Tracing lines on to wood

Congratulations... you invented carbon paper!

I guess you're too young to have ever seen carbon paper, huh?

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

Get a copy of my NEW AND IMPROVED TrollFilter for NewsProxy/Nfilter by sending email to autoresponder at filterinfo-at-milmac-dot-com You must use your REAL email address to get a response.

I think you have to be over 50 to use carbon paper.

I'm not quite there yet, but I certainly remember it. Haven't used it for a while, but I'm sure I still have a few sheets hanging around somewhere.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

Get a copy of my NEW AND IMPROVED TrollFilter for NewsProxy/Nfilter by sending email to autoresponder at filterinfo-at-milmac-dot-com You must use your REAL email address to get a response.

Well, I'm a baker's dozen shy of 50, and we used it in my Typing I class in high school.

todd

My God, do they still even make carbon paper? I found some at the office the other day and some of the younger clerks didn't even know what it was.

Fred

My hobby is restoring antique radios and often there is a situation where some wood, strips across a speaker grill come to mind, have to be replaced. If you can't find the exact wood you could;

Paint a piece of wood a light yellow-brown color. Find your woodgrain on the internet and print it out in black and white. Use this method to trace the woodgrain on the paper. Otherwise the grain lines have to be painted by hand. Add some spray toner if needed and apply your finish

(and I reply) Thanks for the additional information. First time around you gave us a solution to a problem we didn' tknow we had. Now you have supplied us with a great tip for restoration work or specialty decorative trim. Ed

When's the last time you've seen a bottle of "White Out"?

There's a new product that makes "white-out" look dark ages, it's like "correct-tape" with its own dispenser". It's handy for things like envelopes or fixing handwriting mistakes.

Nah, I'm 36 and I remember using it when I was 10 or 12.

Most all the replies here have said, "That's carbon paper." Thought at 45 I am old enough to have used (and probably still have in several boxes ) carbon paper, I think you came up with something novel and different.

- Your technique puts the transfer agent where it is needed; carbon paper always left smudges all over my seconds.

- I've only seen carbon paper in 8.5" x 11" sheets. Your technique is limited only by the size of the paper. I own a printer that can print 24" wide by a mile long. Tom Plamann (an inspiration to us all ) has a printer that can make a printout 54" wide by a mile long.

Thanks for thinking. I saved your post. ;-)

-- Mark

Yes, they still make carbon paper. But the place(s) to look for it are in fabric stores, craft stores and Woodcraft. I particularly like the stuff that comes from fabric stores since it comes in multiple colors.

--RC

"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells 'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets fly with a club. -- John W. Cambell Jr.

Woodcraft has carbon paper is much larger sheets for tracing woodworking projects.

--RC

"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells 'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets fly with a club. -- John W. Cambell Jr.

Wrong, I'm 44 and remember it well. :)

Go to a fabric store. 36" wide by however long a roll is.

I'm still surprised. ;-) The OP came up with a DIY method that: - is super cheap. - doesn't require aligning another layer. - doesn't have the possibility of putting marks where not intended. - is trivially easy to store.

IMO xRECers should be doing cartwheels about the OP's brainstorm.

-- Mark

"Original" poster.