DeltaCad drawings has me >>frustrated again. Half of the discussion for possible solutions sound like >>a foreign language to me. And I thought, "Oh no, here we go again, another >>stumbling block, more programs to buy and procedures to learn!" >> >>I'm making hardcopies of this discussion for future reference. In the >>meantime, I'm just going to sit back and monitor your thoughts. Hopefully, >>eventually those of you with more plotting and printing knowledge and >>experience can come up with easy step-by-step instructions that we can use >>for obtaining DeltaCad drawing files that are acceptable to our local print >>shops. >> >>Please keep at it and give the solution to this problem top priority, as I >>think that obtaining large prints from DeltaCad will become an extremely >>important part of sundial production for many sundial makers. >> >>Thanks from all of us deltacadettes. >> >>John Carmichael >>Tucson Arizona >> > >********************* >"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!" <html> ><font size=3>Hi John and all- <br> ><br> >While you are at it -- what is the best way to transfer the large >printouts from paper to the actual material the sundial will be made of >-- stone, metal, timber or whatever -<br> ><br> >alex<br> ><br> >At 10:52 04/06/2000, John Carmichael wrote:<br> ><blockquote type=cite cite>Hi Ron, Bob, Steve & all:<br> ><br> >I'm so glad that so many dialers on the List will soon be using >DeltaCad. I<br> >absolutely love it! It's much easier to use than I imagined. >Thanks again<br> >Ron, for going the extra mile to order and front the money to buy all >those<br> >copies for everyone. Hopefully, DeltaCad will become the standard >drawing<br> >program for us dialers. This will greatly facilitate communication >and<br> >learning among us.<br> ><br> >But the recent discussion concerning printouts of DeltaCad drawings has >me<br> >frustrated again. Half of the discussion for possible solutions >sound like<br> >a foreign language to me. And I thought, "Oh no, here we go >again, another<br> >stumbling block, more programs to buy and procedures to >learn!"<br> ><br> >I'm making hardcopies of this discussion for future reference. In >the<br> >meantime, I'm just going to sit back and monitor your thoughts. >Hopefully,<br> >eventually those of you with more plotting and printing knowledge >and<br> >experience can come up with easy step-by-step instructions that we can >use<br> >for obtaining DeltaCad drawing files that are acceptable to our local >print<br> >shops.<br> ><br> >Please keep at it and give the solution to this problem top priority, as >I<br> >think that obtaining large prints from DeltaCad will become an >extremely<br> >important part of sundial production for many sundial makers.<br> ><br> >Thanks from all of us deltacadettes.<br> ><br> >John Carmichael<br> >Tucson Arizona<br> ><br> ></font></blockquote><br> ><div>*********************</div> >"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the >cheese!" ></html> >
