[TheForge] How do you do this?

[Raymond Miller]

An opaque projector or a simple pantograph.
The old Bessler opaque projectors we all remember from grade school are 
out there fairly reasonable.
Project the detailed image on a board, etc. and trace away.

Ray Miller
Cincinnati

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 10:10 PM, H and P Foster wrote:

>
> What I'm asking is what do folks do to bring their little sketches on 
> scraps
> of paper up to a point where the size is life size and you have a good
> pattern to work by in the shop.
>
> I have up to now redone my sketches onto graph paper and when happy 
> with the
> proportions etc, got out the large brown paper, drew many larger 
> squares and
> then redrew the smaller drawing onto the larger paper.  This works ok, 
> but
> is time consuming to say the least.
>
> Now I have found that I can scan the refined sketch on graph paper, 
> bring
> the size up to what you want the finished product to be and save that 
> file.
> Then open it in a program like Adobe Illustrator, which gives you the
> ability to do tile printing of your file, no matter what the size, and 
> then
> one just joins and tapes together all the pages for your working shop
> drawing.
>
> I'm sure there are other ways to do this, and with other programs, and 
> that
> is what I would like to know.
>
> Harry
> Rusty Dog Forge
> Pontiac, Quebec,  and not nearly so cold.
>
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