![]() Some people use the v-tool-starting shallow and going deeper until the "vee" reaches the width of the letter. Then when done, I just peel away the pattern. I cut a relief v-cut down the center, and then workwork my way out to the perimeter of the letter. I prefer to use a good bench knife-actually an old putty knife that I mitered and sharpen. Using a thinned out glue or rubber cement, past the letter on the block. Then if I see it, I know it's the original, and not to use it as a pattern that's going to get cut up. I usually write the word "original" or "master" in red ink on the keeper. Make a couple of copies, and keep one as the master. Worse comes to worse, check out the calligraphy books at the library, find a letter style that you like and that'll be easy to carve, and copy and enlarge to the size you want. There's a lot of different ways to do create the patterns depending on the software you have, the computer hardware, and then your expertise to use them. ![]() You can also print at 72 pt., scan into computer as an image, then enlarge with a photo editing program. So if you want 1 1/2" letters, print out 72 pt. Use a copy machine to make them bigger-usually the biggest you'll get from a word processor is 3/4" or 72 pt. If you're doing incised letters-letters cut into the wood, then you can print out a pattern using a word processor or even Wordpad-try using times new roman, and type and print out the letters you want.
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