[Woodcarver] Book publishing specifications - chat

[Classic Carving Patterns]

I learned the newspaper trick when I was sign painting way back when.
You use the darkest print pages you can find, usually the want ads and
tape sheets of newspaper together to make great huge pieces that go
behind your pattern.  I use newspaper whenever the work surface is
extremely large, as with the 4' x 8' signs.  It saves a great deal of
worrying over around moving smaller transfer sheets in the hopes that
you 'got it all'.  So with the Sunday ad section I have more than enough
newspaper pages to create a single 4 x 8 tracing sheet.

Newspaper, of course, does not provide a solid tracing line.  But what
it does transfer is clear enough that a little pencil work pulls
everything together.  It also is great for painted surfaces as enameled
boards as the printer's ink is a easily removed by rubbing it with your
fingers.

Dress maker's carbon is also a favorite when I am working on dark
blackish surfaces.   This paper is used to mark sewing notations to
fabric so comes in a range of colors ... Red, yellow, white.  Where
regular carbon paper lines can get lost against a dark wood as aged
black walnut white dress makers carbon clearly shows.  There are also
white carbons for crafters but I have found the paper itself to be a bit
thin and flimsy to my taste.  I do use crafter's white for paper work
... Transferring rough designs to better paper for inking.  But it does
not seem to work as well for me on wood surfaces.

Susan

P. S.  It's a sad thought when even secretaries don't know what carbon
paper is ....

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